NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov Quits Women’s Caucus Over Anti-Israel, 'Woke' Agenda

A Brooklyn lawmaker is quitting the City Council’s Women’s Caucus to protest its “anti-Israel” agenda and “woke” ways. GOP Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, 40, called out the 30-member caucus in a nearly 90-second video for its refusal to condemn Hamas terrorists after the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in Israel and for catering to far-left gender ideologues.  

“How can I condemn and call out all these women organizations who’ve stayed completely silent [after the massacre] but continue sitting in a body that’s supposed to stand up for women’s rights, that’s supposed to stand against the abuse and rape and captivity of women, but cannot do that when it comes to Jewish women?” Vernikov says in the clip.  

The video includes footage of young, terrified Jewish women as they’re released from Hamas captivity by masked men with weapons. In the clip, Vernikov calls the Hamas captors “Jihadis.”  

She also pointed to the caucus’ bylaws allowing council members to join who “identify as women” — leaving the door open to transgender biological men joining the group. The bylaws also say the caucus “seeks to advance” both “women and women-identifying people’s rights.” 

“This is a Women’s Caucus that obviously cannot agree on what a woman is,” she says in the video. “I will not remain on a body that refuses to acknowledge objective truths and that will only stand up for women when it is politically expedient for them. I’m out,” she concludes. (NYP/VFI News)

And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female…?’” - Matthew 19:4