Outspoken Women’s March supporters Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) may soon face backlash after a revealing new article has highlighted bigotry and other serious issues associated with the leadership of that group — issues present since its founding, according to the account.

The article appeared in The Tablet on Monday and is titled, “Is the Women’s March Melting Down?” It includes some shocking realities about the core principles of the group’s leadership. In the article, two reporters reveal a dark underside, including an embrace of the notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham questioned why Democrats Gillibrand and Harris have escaped serious media questioning, given their ties to the group.

“The only thing that keeps the Democratic base together is for them to keep focusing on white men [as] the ones keeping you down. You must hate white men. It’s the one thing they all have in common,” responded conservative commentator Ann Coulter on “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday night.

“Some of the founders of the march themselves are very concerned about this anti-Semitic taint within the organization,” Ingraham noted.

“This is a silly nonstarter by conservatives trying to split a movement that they know is extremely powerful, and they’re afraid of this next march coming up because they know it will get even more women, progressive women, into office just like it did in this last election,” retorted criminal defense attorney Ladawn Jones.

Jones was responding to a quote from Mercy Morganfield in the Tablet article; she said Women’s March leaders had long used Nation of Islam to provide their security. “Bob [Bland] called me secretly and said, ‘Mercy, they have been in bed with the Nation of Islam since day one: They do all of our security.’”

There were issues straight out of the gate with the Women’s March group, the article noted; the issues were serious and worsened over time.

“As the women were opening up about their backgrounds and personal investments in creating a resistance movement to Trump, [Carmen] Perez and [Tamika] Mallory allegedly first asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people — and even, according to a close secondhand source, claimed that Jews were proven to have been leaders of the American slave trade,” the Tablet reporters wrote, describing an initial meeting of March organizers in Manhattan in November 2016.

Mallory and Bland, among the group’s current leaders, deny the remarks.

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Anyone who opposes racial and religious hatred would run for cover after reading the piece about the leaders’ beliefs. Those who prize transparency also will be shocked and dismayed.

Last month, Teresa Shook, the woman who actually founded the movement, called on Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez, and Bob Bland to step down, saying the leadership had “steered the movement away from its true course.”

“They have allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs,” Shook said in a Facebook post some three weeks ago.

Sen. Gillibrand was one of many Democrat politicians who gushed about the Women’s March at its inception. “The Women’s March was the most inspiring and transformational moment I’ve ever witnessed in politics. It was a joyful day of clarity and a lightning bolt of awakening for so many women and men who demanded to be heard,” Gillibrand wrote last year in Time magazine.

“And it happened because four extraordinary women — Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour — had the courage to take on something big, important and urgent, and never gave up. Because of their hard work, millions of people got off the sidelines … This is the rebirth of the women’s movement. These women are the suffragists of our time,” Gillibrand added.

Gillibrand was not alone in her praise or her support, of course.

Now-presumed 2020 presidential contender Harris was also on board; she was among dozens who spoke to the many pink hat-wearing attendees at the march in Washington after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

“It’s going to be harder before it gets easier. I know we will rise to the challenge and I know we will keep fighting no matter what,” said the lawmaker, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.

“This was a day for us all to come together in our nation’s capital … Let’s buckle in because it’s going to be a bumpy ride,” Harris added at the time.

On a related note, Harris shared thoughts on how to advance women’s causes in a tweet last Sunday — one that quickly became the subject of laughter and some pretty merciless memes.

“We know that if we want to live in a world that looks more like Wakanda, the first step is you invest in some women and girls,” Harris wrote.

Laudable as Harris’ intent may have been, Marvel Universe’s fictional, ancient, high-tech women-headed, African society of Wakanada seen in “Black Panther” lies protected behind a wall.

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Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and regular contributor to LifeZette.