GWU’s campus Democrats, feminists slam Women’s March

‘We cannot in good conscience support the organization’

Liberal student groups at the George Washington University recently distanced themselves from the controversial Women’s March, slamming the event and the organization behind it for its support of anti-Semitic figures and causes.

Both the Feminist Student Union and the GW College Democrats refused to attend the march last weekend “over allegations of anti-Semitism from the march’s leaders,” The GW Hatchet reports.

The groups’ decisions was part of a nationwide backlash against the Women’s March, motivated in part by the March’s co-president associating with and praising a known anti-Semite.

Members of the Feminist Student Union had been “grappling with the many allegations surrounding the march,” the group said in a statement, and the group ultimately decided not to attend, writing: “Comprehensive and cohesive movements, such as the Women’s March, have the capacity to make effective change, but we cannot support these actions unless they are extended to all identities.”

The school’s College Democrats, meanwhile, noted that, while “comprehensive and cohesive movements, such as the Women’s March, have the capacity to make effective change…we cannot support these actions unless they are extended to all identities:”