This is the best piece I've read on this controversy, especially in its attempt to contextualize it in the complicated history of the relationship between African Americans and American Jews. I will offer two comments:
The intersectional left will continue to have this problem because if racism is prejudice plus power, the fact that Jews have economic, political, and social power will exclude them from being seen as victims of a form of racism. The article uses the phrase "punching up" and while I don't like that framing, the point is correct. Given the centuries of anti-Semitism and millions of lives extinguished within the last century alone, the fact that intersectionality makes it difficult to see Jews also as victims of racism points to a real weakness in that approach. After all, shouldn't the idea that we have multiple criss-crossing identities include the possibility that Jews can, in some contexts, have power and in other contexts be victims of others' combination of prejudice and power?
Any movement claiming the name "social justice" that refuses to cleanly and clearly distance itself from the crude, blatant anti-Semitism of Farrakhan is not worthy of that name. This isn't subtle or complicated. He is invoking the oldest and crudest forms of anti-Semitism. In THAT way, it's worse than the "blood and soil" dog whistles from some corners of the right. This can't be written off as trolling or game playing. This is precisely what Jews have dealt with and fought against for years. And it's, frankly, the same sort of thing we see with disturbing frequency in the wider progressive anti-Israel movement.
In a world where anti-Semitism is on the rise by those with real political power and where the significant majority of religious hate crimes are against Jews, progressives should not have this problem. And for us Jews, choosing among the country club anti-Semitism of old-school conservatives, the kids-in-the-ovens memes and harassment of the alt-right, and the lauding of a blatant anti-Semite like Farrakhan by the left, isn't much of a choice at all. (And lord knows, libertarianism isn't that safe of a harbor these days...)
Until the Women's March recognizes this problem (and that, in the true spirit of intersectionality, it might particularly bother JEWISH WOMEN), they will continue to demonstrate where their priorities are. Nothing short of a clear repudiation and distancing is enough to make a shift in those priorities clear.