“With respect, we are all Jewish dykes here and we just want to march in solidarity with Palestinian dykes, and if y’all want to march also, great.” “In order to have the Jewish Pride flag not be about Zionism, all you have to do is move the star,” Raney told a group of Jewish marchers holding the flags. Jewish stars were welcome in any other context. In video taken of the event, Jill Raney, a marshal also affiliated with the left-wing Jewish group IfNotNow, said they could enter if they removed the Star of David from the flag.

Some would-be marchers carrying the Jewish Pride flag were blocked by Jewish marshals at an entrance point to the march. There was no such ban on Palestinian flags. The march banned the flags of countries with “specific oppressive tendencies.” The flags of Israel and the United States were the only two mentioned specifically in the ban. the next day, said it was banning the flag because it looks too much like the flag of Israel. The march, a leftist alternative to the main LGBTQ parade in Washington, D.C. A handful of protesters carrying Jewish Pride flags, a rainbow-striped flag with a Star of David in the middle, were allowed into the DC Dyke March despite a ban on the flags.