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Wow, you didn't miss a thing. I was approached near a mall by a blonde, blue-eyed woman who was trying trust a Palestinian flag into my hand. She wanted me to join the noisy screaming Hamas supporter in a community centre named for a former Jewish mayor. I refused the flag and she was getting quite aggressive with me, a short senior woman. Suddenly, a very tall, handsome black man appeared and without touching the woman, put his hand in front of her, she stepped back, as he grabbed her stateless flag, tore it up, told her to leave. I thanked him as he escorted me into the mall. I had wished I could have commented to this misled woman about the treatment of women, all women by Hamas, etc., but she fled down the street. The crocodile teared women in the world have forgotten about what happened on October 7th, along with our Canadian Government, a government that is always talking about empowering women, but as soon as women disagree with them, they are out of the government. I think every woman in those mob riots should be forced to watch the videos from that fateful, over and over and over again, along with all the Gay men who are also supporting Hamas!

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I'm relieved to know your experiences was one in which you saw a good side of humanity, the gentleman who helped you, and your rejection of the flag caused disruption for her. Unfortunately, these people can see the videos and still deny it. I've read it in comments in US papers. They're fake, created by the IDF, etc. Even the hostage who just described what she went through, the remarks were disgusting. This is the kind of people in our midst.

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Thank you, Giada, for articulating the shameful stance of the current feminist movement. It is yet another front on which we Jews have been declared expendable. It almost makes me ashamed for having participated in the DC Women’s March that January day after you-know-who was inaugurated. Unbeknownst to me, what you describe had already started within the movement long before 2016, sadly.

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Sadly she is, IMHO, misunderstanding why these beliefs are being perpetuated.

The neo-marxists understand that to destroy Western civilization you must first cause division and the best way to accomplish this is to foster a victim vs. oppressor environment. We Jews are the low hanging fruit and best choice as oppressor based on the historical antisemitism tropes..

First us and then the "Capitalists" then.....

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Marxists have targeted the family for destruction from the beginning. Feminism was merely a means to an end. Feminists have never supported women, only The Cause.

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Bingo. When Marxists stopped using economic class to divide people (realizing that it wouldn't work in the West the way it worked in 19th century Russia), they turned to race and gender as dividing issues. And you're right: gender issues were particularly important as a way to destroy the traditional family: the building block of Western society. De-legitimize traditional male and female roles in the family; obscure the meaning of male and female - and chaos happens. Which forces people to turn to government: exactly what Marxism wants. I have never needed feminism to get ahead in my career, especially when I left the "pink ghetto" of 1980s advertising and journalism to form my own writing business. And, as a woman with a disability, the "disabled rights" movement was good for little more than getting an income tax credit. <g>

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Anyone counting on government to solve their problems is going to be disappointed. Congrats to you on making your way, your way.

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I agree with you completely about the first part of your comment, it's always been "divide and conquer". It always seems to work unfortunately. And Jews, we seem to be the "go-to" target for hate. We must be very powerful considering Jews are just 2% of the population and are blamed for everything. The rest - capitalists are the ones with the money with which to buy our governments which they appear to have done. WEF, to me, is an actual conspiracy to take over the world, Why are these rich unelected fools not arrested but instead followed and obeyed? Did you know that many American industrialists supported nazi Germany instead of their own country? Think of American soldiers being killed with bullets provided to the Third Reich by Rockefeller. The leader, founder of WEF is Klaus Schwab, the son of a WW2 nazi. Then there's Bill Gates who's busy buying up all the farmland in America and is part owner of the WHO which is currently involved in a lethal power grab. Gates got his start through IBM, the organization which did so much to increase the number killed in the holocaust. I remember after the war, the dp's coming here baring IBM numbers tattooed on their arms. Gates parents, both banking heirs, were heavily involved in both Planned Parenthood and the American Eugenics Society. Hitler actually wrote to the AES thanking them for their "great" ideas about how to rid the world of "unwanted populations". Don't blame the children for their parents' crimes - unless the children show the same prediliction which Gates definitely does. And the Bush family, got rich investing in the Silesian Jewish slave mines, H.W.''s father was known as Hitler's banker and without his expertise, Hitler might never have risen to power. After the war, was he prosecuted? No. He became a U.S. Senator! And the father and grandfather of two presidents, and H.W. was definitely his father's son. Do you think if Prescott Bush had been a member of the communist party, any of them would have achieved such power? I would say no. And I would say unless we find a way to stop this, we are headed into the Fourth Reich and I believe it has been planned for a long time at their private meetings where none of us are welcome although they want constant surveillance on us.

