The people of Palestine have been subject to decades of violence of all forms. Israel is a colonial project. It is well-documented by Israeli historians. Taking up a battle for feminism, cherry-picked all because you ignored the many rapes commited by the IDF and others, does not make yours a feminist statement. It makes it highly select…
The people of Palestine have been subject to decades of violence of all forms. Israel is a colonial project. It is well-documented by Israeli historians. Taking up a battle for feminism, cherry-picked all because you ignored the many rapes commited by the IDF and others, does not make yours a feminist statement. It makes it highly selective: the rape of Palestinian women, ok; Israeli women, not ok. You cannot gloss over history because you turned on the news Saturday.
I condemn all violence. It’s not a feminist project to sit in the bleachers as two patriarchies brutalize each other and cheer on either side, surely? Especially when -- as always happens -- they use the bodies of women to score their points.
This is why it is important that any self-described feminist understand that there the dead bodies of many more Palestinians (women and men, does it matter?) are the raison d'être for this resistance. Israel is the aggressor, not the oppressed.
The people of Palestine have been subject to decades of violence of all forms. Israel is a colonial project. It is well-documented by Israeli historians. Taking up a battle for feminism, cherry-picked all because you ignored the many rapes commited by the IDF and others, does not make yours a feminist statement. It makes it highly selective: the rape of Palestinian women, ok; Israeli women, not ok. You cannot gloss over history because you turned on the news Saturday.
I condemn all violence. It’s not a feminist project to sit in the bleachers as two patriarchies brutalize each other and cheer on either side, surely? Especially when -- as always happens -- they use the bodies of women to score their points.
This is why it is important that any self-described feminist understand that there the dead bodies of many more Palestinians (women and men, does it matter?) are the raison d'être for this resistance. Israel is the aggressor, not the oppressed.