🟦✡️🏳️🌈🇮🇱
in #PRIDE
Rabbi Menachem Creditor
Not a rhetorical question. A broken-hearted, passionate cry.
Jewish people have always been part of the LGBTQ+ movement.
We’ve marched. Led. Fought. Died. Loved.
Think Harvey Milk. Edie Windsor. Idit Klein. So many more.
Proud Jews. Proud Queer. Proud Allies.
But this year, something’s broken.
Zionism—our commitment to our ancestral home—is being twisted.
We’re told:
“You can come—but not as Jews.”
“Your pride is okay, but your people are not.”
Let’s get real:
📍Zionism is not colonialism.
🇮🇱 Israel is not a metaphor.
🕊️ Jewish people are not occupiers of our own story.
Our return to our land is the only successful anti-colonial project in human history.
That doesn’t make us perfect. It makes us responsible.
For justice. For dignity. For peace.
To exile Jews from PRIDE is to betray the very meaning of PRIDE.
PRIDE means visibility.
PRIDE means no shame.
PRIDE means love—for everyone.
If your liberation requires our erasure, it’s not liberation.
✡️🏳️🌈 We’re still here. We’re still loud. We’re still proud. We’re not leaving.
#AmYisraelChai #JewishAndProud #Pride2025 #QueerJewishPride #LoveIsLove #ZionismIsJustice #NoPrideInErasure
Rabbi Menachem Creditor
Not a rhetorical question. A broken-hearted, passionate cry.
Jewish people have always been part of the LGBTQ+ movement.
We’ve marched. Led. Fought. Died. Loved.
Think Harvey Milk. Edie Windsor. Idit Klein. So many more.
Proud Jews. Proud Queer. Proud Allies.
But this year, something’s broken.
Zionism—our commitment to our ancestral home—is being twisted.
We’re told:
“You can come—but not as Jews.”
“Your pride is okay, but your people are not.”
Let’s get real:
📍Zionism is not colonialism.
🇮🇱 Israel is not a metaphor.
🕊️ Jewish people are not occupiers of our own story.
Our return to our land is the only successful anti-colonial project in human history.
That doesn’t make us perfect. It makes us responsible.
For justice. For dignity. For peace.
To exile Jews from PRIDE is to betray the very meaning of PRIDE.
PRIDE means visibility.
PRIDE means no shame.
PRIDE means love—for everyone.
If your liberation requires our erasure, it’s not liberation.
✡️🏳️🌈 We’re still here. We’re still loud. We’re still proud. We’re not leaving.
#AmYisraelChai #JewishAndProud #Pride2025 #QueerJewishPride #LoveIsLove #ZionismIsJustice #NoPrideInErasure