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I really, really hate how much I agree with you here. Ugh.

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My heart breaks for ALL of the loss of humanity and suffering starting 10/7/23. BUT someone needs to explain why there are no mass objections and rising up by Palestinians against HAMAS for starting a war, that built tunnels under Palestinian homes, schools, hospitals, that targeted innocent Jewish civilians at a music festival, sexually assaulted many and maybe on going sexual assaults, took hostages, used Palestinians as human shields, killed some hostages, withheld some emergency food aid from Palestinians, never held an election in years, had / has as a key tenet to kill Jews and destroy Israel as a sovereign state, and that stated after 10/7/23 that they'd go after Jews again in Israel,metc.

Had there been mass Palestinians strongly disavowing HAMAS both before and after 10/7/24 and disavowing them for what they had done on 10/7/24, just maybe Israel would be having an easier time not lumping average Palestinians together with the HAMAS terrorists.

Had any sizable number of Palestinians ever demanded that Hamas change its charter and not state that its goal, essentially, is to destroy Israel, Palestinians Jewish State, then just maybe Israel would not think of "Palestinians" as "anti- semites" whose goal is to destroy Jews, destroy Israel as a Jewish State.

Once HAMAS started a war against Jews & Israel, then Israel had a right to defend itself and to try prevent such attacks from "bad actors".

I am not a religious person, but I will always be Jewish and have far too many scattered relatives that escaped the Holocaust and far too many that did not. As an "always Jewish person", I always want there to be a moral, ethical non-authoritarian or non-extreme right wing government in Israel and one that wants to work toward a 2 State solution.

I dream of Palestinians that will renounce HAMAS and anti-semitism and stop teaching it to their children*, find good negotiators and want elections and not terrorist authoritarian Hamas that don't want a 2 state solution. * In WW2 "far too "Arabs" sided with the Nazis...

As a Jew, I believe in Tikkun Olam: "repair the world" and so the more the entire world works to feed Palestinians and ease suffering, the more all are doing a good thing despite no Palestinians renouncing anti-semitism or HAMAS. And the more the world will start demanding that Hamas release all hostages, the happier I'll be.

But I'll be damned if I am told that to be a feminist I must side only with the Palestinians and their anti-semitism or "Jew Hatred". That is propaganda and anti-semitism pure and simple.

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Perhaps the Palestinians are as fearful of Hamas as are the Israellis. In fact, they would have reason to be more fearful. It's never safe to speak up against those with power. There are many things going on in the U.S. right now that the majority of the people disagree with. They complain privately, but how many are speaking out, how many are protesting?

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Years ago, when I was researching issues surrounding the Palestinians, I read an article by a Palestinian psychiatrist who claimed the entire population was terrorized by their radical leaders and that anyone who raised objections to their policies and actions was eliminated. This is undoubtedly true since the Arabs who were were pretty much forced to live in Gaza, Judea and Samaria by surrounding Arab nations had nowhere else to go. These Arabs, called "Palestinians" - were never intended by the Muslim world to have an independent state. They are there only as squatters to be a constant thorn in Israel's side, working towards Israel's destruction. Until the world accepts this and forces Muslim countries to take these people back, there will always be a problem with them.

