Source: Common Dreams
by Nour Jaghama & Grace Siegelman
“Women’s Marches are being planned across the country ahead of Election Day to ‘show the strength of our feminist movement.’ However, curiously missing from the talking points around the strength of the feminist movement is the women of Palestine, women and girls who have endured the brutality of anti-feminist policies for decades under the illegal occupation by Israel. … This story is not new or singular; Palestinian families have faced it on a daily basis for decades. It sparked our reflection on the co-option of feminism in the belly of the beast, where we’re writing from. … Nadia Alia wrote about the 2014 Israeli invasion in Gaza, citing many reporters detailing the ‘disproportionate’ number of women and children victims during this violent attack. She then begged [sic] the question, what is a proportionate amount of women and children harmed during war and conflict?” (10/16/24)