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Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Blind Allegiance: The Dangers of Uncritical Jewish Support for Social Movements (Judean Rose)

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.Black lives matter. Of course they do. Everyone’s lives matter. But you don’t just go and support a group with an agreeable name without some due diligence. Or do you? My progressive Jewish friends don’t seem to think any due diligence is necessary when it...

Blaming Israel alone for Gaza mental health problems is just another kind of Jew-hatred. Here's why.

The Israeli Gisha NGO concentrates on freedom of movement of people and goods between Israel and the territories, and it issues reports and statistics to that end.It just released a graphics-heavy online report about the impact of Israel's closure of Gaza on the mental health of Gazans:In Their Words: Mental Health Professionals in Gaza on Treating the Effects of Closure“There’s...

Another false accusation of an Israeli law discriminating against Arabs

Jewish Voice for Peace writes in their email newsletter:On Sunday, the Israeli Knesset passed a shockingly racist law — even by the standards of Israel’s apartheid government.Under the new "sexual terrorism" law, Palestinian citizens of Israel convicted of rape, sexual assault, or sexual harassment can receive double the sentence of Israelis found guilty of the same crimes....

Egyptian mother arrested for "indecent videos" of doing housework in a modest nightgown

RT reports:Lawyer Ashraf Farahat announced that the security services at Al-Maasara Police Station in Helwan, Egypt, arrested the owner of the “Anoosh Diary” YouTube channel, accusing her of spreading immorality and outraging public decency.The accused appears in sexy clothes that highlight her body, to attract followers, saying: "I am divorced and I have two young children,"...

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...

A summary of the persecution of women in the Arab Middle East

Raseef22, a liberal Arab site with an English section, has a series of articles that describe how badly women are treated in Arab countries, today.Some excerpts.Do we have to be superheroes to be safe and protected? The answer is absolutely no. I'm not Superwoman, and I don't want to be her.I am an ordinary woman with simple dreams, like living in a safe world, and not being...

Anti-Israel activists hush up Palestinian sexual harassment and rape of their women

In the TV documentary series Shtula, at one point members of the ISM tell the woman posing as an anti-Israel activist that, by the way, she can expect to be sexually harassed by Palestinian men.It's just part of the job.This is well known in the anti-Israel activist community. In 2010, a Palestinian convinced a group of female Western activists to let him stay in their...

The hot girls of Gaza

I've been to my share of trade shows, and it is not surprising that exhibitors will try to find attractive women to front their booths and try to being in more men.Guess what? It happens in Gaza, too.Even with the women covered up, there was no shortage of makeup as the best looking ones were on display at the Gaza National Products exhibition, held on Tuesday in order to...

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...