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Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.
Israeli police arrest a Palestinian woman in Karmiel, northern Israel, July 3, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
The first time Palestinian actress (…)
Re-reading Etaf Rum’s ’A Woman is No Man’ in the current context reminds us that Arab-Palestinians have lived with painful, disfiguring histories of displacement for generations now.
Etaf Rum’s story begins in the 1990s in the hilly countryside of Birzeit – flocked by olive trees and mulberry (…)
Study concludes Israel’s invasion and bombing leave most women in the Gaza Strip facing tragic living conditions
A woman sits with others gathering outside the morgue of the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 25 June 2024 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)
The Israeli war (…)
As his long-gestating drama ’Fadia’ airs on Israeli TV, Nazareth-born Palestinian director Shady Srour talks about why he refuses to stay silent about the murder of women in his society
Director Shady Srour. ’As a teenage boy, I felt this kind of social pressure myself.’Credit: Gil Eliahu (…)
Since October 7th, we have been cautiously addressing accounts of violence, including instances of sexual and gender-based violence committed by Israeli military and security forces against Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
Photo: Activestills
Since October 7th, we have been cautiously (…)
All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. Complicating this issue, however, is the fact that accusations of sexual assault have also been (…)
Mothers giving birth with no medical help, babies without milk, one toilet between 500 people – but none of it evokes empathy
Palestinians fleeing Khan Younis arrive in Rafah, Gaza, 26 January 2024. Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Sometimes a disaster is so large that it obscures (…)
When Palestinian liberation fighter Leila Khaled hijacked her first plane in 1969, she became the international pin-up of armed struggle. Then she underwent cosmetic surgery so she could do it again. Thirty years on, she talks to Katharine Viner about being a woman at war
In a way, the whole (…)
Feminist principles compel us to stand with both the Palestinian women being slaughtered in Gaza and the Israeli women testifying about sexual violence.
Israelis gather in Jerusalem’s Independence Park in front of the U.S. Embassy to mourn those killed in Gaza and to call for a ceasefire and (…)
The Israeli army has arbitrarily detained dozens of women and girls from Gaza without disclosing their whereabouts or the charges they face, Palestinian groups and families have said.
Photo: Families fear for women detained by soldiers and taken to undisclosed locations Women with children (…)
Six Arab women’s oranizations, including Na’am Arab Women in the Center, published a postion paper against violence against all women during this war:
Feminists worldwide have made remarkable efforts to stand against silencing women and questioning their voices, especially during times of (…)
We deeply regret that military operations have resumed in Gaza, and we reiterate that all women, Israeli women, Palestinian women, as all others, are entitled to a life lived in safety and free from violence.
We unequivocally condemn the brutal attacks by Hamas on Israel on 7 October. We are (…)
The position paper brings together the various accounts and reports made public so far. These include the testimonies of survivors who witnessed acts of sexual violence, descriptions by security and emergency personnel, and visual accounts that were circulated online.
The Position Paper (…)
“There is no free homeland without free women” reverberated across Palestinian communities last September when thousands of Palestinian women took to the streets in 12 villages, towns and cities across the world in what was the launch of Tal’at, a Palestinian feminist movement. Tal’at means (…)
The TALIAAT movement mobilized for the first time in Ramallah on September 26, 2019, bringing together more than one hundred women against violence committed against a woman by her husband. Other demonstrations were organized at the same time throughout all of historic Palestine, including the (…)
On Thursday, thousands of Palestinians protested for women’s rights in twelve locations across Palestine/Israel and the diaspora following recent high profile cases of gender-based violence against women in Palestinian society.
Ramallah city center, Sep 26, 2019. Photo by Ahmad Al-Bazz / (…)
New coalitions of women are shaping the future of activism and gender equality in the Gaza Strip.
“I am here because I heard my town call me, and ask me to maintain my honor.” Fifty-seven-year-old Um Khalid Abu Mosa spoke in a strong, gravelly voice as she sat on the desert sand, a white tent (…)
Samah Salaime is the founder of Na’am/Arab Women in the Center. A social worker, she lives and works with her family in the Jewish-Arab community of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam and is a regular writer on Local Call, +972 Magazine and Ha’aretz. A Palestinian Israeli, hers is one of the most (…)
Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was recently arrested in a night-time raid on her home. The Israeli authorities accuse her of “assaulting” an Israeli soldier and an officer. A day earlier she had confronted Israeli soldiers who had entered her family’s backyard. The incident (…)
Dear Ikea:
I read the [above] article referenced here , and it is with profound sadness that I read about your newest catalog that is aimed at the Haredi market. You have capitulated to the notion that erasing women from the public sphere is a positive move. While your motive is (obviously) (…)
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