#islamism
#Gaza #islamism #hamas #women
and the other side… translate with deepl - horrible…
https://taz.de/Gewalt-an-Frauen/!5972451/
title: And what about the #Israel i women ?
excerpt
For the first time, Israeli women’s rights experts met with representatives of UN Women on Wednesday to campaign for the anti-women crimes of 7 October to be recognized as such. In her speech to the UN Security Council, the Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, finally condemned the crimes committed by Hamas. However, this remained a side note, as Bahous was mainly referring to the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s military operation.
Selective help from UN Women
The fact that UN Women is only selectively committed to women’s rights reveals that it does not care about certain women: Israeli women and Jewish women do not count. Given the anti-Israel positioning of the United Nations, which Alex Feuerherdt and Florian Markl outlined in their book “United Nations against Israel” back in 2019, this is hardly surprising. Back in 2015, Israel was the only country to be condemned as the world’s biggest violator of women’s rights. Not countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
#intersectional #feminism is, when you celebrate the #gangrape of an #israeli #lesbian as #decolonization!
modern #patriarchy #islamism #clericalfascism #antifa #theFailureOfTheLeft #postmodernMadness #leftLunatics
#hamas #gaza #warcrime #genocide #clericalfascism #antisemitism #palestinians #islamism #palestine #freeGaza from hamas!
The unemployment rate in Gaza is 47% and more than 80% of its population lives in poverty, according to the United Nations. Hamas, however, has funded an armed force of thousands equipped with rockets and drones and built a vast web of tunnels under Gaza. Estimates of its annual military budget range from $100 million to $350 million, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources. (...)
Since coming to power in the Gaza Strip 17 years ago, Hamas has filled its coffers with hundreds of millions in international aid, overt and covert injections of cash from Iran and other ideological partners, as well as cryptocurrency, taxes, extortion and smuggling, according to current and former U.S. officials and regional experts. (...)
In addition to levying taxes on Gaza’s businesses and residents, Hamas imposes unofficial fees on smuggled goods and other activity, for a combined income of up to $450 million per year. Hamas also has real estate and other investments around the globe, despite international restrictions, and uses cryptocurrency to mask some of its transactions. (...)
Between 2012 and 2021, Qatar provided $1.49 billion in financial aid to support projects for Palestinian civilians in Gaza, a Qatari official told NBC News. (...)
Hamas’ leadership has invested its income in an international investment portfolio worth $500 million in real estate and other assets from companies in Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, which it uses to conceal and launder its money, according to a Treasury announcement.
Ariel Beery
Rallies by human rights and pro- #Palestinian activists around the world have called for an immediate ceasefire between #Israel and #Hamas. Many of those rallying have only good intentions at heart: they seek no more harm to innocents. They seek to protect the children of #Gaza, who have no responsibility for the crimes of members of their parents’ generation. They seek to mitigate the chances of an outbreak of a regional war that could cause further damage to even more innocents across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt. They seek peace.
Seeing Israel as the stronger party, these well-intentioned activists have come to a simple conclusion: if only Israel stopped its military operations, a #ceasefire would emerge. #Hostages would eventually be returned. Lives would be saved. The problem is, as the leadership of the US and EU have already concluded, that is not #realistic. In past wars with Hamas, Israel has ceased fire and increased economic development for Gaza. Each time, Hamas used the time and money they siphoned off to build #weapons of war and aim those at both #Israelis and the #Palestinians who disagree with their #theocratic #dictatorship. Which is why the only way for the #Left, us #progressives, to live up to our morals and keep the high ground is to call for the immediate unconditional #surrender of Hamas.
Calling for the unconditional surrender of Hamas would prove that the Left cares about children of all countries, without ascribing to a hierarchy of human life. It avoids the moralistic laziness of publicly funded intellectuals such as Nicholas Kristof, among others, who essentially argue that a person planning to shoot you or your children has the same right to life as his victims. It avoids the abdication of responsibility by progressive leaders who forgive the war crimes of the party dedicated to carrying them out.(...)
Hamas depends on #international opinion far more than Israel. Hamas cannot exist without international aid, without international diplomatic air cover.
Those who care deeply about protecting the lives of #innocents need to think not just about today, but tomorrow.
Calling for a ceasefire would mean Israel #accepting a certain number of innocents dead by the hands of Hamas tomorrow in order to save innocent lives today. Calling for an alternative — for the unconditional surrender of Hamas — would solve this problem. Without Hamas in power, the threat to innocent lives on both sides drops precipitously. A ceasefire is made possible because the promise of future bloodshed is virtually eliminated.
There are those who would say that calling for Hamas’ unconditional surrender is unrealistic. That Hamas would not do it, and therefore the Left should focus on the only party who can be pressured by the international community: the democratic State of Israel. That, in my opinion, is worse than moralistic laziness. It is an abdication of morals, a cynical pragmatism that sacrifices Israeli innocent lives due to a lack of self-confidence that the Left should advocate for the truth. It is the path of least #resistance that leads towards the #victory of #evil over good.
Moreover, it is wrong. Because, again, Hamas depends on international opinion far more than Israel. Hamas cannot exist without international aid, without international diplomatic air cover. Without suitcases of cash coming from #Qatar with the active assistance of the #Netanyahu governments over the ages. If anyone can be influenced to stop the violence — if the Left’s progressive voice can have any impact whatsoever — it is by calling for the unconditional surrender of Hamas.
