Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy
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As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do so, says author Mona Eltahawy

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights record to justify his heinous war on Iran. This is the man whose genocide of Palestinians in Gaza killed more women and children in its first year than the equivalent period of any other conflict over the past two decades.

“They’ve impoverished you, they’ve given you misery, they’ve given you death, they’ve given you terror, they shoot down your women, leaving this brave, unbelievable woman, Mahsa Amini, to bleed on the sidewalk for not covering her hair,” he told Iranians in an interview with Iran International.

It is incredible to hear Netanyahu call on the Iranian people to rise up against the very things he has subjected Palestinians to. But it is not surprising. I am all too familiar with the ways imperialists, occupiers and invaders weaponise Muslim women’s bodies and rights to justify their wars.

  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    18 hours ago

    He is right for all the wrong reasons. There are only bad sides in this conflict.

    The world will be a lot better without both those authoritarian regimes.

  • Zenith@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    Islam is hell for women but this is a thin veneer of lies to justify something he already wanted to do. I hope one day no Muslim women exist because Islam hates women so deeply they realize no loving or reasonable god would create a system reliant on their subjugation and leave.

  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 day ago

    This is like being in 2001 all over again. “Iraq Iran has Weapons of mass destruction nuclear weapons and we need to save its women”.

    Saving women by bombing them to death.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      1 day ago

      Sometimes I worry that Israel comes off as a bit xenophobic, and in that context may not recognize the rights of others.

  • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
    621·
    1 day ago

    You hear that? Netanyahu is woke. We gotta drop this DEI regime!

    Alternative take: Netanyahu has the balls and courtesy to flatten entire families instead of just the men. How chivalrous.

  • Kühlschrank@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    I really don’t know how to fight the obvious propaganda. It seems like it would help if we had a news media that could and would call it like it is but we’ll never see headlines like “Netanyahu uses blatantly hollow rhetoric to try to justify a genocidal war he started in a desperate attempt to stay in power”.

    • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      I don’t know why obvious propaganda works on so many people. People I assumed had functional brains, just turn them off whenever the online. It’s fucking maddening, and I don’t see any way to combat it.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    Yes, fighting for women’s rights and their bodies by blowing them into a fine red mist.

    I would tell him to kiss my ass. But I would rather he suck the shit out of my asshole.

  • blattrules@lemmy.worldEnglish
    392·
    1 day ago

    I saw a commercial yesterday that was Israel advertising for the war with Iran. Get that propaganda off my tv.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    This sounds just like all the ridiculously hollow propaganda Putin was dropping for justifying the attack on Ukraine.

    “We’re rescuing them from uh, really bad people, er… By invading them, yes. They wanna be Russian so bad!”

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    1 day ago

    I recall this being the major complaint from Americans about ending the permanent war we had going in Afghanistan too.