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I figured it was something like that - creating bad p.r. for Israel rather than helping those in need of assistance. Israel is surrounded by Arab states and yet the Palestinians have nowhere to go. Additionally, it's generally the leaders, not the people who can't get along for reasons of power and politics. They should fight and kill each other, but it's always just those least involved in creating disharmony who end up as the victims. Also, I see how it is in the UU.S. People are losing their jobs because they disagree with the acceptable propaganda pushed by theestablishment. University students don't feel "safe" if they're forced to be exposed to atlernative opinions and the schools go aloong with that insanity which is an anti-education. I see how J.K. Rowling and othe women who think like hher are vilified and threatened in the "civillllized" west. And how the democrats are throwing people into prison basically for dissent including the criminalization of Donald Trump who I didn't and wouldn't vote for, but how he's being treated is antithetial to all democratic principles. And of course we still have the persecution of Julian Assange for daring to tell the truth. Are we really any better than Hamas? Of course the Palestinians of all people would not dare speak out. It's a horrible situation on both sdies.

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Here's a radical idea: Once Hamas and other Jew-hating leaders of the Palestinians (e.g. Mullahs, other terrorist groups) are eliminated from the region - and I mean totally eliminated - Israel should go in and offer to make them citizens of Israel once they've undergone extensive training and psycho-social rehabilitation. Such an endeavor would take years and Israel would have to be in charge of Gaza, Judea and Samaria. But over time, when so-called Palestinians are leading peaceful, productive lives with opportunities for advancement available that were never available to them before, I think the problem might be resolved. But Israel would need total control. No interference from Muslim states.

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I'm not sure that people who hate an entire group are able to be rehabilitated.. I remember at 19 a trip to visit a friend in Florida. I lived my whole life in NYC. The people in the small town in which I stayed for two weeks were singing civil war songs. I genuinely believed that by using logic I could change their minds. That's the lesson I learned at 19: hate isn't logical.. Sometimes people do change, but it has to come from within themselves. I recently read an article about a man sentenced to prison when he was perhaps 19. As part of a gang, they had kidnapped and tortured another young man, I think Jewish In prison, he became good friends with a Black man which helped him change his mind about Black people., but he still hated Jews. However, when he was released from prison, he was hired by a Jewish man who was very supportive of him. so he stopped hating Jews too. Sad that you have to have personal experience to discover that people are just people, all basically the same; all groups possess good and bad , honest and dishonest, evil and saintly.

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I get that and that’s why the bravery shown by non-Jews risking their lives to help Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe is so admirable.

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You are rigbght. Most of us aren't so brave. I think that's why the worst of us always seem to prevail. Like now, once again.

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How heartening it would be to read about Gazan civilians who helped hostages rather than keeping them in their homes or handing escapees back to Hamas.

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👏👏👏

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I've yet to hear of one

I've seen a handful of coexist videos with Israeli Arab citizens but they are Israelis and it seems some of them are getting the positivity of being an Israeli as opposed to of the Palestinian authority or Gaza or Jordan or the local tobacco shops which are all owned by Palestinians here

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I agreed with nearly everything you said, however there shall not be a third failed bloodthirsty uncivilized barbarian non-peaceful corrupt Palestinian state, Oslo needs to be ended and Israel needs to toughen up and play hard guy onward, that's what's needed in that neighborhood. No one acknowledges when King Hussein killed 25,000 of his own citizens or peasants as it may be because it wasn't Jews doing it, I heard it said recently that the PLO is BLM in blackface fwiw

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Cara Giada,

The Palestinians have offered precious little to humanity apart from providing endless opportunities to virtue signal. And they have had astonishing success at subverting numerous initiatives that began with the best of intentions and ended as hollow shells of themselves, or worse. Thank you for sharing your strong and clear denunciation of the corrupted, cynical force that a once proud and relevant feminism has become.

Se ti manca l'opportunità di parlare italiano qui a Tel Aviv, conosco qualcuno che sarebbe felice di continuare la conversazione davanti a un cappuccino o un Negroni. Sono un americano che ha vissuto in Toscana per quasi 20 anni e sono arrivato da poco anch'io a Tel Aviv. Puoi contattarmi a: Sam @ TuscanyTours. com.

A presto!

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I just subscribed. My daughter is marrying an Italian in Tuscany in September.

