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Sunday, June 11, 2023

This two year old Palestinian boy was brutally murdered. There will be no mention of it in the NYT or by NGOs.

There was a heinous crime in Gaza this weekend.A two and a half year old child, Mustafa Nahed Muhammad Saqr, was drowned in a barrel of water.His stepmother admitted to the murder. She was jealous that she couldn't have children of her own so she decided to murder her husband's child to avoid that feeling of shame. It was a twist on honor killing.There were reports in...

Some statistics on violence against Palestinian women

A report in Amad says that, somehow, the "Israeli occupation" has the biggest violent effects on Palestinian women.But then, in a distant second place, it mentions real statistics on violence against Palestinian women - from Palestinian men.In 2015, 15 killings of Palestinian women and girls were monitored and documented, while 18 other killings were documented during 2016,...

Beyond parody: Anti-Israel groups try to get LGBTQ, feminist orgs to support Palestinian gay bashers and misogynists

From The Left Berlin:Here we reproduce two draft e-mails which have been suggested by the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) coordination team of the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP). ECCP is a network of 43 European organisations, NGOs, trade unions and solidarity groups from 18 European countries, dedicated to the struggle...

Palestinian media censor story of gay man kidnapped, beheaded

Times of Israel reports:A gay Palestinian man living under asylum in Israel was murdered and beheaded Wednesday in the West Bank city of Hebron. The unnamed suspect, who was arrested by Palestinian Authority police near the scene of the crime soon after committing it, recorded the act in a video that he uploaded to social media before his capture.The victim was 25-year-old...

Gaza women join Arab protest against femicide and "honor killings" - but must include the mandatory anti-Israel angle

There have been some shocking murders of women in the Arab world recently, such as that of Nayera Ashraf, 21, stabbed to death in broad daylight in Egypt by a man whose marriage proposal she rejected, and Iman Arsheed, a Jordanian nursing student shot multiple times for similar reasons. In response, women throughout the Arab world called a general strike for two...

On #InternationalwomensDay, hypocritical "pro-Palestinian" groups don't give a damn about Palestinian women's rights

Today is International Women's Day. As usual, "pro-Palestinian" groups are using it as a means for anti-Israel propaganda. Yet not one is calling for more women's rights under Palestinian rule.As we've mentioned before, the Palestinian Authority cynically uses women's rights as a weapon against Israel but really doesn't care about rights for its own women.It joined...

"Palestinian Feminist Working Group" shows no interest in women's rights for Palestinians

A recent Mondoweiss article by the "Palestinian Feminist Working Group" sheds some light on how hate for Israel is often disguised using liberal buzzwords that have nothing to do with the actual agenda of these groups.The article is typically ridiculous - it pretends that Zoom, YouTube and Facebook's pulling the plug on a conference featuring a proud terrorist Leila Khaled...

Is it even possible to be a pro-Palestinian feminist?

This article in The Nation is being reported all over: Her arguments are really nutty, but Sarsour knows how to get publicity. So let's use her own methodology to ask whether it is possible for Linda Sarsour, or anyone else, to be a feminist while supporting Palestinian Arabs. According to the UN, there are no specific laws or provisions in the Palestinian Authority...

Abbas lied: "Honor killings" still treated leniently in PA

In 2010, the PA cabinet reclassified "honor killings" to be considered murder. It is unclear if this made any difference in the actual law. In 2011, to much fanfare, Abbas claimed to remove the leniencies in existing PA law (based on Jordan's penal code) that would make "honor killing" a reason for a lighter sentence when killing a family member. Significantly, it still...

"Honor killings" increasing dramatically in PalArab areas

The rate of women being murdered in the West Bank and Gaza has increased dramatically even over last year's high numbers. In 2013, there were 27 women killed, which was double the number killed in 2012. In less than five months this year, however, 18 women have been murdered - 13 in the West Bank and 5 in Gaza. At this rate, the number of women killed - usually under the...

European NGO blames Israel for Gaza men beating, abusing their wives

The Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights has released a laughably biased and inaccurate report about the situation of women in Gaza. As we have seen before, anti-Israel NGOs like to use any hook they can find to blame Israel and only Israel. The Goldstone Report said no less than eight times that Israel, by attacking Gaza in response to Hamas rockets, was violating the Convention...

25 Palestinian Arab women reportedly murdered in "honor killings" this year. So far.

From Ma'an: Twenty-five women have been killed so far this year in Palestine in so-called honor crimes, the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling says. The latest victim, Thamar Zeidan, was found strangled on Saturday in the Tulkarem village of Deir al-Ghosoun, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported. Her father allegedly admitted that he killed her. [An activist] said that in 2012, 13 women were murdered in 'honor killings' while...

Many Jordanian teens justify "honor killings"

From AFP: Belief that so-called honor killings are justified is still common among Jordanian teenagers, a Cambridge University study revealed on Thursday. The study by researchers from the university's Institute of Criminology found that almost half of boys and one in five girls interviewed in the capital, Amman, believe that killing a daughter, sister or wife who has "dishonored" or shamed the family is justified. "Researchers surveyed over 850...

A new twist on "honor killing," and how it relates to peace

From Ma'an: Israeli police on Wednesday identified a 19-year-old Palestinian as the main suspect in the murder of a woman from Jerusalem. Police spokeswoman Luba al-Samari said 19-year-old Mohammad Shweiki was suspected of choking Minas Qasim to death because her family rejected his marriage proposal. The body of Qasim, 21, was found near a dump in East Jerusalem's al-Eizariya...

"Honor killing" in Gaza

From PCHR: According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 02:00 on Friday, 08 March 2013, the body of the young woman was brought to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. The body was later transferred to the Forensic Medicine Department in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. According to police sources, the Palestinian police opened an investigation into the crime and arrested the victim's father and two of her brothers on suspicion...

Stop the presses: Syrian sheikh declares honor killings wrong!

What does it say that when an ounce of sanity comes to the Muslim world - it is newsworthy? Following are excerpts from an address by Syrian Sunni cleric Karim Rajeh, which aired on Al-Hiwar TV on January 27, 2013. Karim Rajeh: It has come to my attention that some of those who claim to manifest manhood and honor, upon learning that one of their daughters has been raped by criminals and shabiha during this revolution, permit the killing of that...

Abbas has no plans to outlaw "honor killings"

In May 2011, to much fanfare, Mahmoud Abbas announced that he removed leniencies to the Palestinian Arab laws that reduced murder sentences in the case of "honor killings," if a woman is murdered for reasons of "family honor." I noted at the time that he didn't bother to get rid of the law, but sort of amended it a little with still lots of loopholes. It was even worse than...

Now, THIS is an "honor killing!"

From Ma'an: Unidentified gunmen killed a 43-year-old man in Gaza days after his release from jail, local sources said Thursday. The man was jailed after confessing to raping his 16-year-old daughter. Police had launched an investigation after the man's daughter gave birth to a daughter. He was in jail awaiting a trial, but was released on Aug. 16 along with 98 other prisoners as a gesture by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to celebrate the Muslim...

Honor killing after years of abuse

Practically every sentence in this Ma'an article is more outrageous than the one before. A man is being charged for the murder of his sister, who he is suspected of killing after he was released on bail facing charges of beating her. Days before the death of Randa al-Mahareq, aged 34, her brother and father were detained after she complained to police that they beat her. The men, from al-Samu near Hebron, were detained for four days, but a court...

Honor killing in Gaza

A 17-year old girl from the al-Shati camp in northern Gaza was strangled early this morning. Police say that she was killed by her father and brother. Sources say that she was killed for reasons of "honor." So the dead girl's family can now hold their heads up high.&nbs...