"The national Sunrise Movement, an environmental advocacy group, said that a statement by its Washington DC chapter was 'unacceptable and antisemitic' because it called for disassociating from progressive Jewish organizations for their Israel policies.
'To be clear, Sunrise DC’s statement and actions are not in line with our values,' the Sunrise Movement said Friday on Twitter. 'Singling out Jewish organizations for removal from a coalition, despite others holding similar views, is antisemitic and unacceptable.'
Sunrise DC this week called for the removal of three progressive Jewish groups from a voting rights coalition: the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center (RAC) and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
The affiliate cited their Israel ties and policies, even though several non-Jewish groups in the coalition shared many of their stances toward Israel.
That brought condemnations from Jewish organizations, as well as calls on the national Sunrise movement to distance itself from its Washington DC chapter...
The national movement on Thursday said that it had not seen the DC affiliate’s statement and went on to vaguely oppose antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism in a statement, without taking a position outright on Sunrise DC’s call to boycott the Jewish groups.
That infuriated the Reform movement’s RAC, which called the national Sunrise movement’s equivocation 'shameful.'
The national movement’s change in tone on Friday, with the direct invocation of 'antisemitism,' appeared to come after the Jewish groups targeted by Sunrise DC made representations to the national movement..."