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With the new migrants in Italy causing nearly Hamas level chaos there, hope they're thinking about making Aliyah

I proposed in Venice, love what was Italy

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What you've pointed out so articulately is that these women are the polar opposite of what feminism should be. They have been blinded by a hypocritical ideology and follow like sheep. That is not feminism. Their call for women standing with Palestine is almost comically absurd, when missing from their thinking, is that the only value of these women by the men in Gaza is to reproduce and raise Jihadists. You are a wonderful voice for women and should never stop expressing what you truly believe in.

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Powerful piece and you expressed how I feel as a Jewish woman in the US. I saw it coming when the leaders of the Women’s March would not allow Jewish women to participate. Remember Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Carmen Perez?

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I am a Jewish woman. I consider myself a feminist and I am old enough to remember WW2, but from the safety of my Brooklyn home. I was able to read at 3 and every day I recall waiting for one of my older sisters or father to come in with the Daily News. If I held my feet straight out in front of me, which reached the end of the chair cushion, the paper would not fall off my lap. I would first read the headlines. It was always about war and I was always disappointed (until I wasn't). I remember that I hated war even when I didn't really know what it was. I still do, it angers me even more, now that I understand what it does to people's lives, that I live in a country that appears to love attacking other countries. But with this war, I don't know what to believe; who is lying, who is telling the truth? I've never been to Israel. I have no idea what it's like to live there, either for a Jew or a non-Jew. I think I feel as I did at 3 - I just want it to end. I don't like Netanyahu, but I also do not like the vast majority of American so-called leaders. These days no one agrees on anything and if you disagree, youi're my enemy. I find it hypocritically blind for anyone in the western hemisphere to get so angry about Palestine when we here ourselves are living on land that was stolen from its original inhabitants and those who weren't outright murdered (in the millions) we are still guilty of oppressing without a thought given to them., and for a land for which we had no claim ever. I hear that the Israelis treat Palestinians the way we treat minorities in this country. If that's true, it is hurtful, it is shameful to me that Jewish people, with our history, could turn around and do to others what we continue ourselves to suffer from. So I certainly would never attend a a pro-Palestine protest, but I support both sides in the hope they can find a way to live together with respect and in peace. Now as far as feminism is concerned, I believe that was destroyed by the trans ideology and from your comments you are supportive of men claiming to be women. I have no problem with people choosing to live as or in whatever mask they choose. I don't support accepting that mask as reality when it has and is causing so much harm to women. If you so much as braid your hair a certain way, wear a garment common to another culture, even put a comb in your hair common to another culture, you are branded as a cultural appropriator. I believe we all share the same planet and culture isn't patented. But claiming as your own, someone else's DNA to me is tantamount to colonization. The ONLY exception is men in dresses. Somehow to many people, including some who think they are feminists, the fact of thinking it makes it so. The issue for feminists is female oppression wherever it takes place, however it is shown. The trans ideology is simply the latest way to oppress and control women and it has been very successful in bringing women back to before the women's movement of the 1970's. I have been dealing with and fighting against both Jewish and female discrimination for most of my 80+ years and I would not define any person who supports transwomen as being actual women as a feminist.. I do wish for an end to this war in Israel, that somehow both sides can find a better way to resolve their differences and live in peace. And I do hope you will hear what I am saying about feminism. This has been a better time for women because of the struggles of women from the past and we are seeing it stolen once again from us.

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Overall, I agree with what you posted. One of the only things you wrote that I disagree with is where you seem to be saying that only women can be feminists: anyone can so long as they support the idea that women as a class or gender should rarely, if ever, be precluded from doing, being, or trying to do or be anything they darn please.

I am still struggling to analyze issues within the controversial "trans debate as to sports" and have so many factual, ethical and logical arguments in favor of trans athletes that would also apply to the controversies about "girls or women" in traditionally make sports. Frankly, the entire trans and "girls / women" sports debates need never happen at all if spirts were not split into "male" and "female" sports to begun with. I think the categories should be by weight, height, body type, etc.

