American-Israelis to hold anti-Trump sister rally in Tel Aviv
Americans living in Israel may have slightly favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in November’s 2016 US presidential election, according to at least one poll. But that leaves a large contingent of American-Israelis whose reaction to Trump’s victory ranged from disappointment to devastation.
Hundreds of unhappy American-Israelis are expected to attend a rally in front of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, January 21, in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington, a massive protest scheduled to take place that morning in Washington, DC, whose stated mission is “to send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights.”
The local event, dubbed the Tel Aviv Sister Rally to the Women’s March on Washington, is being organized by Pantsuit Nation Israel, a Facebook group with over 1,200 mostly female members that is an Israeli spinoff of the invitation-only Facebook group by the same name used by Hillary Clinton supporters during the 2016 campaign.
Pantsuit Nation Israel was launched by Mindy Goldberg, a 33-year-old resident of Modiin who works as a fundraiser for social change organizations in Israel. When Goldberg realized on the morning of November 9 that Trump had won the election, she was surprised and dismayed.
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