Pinkwashing of discrimination against women in Israeli politics and society has led western politicians and media to ignore the issue. Israeli news sites, in contrast, are frank about this worsening problem, which is spearheaded by the far right. In this article I will look at misogyny within the political parties making up the Israeli government.
It is worth noting that the slack cut to anti-women Israeli fundamentalists is not extended to Arabs and Muslims. Large sections of western media are no different from the political establishment when they deal with the Middle East. Reactions and coverage of recent events in Syria and occupied Palestine have been no different especially when it comes to misogyny. For example, Syria’s newly appointed leader Ahmad Sharaa caused a controversy when he avoided shaking <https://www.newarab.com/news/syria-controversy-al-sharaa-avoids-handshake-german-fm> hands with Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, in line with his socially conservative views. Yet when Joe Biden was US president, he didn’t feel offended when Israeli female singer Yuval Dayan refused to shake his <https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-religious-singers-rebuff-of-biden-handshake-gets-presidential-kosher-stamp/> hand. He admired her adherence to her religious teachings which prohibits any physical contact with the opposite gender. Yet it became a big deal when a conservative Muslim did exactly the same thing. https://www.juancole.com/2025/02/increasingly-pinkwashed-stereotypes.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34975): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34975 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110995709/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
