Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) While campaigning for president in Iowa on Saturday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand condemned anti-Semitism at one of the several women's marches taking place across the country, addressing the allegations roiling the national Women's March, Inc. organization.

"We know there is no room for anti-Semitism in our movement. We know this," Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, said. "We know that our movement is empowered when all of us lift each other up."

Women's March, Inc. has been under fire leading up to the third annual Women's March in Washington, DC, taking place on Saturday, following accusations of anti-Semitism due to some organizers' association with Louis Farrakhan. The Iowa women's march event on Saturday in Des Moines was not run by an official chapter of Women's March, Inc.

Farrakhan, who has led the black nationalist group since 1977, is known for hyperbolic hate speech aimed at the Jewish community, and made remarks such as "the powerful Jews are my enemy" last February.

Both Tamika Mallory and Carmen Perez, co-chairs of the Women's March, have posted photos on Instagram of themselves with Farrakhan. Linda Sarsour, another Women's March leader, spoke at a rally headlined by Farrakhan in 2015.

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