Here's my response today to the Open Letter posted by Million Women Rise on Facebook, available to read here (posted on the 22nd February). And this is not the only objectionable post on their timeline, such as writing out chants that begin with the infamous, anti-Semitic, genocidal slogan from the 🏞️ to the 🌊!
Feminists stayed deafeningly quiet when Jewish women were horrifically raped during Hamas's barbaric assault on Israel October 7th. That silence had nothing to do with the IDF going into Gaza because that wasn't even planned or discussed yet at that point. If Israel now has no sympathy with certain feminists they are right to feel this way. I feel this way too. How dare feminists go on about violence against women and 'march' for freedom for women from violence yet when it comes to Jewish women you don't care. I went on one of these 'marches' years ago, it was truly amazing and I still wholeheartedly support the feminist cause to stop male violence against women. But I assumed this anti-violence message applied to ALL women, in a truly intersectional way: no exceptions, no bias, including no anti-Semitism, no anti-Israel sentiment behind it. So I now have to revise my opinion of, and support for, any feminist group that only supports the rights of some women and not others, be it Jewish women, trans women, or women of any other identity. It's even more concerning when so-called feminists do massive anti-violence against women campaigns but when sexual violence happened October 7th in the most extreme way imaginable, almost all feminists around the world showed no empathy towards these Jewish victims and even made disgusting victim-blaming statements about Jews to excuse their horrendous lack of support. That sort of heartlessness is a turn-off and exposes a crack in the movement. Indeed, it exposed antisemitism within global feminism.
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