ABSTRACT
In recent years, since 2017, there has been an outcry from numerous quarters of the political spectrum regarding the proliferating use of intersectionality in social movements and political organizing. Decrying intersectional organizing that insists on connecting apparently “unrelated struggles,” proponents of this critique bemoan the conflation of domestic or local issues about racial economic and social justice with a “foreign conflict.” In December 2018 controversy about Zionist feminists erupted amongst the organizers of the Women's March in D.C., an event formerly led by Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour who have both been denounced as anti-Semitic from both conservative and liberal quarters. In all cases, the commitment to and hailing of intersectionality is deigned the culprit responsible for the exclusions of these political positions, rather than the politics of these positions themselves being the cause of the exclusion.