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You are not the first feminist to express concerns to me about the trans movement. She worries about how it invades women's legitimate spaces, like sports, rest rooms, etc. I'm not a feminist but I agree with her about this.

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How true this is. These vile and ignorant women are NOT feminists. They are an insult to real Feminists and are traitors to the cause!

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No longer a feminist.

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Feminism from my perspective and experience has been about women having choices over their lives and being able to develop their potential and talents. For me, it includes respect for women who want to be homemakers and get the respect deserved for the skills they develop to effectively and efficiently run a household. It involves many skills which before feminism had not been respected. It also includes women who find their calling in a higher education and career and may or may not have children. But they have the same opportunity and right to go into sports, the science and law professions, become skilled tradespeople such as electricians, plumbers, and many other fields. Some have the physical size and strength to be a firefighter and other physical jobs requiring strength. It is about being on an equal footing with men. By the same token it includes men being house husbands because they are better at nurturing while their wife is the main breadwinner. I’ve seen these scenarios all my life and respect when the roles are reversed because of skill set. Yes, among all movements we have our more extreme and strident members and that will always be. I hate to think that a trend gets painted and labeled with just one brush stroke.

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Feminism has always been this way, you’re just finally finding yourself on the wrong side of the divide.

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Fanatics are generally not intelligent people. The thing for them is to have a platform for their fanaticism. It’s gratifying to have righteous moral indignation and to be able to scream at your oppressors, even if they aren’t your oppressors. Some more intelligent, but perhaps heretofore gullible, people are beginning to realize that the victim Olympics doesn’t share its medals equally, that your group is only virtuous and fashionable until another shinier victim group comes along with a better story and more political utility. (It also doesn’t hurt if that new group has Qatari oil money and suicidally stupid Western Leftists promoting a narrative of complete bullshit to fit that square peg of islamofascist murder into the round bonus hole of their half baked pseudo-intellectual ideology.)

The Left has tossed women under the bus for the trans-Marxist movement, because the trannies do more damage to the family, social norms, and society. They are disrupting the dominant power structure, etc. It also doesn’t hurt to have done billionaires funding the exercise. Because generally when there is something insane and destructive gaining traction in the West, there’s a big pot of money behind the scenes, scripting the outrage. Sometimes it’s Chinese Commies money. Sometimes it’s evil retarded billionaire money.

The situation as regards Israeli women is further complicated by the unbroken chain of antisemitism reaching back thousands of years. Jews are scapegoats for everything. How are you going to rationally argue with people who can overlook rape, murder, mutilation to maintain an imaginary purity to a destructive ideology? I’m not talking about feminism. I’m talking about Marxism which pulls everything it can under its umbrella. I’m also talking about Jew hatred passed down for generations among so called civilized peoples.

Antisemitism is painful. It’s dangerous. It’s persistent. It’s clarifying. The liberal tendencies of so many Jews who support social justice movements hasn’t meant anything, has it? No goodwill has been banked with the Commies. Now that you see it for what it is, you don’t have to wonder about who is on your side. It’s not the Commies. It’s not their dumb virtue signaling fair weather adherents. The only sarcastic good news is that at some point the Left will turn on the magical “Palestinians” too, when somebody more useful emerges.

In the meantime, some of us who haven’t lost their minds or their hearts can still agree that rape and murder are universally wrong. Am Chai Yisrael.

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Phyllis Chesler has been writing about this for a while. She is a 60's-70's feminist and "friends" with Stei-ham et al. She found out about her "friends" It was always a communist movement to destroy the family.

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There's fascinating videos about Gloria steinem's rise to center stage, not remembering the details but she seems to have been an asset of somebody whether English or American TBD

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I am a woman, but not a feminist. I am still appalled at the actions of women who will stand in support of murderers and rapists. Where does intelligence and common sense go in times like these? Thank you for being brave enough to stand for the truth.

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As someone who was there (as a kid) at the beginning, 2nd Wave Feminism started out this way. It briefly became domesticated in the 80s & 90s. Now it’s just returning to its roots.

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