Anti-Zionism is a feminist issue ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Anti-Zionism is a feminist issue

Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography is dedicating a special issue to the "Palestinian genocide" saying it is a feminist issue.

Interestingly, as far as I can tell, the entire journal have not once criticized the Palestinian Authority or Hamas for their failure to uphold women's rights - but it has criticized Israel plenty of times.

Here is are some of the anti-women laws on the books in Palestinian law, today, that discriminate against women:

More details from UNFPA here.

By constantly conflating "Palestine" with progressive causes, the causes are not merely being hypocritical. They are helping to promote the very injustices that they pretend to care about. As long as no one calls out Palestinian laws that violate women's rights, gay rights. animal rights, the environment and all the other causes that progressives hold dear, they prove that they don't really care about any of those causes as much as they want to attack Israel.

Palestinian women (and others) lose.

The "State of Palestine" acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), without reservation, in 2014. Yet it has not done anything to actually become compliant with CEDAW in at least the last 7 years.

In other words, it signed an international convention but never had any intention of following it. In fact, PA government officials have denounced CEDAW.

The only reason the PLO signed many international conventions that they do not adhere to was to help them join the ICC so they could use political means to attack Israel.

Which tells you exactly how much a Palestinian state can be trusted to fulfill any agreement it signs.

And feminist silence over the many anti-woman laws on the books in the Palestinian Authority tells you exactly how much they truly care about women's rights under Palestinian rule.

Here's a headline from another recent gender studies journal.