Because if Hamas emerged from its #bunkers, weapons down, hostages free, there would be no international justification for Israel to go to war, and Israel’s war aims would be met. Israelis who recognize now that there is no solution to the conflict that does not include a #political #transformation of the region would join with those #progressives who aided in freeing Gaza from Hamas to envision a new regional order. And there very well might just be peace
#antifa against #islamism #islamistic #clericalfascism and #antisemitism = #antizionism
https://jungle.world/blog/von-tunis-nach-teheran/2023/10/gaza-was-linke-auf-demonstrationen-fordern-sollten
.
What life was like under Hamas around 2011:
Crime & Punishment in the Gaza Strip
An art treasure long cherished by Muslims is deemed offensive. But to whom? | Kenan Malik | The Guardian
#politics #islamism #fanaticism
What is striking about the Hamline incident, though, is that the image at the heart of the row cannot even in the most elastic of definitions be described as Islamophobic. It is an artistic treasure that exalts Islam and has long been cherished by Muslims.
Yet, to show it is now condemned as Islamophobic because… a student says so. Even to question that claim is to cause “harm”. As Berkson asked in another (unpublished) letter he sent to The Oracle, after his first had been removed: “Are you saying that disagreement with an argument is a form of ‘harm’?”
A Hamline Adjunct Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job. - The New York Times
#politics #islamism #fanaticism #wokism
And that's it. Fascistic morons under disguise of victimhood culture. The painting in question is 14th century classical Persian art, done by Muslims in a Muslim country for a Muslim audience back then:
Imagine that. Fuck those morons. Send them to Iran or Afghanistan, to live in a nice tolerant Muslim country. What a fucking bunch of assholes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/hamline-university-islam-prophet-muhammad.html
Each time I see the images of her lying in a coma in a hospital bed, I cannot help thinking that I could have been #MahsaAmini. I was a girl in Iran in 1981, when a law making the #hijab a mandatory dress code for #women first came into force, two years after the Islamic #Revolution. And I was a teenager when the morality #police began making the rounds, stopping and arresting people on a whim, sometimes on no more pretext than a few strands of hair peeking out from under one’s scarf.
One August day in 1984, thickly wrapped under my Islamic uniform and headscarf when the temperature was intolerably high and the water fountains in Tehran had been shut off in observance of Ramadan, I began thinking that I would not mind dying if those who had made our lives so miserable were to die along with me. I left #Iran later that year, but today I feel what so many Iranian women feel: We are all Mahsa Amini.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/iran-headscarf-protest-mahsa-amini/671555/ #revolution #usa #kurdistan #islamism #sanctions #ukraine
Once arrested, Palestinians in the West Bank may face physical beatings, solitary confinement, the whipping of feet, forced confessions, stress positions for prolonged periods of time, inhumane #prison conditions and more. The Independent Commission Human Rights ( #ICHR) received 252 complaints of torture and 279 of arbitrary arrest in the West Bank in 2021 alone. In #Gaza, Palestinians fare even worse.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-713038 #unwatch #israel #hrw #humanrights #ichr #torture #hamas #islamism #bds
It was early 2016, and I had gone to #Trinidad to report on Trinidadian #ISIS foreign fighters for The Atlantic. Between 2013 and 2016, some 240 Trinis travelled to #Syria and Iraq to join the caliphate, making Trinidad one of the world’s biggest exporters, per capita, of ISIS foreign fighters. I wanted to know how a country famed for #calypso, rum and carnival could incubate something so profoundly unTrinidadian.
https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-jihadists-of-the-caribbean/ #is #islamism #war #corruption #religion #violence #iraq
This is not a #Maidan, although many political analysts are trying to present it this way. Where did such amazing #self-organization come from? This is the experience and tradition of the workers. Strikes have been shaking the #Mangistau region since 2008, and the strike movement began back in the 2000s. Even without any input from the #Communist Party or other leftist groups, there were constant demands to nationalize the oil companies. The workers simply saw with their own eyes what privatization and foreign capitalist takeover was leading to. In the course of these earlier demonstrations, they gained enormous experience in struggle and #solidarity. The very life in the wilderness made people stick together. It was against this background that the working class and the rest of the population came together. The protests of the workers in #Zhanoazen and #Aktau then set the tone for other regions of the country. Yurts and tents, which protesters began to put up in the main squares of the cities, were not at all taken from the “Euromaidan” experience: they stood in the Mangastau Region during the local strikes last year. The population itself brought water and food for the protesters.
In Kazakhstan today there is no legal #opposition, the entire political field has been cleared. The Communist Party of #Kazakhstan was the last to be liquidated in 2015. Only 7 pro-governmental parties remained. But there are plenty of #NGOs working in the country, which actively cooperate with the authorities in promoting a pro-Western agenda. Their favorite topics: the famine of the 1930s, the rehabilitation of participants of the Basmachi movement and collaborators of World War II, and so on. NGOs also work on the development of nationalist movement, which in Kazakhstan is completely pro-government. Nationalists hold rallies against #China and #Russia which are sanctioned by the authorities.
https://lefteast.org/a-color-revolution-or-a-working-class-uprising-an-interview-with-aynur-kurmanov-on-the-protests-in-kazakhstan/ #uprising #left #work #strike #islamism #nationalism #takayev #belarus #armennia
