{"id":1549276,"date":"2024-03-12T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=98160"},"modified":"2024-03-12T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:08:57","slug":"activist-criticises-western-feminist-silence-on-palestines-brave-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/12\/activist-criticises-western-feminist-silence-on-palestines-brave-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist criticises Western feminist \u2018silence\u2019 on Palestine\u2019s brave women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"header reader-header reader-show-element\">\n<p><em>By Peter Boyle in Gadigal Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"moz-reader-content reader-show-element\">\n<div id=\"readability-page-1\" class=\"page\">\n<div>\n<p>Jana Fayyad, a Palestinian activist, had some sharp words about \u201cthe silence of Western feminists\u201d at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\">International Women&#8217;s Day<\/a>, asking in her address to the Palestine rally in Sydney last Saturday: \u201cAre you only progressive until Palestine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No Palestinian speaker had been asked to address the annual protest the previous day\u00a0and Fayyad did not\u00a0mince her words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSave your corporate high teas, your bullshit speeches, your ridiculous and laughable social media posts on this International Women\u2019s Day!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2024\/03\/12\/the-forever-war-abc-four-corners-reports-on-the-assault-on-gaza\/\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <em>The Forever War<\/em> &#8212; ABC Four Corners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?s=War+on+Gaza\">Other War on Gaza reports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t think of Margaret Thatcher or Ursula Von der Leyen or Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think of Besan [Helasa], we think of Dr Amira al Assori, we think of Hind Khoudary &#8212;\u00a0 we think Plestia [Alaqad], we think of Lama Jamous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think of the women that we honour &#8212; the women in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd beyond the women of Gaza, we think of Leila Khaled and Hanan Ashrawi and Fadua Tuqan and Amira Hass and Dr Mona el Farrah &#8212; the women at the forefront of Palestinian liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said considering that 9000 women had been \u201cslaughtered by the terrorist state of Israel\u201d, the silence of Western feminists had been deafening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe silence has been deafening &#8212; the silence on the 15,000 children slaughtered; the silence on the sexual assault and the rape that woman in Gaza have been subjected to; the silence on the horrific conditions that 50,000 pregnant women face having to do C-sections without anesthesia; and the silence on the mothers having to pick up their children in pieces,&#8221; Fayyad said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe silence is deafening!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is your feminism?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see it anywhere! I don\u2019t hear of it! Where are your voices? Or are you only progressive until Palestine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Republished from Green Left with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2024\/03\/13\/activist-criticises-western-feminist-silence-on-palestines-brave-women\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Boyle in Gadigal Sydney Jana Fayyad, a Palestinian activist, had some sharp words about \u201cthe silence of Western feminists\u201d at International Women\u2019s Day, asking in her address to the Palestine rally in Sydney last Saturday: \u201cAre you only progressive until Palestine?\u201d No Palestinian speaker had been asked to address the annual protest the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,789,175,20115,432,5,72321,975,288,365,6,7,10790,10,62847,12,473,74630,49733,14,15,16,75968,1743,69776],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550314,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549276\/revisions\/1550314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}