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The inspiration behind Israel’s far-right, anti-LGBTQ coalition
From legalizing discrimination against queer people to promoting conversion therapy, Israel's new coalition is looking to the American far right for cues.
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Shiri Eisner
January 1, 2023
Women are not an excuse for colonial intervention
The United States still frames its military occupation of Afghanistan as a force for women's rights. It is not the first empire to make this misleading claim.
By
Helena Zeweri
September 28, 2021
Being a woman in Gaza
Women in Gaza rise above Israel’s blockade every day, and continue to thrive despite high unemployment rates and collapsing infrastructure. By Qamar Taha Over the past two years, I got to know dozens of extraordinary women from the Gaza Strip; entrepreneurial, creative, socially committed women who managed to build impressive careers despite the many difficulties…
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March 8, 2019
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Who will put an end to the murder of Arab women in Israel?
Ten women from the same family have been murdered since 2000. In failing to protect them, we have failed in coming to terms with the fact that women are independent, free human beings who have exclusive ownership over their bodies. (Translated from Hebrew by Sol Salbe) The first documented murder of a woman in Palestine…
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Samah Salaime
November 4, 2014
From breaking barriers to waiting in Gaza: A week in photos – November 14-20
This week: Palestinians destroy the separation barrier in three different villages across the West Bank, Bedouin protest the Prawer Plan in the Negev, Bethlehem residents receive demolition orders, animal rights activists pour fake blood all over an Israeli supermarket, and more. …
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Activestills
November 21, 2013
After marathon is cancelled, will Gaza’s women speak out?
On March 5, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which works with Palestinian refugees, announced it was cancelling its third international marathon in Gaza in mid-April. The race was called off due to the decision of the Hamas leaders in Gaza not to allow women to participate. The woman in me was deeply…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
March 8, 2013
Interior minister exploits rape by Eritrean for anti-immigrant campaign
Prepare yourselves. Last May, when it was last announced that an Eritrean citizen raped an Israeli woman, Interior Minister Eli Yishai responded by placing thousands of asylum seekers, among them children, rape and torture victims and the elderly in administrative detention, all in accordance with Israel’s Prevention of Infiltration Law. In the wake of the…
By
Laissez Passer
January 3, 2013
WATCH: Palestinian women-only list makes bid for municipal council
Palestinian voters in the West Bank are casting their ballots for the first time in six years, as part of the occupied territories elect municipal council officials in nearly one-hundred towns and villages. HEBRON, WEST BANK – On Saturday, Palestinians went to the polls in an election that is being closely watched by the Palestinian…
By
Roee Ruttenberg
October 20, 2012
The holy war against Arab-Jewish relations and the Jerusalem lynch
Those who attacked Palestinians in central Jerusalem claimed they wanted to prevent them from speaking to Jewish girls. The fear of interracial relations once found only in the fringes of the right are now turning into a legitimate, mainstream political issue in national-religious circles. Jerusalem Police are still carrying out arrests of suspects – mostly teenagers…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 21, 2012
Ultra-nationalist leader invokes Assad’s victims to defend Israel
Im Tirtzu, the ultra-nationalist organization whose main activity has involved witch-hunt campaigns against Israeli civil society and academia, has hit upon a new angle that it believes will save Israel, which one of its leaders unveiled in an op ed in Haaretz on Monday (Hebrew): expose human rights violations in the Arab and Muslim world!…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
March 21, 2012
Misogynist ad campaign exposes hypocrisy within the left
By Anonymous I was sexually assaulted by a left-wing activist last summer. The perpetrator was – and still is – a guy with all the right credentials: post-colonialist, post-Zionist, anti-capitalist, and so on. Most significantly, he considers himself a feminist. Until he assaulted me, we were friends. I had met him through my involvement in…
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+972 Magazine
March 11, 2012
Why isn’t Lieberman capitalising on the women’s rights issue?
Avigdor Lieberman’s party, Yisrael Beitenu, owes much of its clout to flying the secularist banner and opposing the growing religious influence over Israeli public life. So why aren’t they standing up against gender segregation? Put simply, they now have much bigger fish to fry. The subject of segregation between men and women in Israeli public…
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Dimi Reider
December 19, 2011
Fine her, she’s a witch!
Rabbinical court penalizes a woman for witchcraft. And no, it’s not Monty Python The rabbinical court of Haifa ruled against a woman whose husband claimed she practiced witchcraft in their home. The court acquitted the woman of refusing to cook for her husband, as the latter committed adultery, which the court found constituted mitigating circumstances…
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Yossi Gurvitz
October 26, 2011
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