The new video, shot by an Al Jazeera cameraman, shows Israeli riot police blocking Odeh’s path, before shoving the parliamentarian and spraying him in the face with pepper spray.įootage shows police assaulting MK Ayman Odeh during deadly demolition raid Subsequent video evidence revealed that Al-Qiyan had been shot before he lost control of his vehicle. If mainstream feminism and the Women’s March on Washington truly believe in choice as a pathway to justice, then they must accept that Palestinian justice is a feminist value.Newly released footage shows Israeli police attacking MK Ayman Odeh during a violent home demolition raid in Umm Al-Hiran on January 18, as reported by +972 Magazine.Īt the time, Israeli authorities claimed that the deceased, Yacoub Abu Al-Qiyan, was shot while carrying out a “terrorist attack” on the Israeli forces conducting the demolition raid. In 2006, they chose to be governed by Hamas, and every day, they choose to resist in whatever ways they can. Palestinian women and their families did not choose to live under siege and occupation. Today, Israel controls 61% of the West Bank, a territory that it and every other country on Earth recognizes it does not own. The roads that connect these settlements, which are placed in every corner of the West Bank, severely limit Palestinians’ movement and access to their own land, making them dependent on foreign aid. Today, there are 400,000 Israeli citizens living in 131 Jewish settlements, not including another 97 outposts that are as-of-yet considered illegal under Israeli law. In 1967, there were no Israeli citizens living in the West Bank. In the West Bank, Israel sanctions the building of illegal settlements despite disapproval from the UN and the international community. As of today, 1.8 million Palestinians remain locked inside the Gaza Strip, with little ability to move around and no access to their friends and family in Israel and the West Bank. Then, in 2007, it imposed a land, sea, and air blockade that gave it complete control over the influx and outflow of all people and goods, including essential services like water. In 2001, Israel bulldozed and bombed Gaza’s only airport, severely limiting Palestinians’ access to the outside world.
Since the 1990s, Israel has controlled the movement of Palestinians within the Gaza Strip through the use of checkpoints and permit requirements. Those refugees and their descendents now number over 5 million, many of whom live in overcrowded and underfunded camps in the surrounding Arab countries. Then, in 1967, Israel gained control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, creating another million Palestinian refugees. These people did not choose to leave their homes they were expelled by violence and then refused the right to return when the war ended. For decades, the Israeli government has denied Palestinian women (and men) the ability to make their own choices about their government, their economy, and their families.ħ50,000 Palestinians were displaced and over 500 villages were destroyed between 19 in order to create the Jewish state of Israel. The importance of choice is exactly why Palestinian justice is a feminist issue. It means that a personal opposition to abortion does not give anyone the right to restrict access to safe and affordable abortions for women who need them. Choice means that women who choose to work and women who choose to be homemakers can be equal in their commitment to gender equality. For some women that means wearing a hijab, while for others it means being able to wear short skirts or go topless without judgment. Feminism dictates that women deserve the ability to make their own choices about their careers, their bodies, and their politics. In the spirit of choice, I marched on Saturday with a sign that read “Palestinian Justice is a Feminist Value.”Ĭhoice is arguably the most important component of modern feminism. The rationale for this decision was not a moral opposition to the pro-life position itself, but an opposition to pro-life policies that restrict access to safe and affordable abortions, thereby taking the choice away from pregnant women. The Women’s March on Washington recently made headlines by refusing the sponsorship of the New Wave Feminists, a pro-life women’s group.
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