Why Are Women in America Cheering for Hamas and Iran? Phyllis Chesler
https://spectator.org/why-are-women-in-america-cheering-for-hamas-and-iran/
Have you noticed that young women all across America are demonstrating for Hamas, Iran, and Palestine? Why would such privileged and educated women, the heirs to the #MeToo movement and to Second and Third Wave Western feminisms, cheer for male rapists and male killers, arguably the most blood-thirsty and sadistic misogynists this side of Ghenghis Khan? Why side with Islamist barbarians who have jailed, tortured, and executed their own women over a slipped Islamic veil, and who would forcibly convert their Western female admirers to Islam, veil them as well, and coerce them into polygamous marriages?
[T]hey are privileged political opportunists posturing as victim-pariahs who feel that they are “occupied” by Western patriarchy.
Do these educated daughters of affluence understand that were they to express any views deemed dissident in Gaza, Teheran, or Kabul or, were they to announce that they were “queer” or gay, (which is how some of these activists identify themselves), that they would be instantly honor killed?
In the months since 10/7, in addition to the odious, faux-feminist silence about the gang-rapes of both women and men, the torture of babies and whole families, the kidnapping of civilians — a terrifying tsunami of hatred towards Israel, America, and Jews has exploded into non-stop jihadi-style, belligerent mobs, whose goal is to disrupt civil society and gain both attention and followers for their reprehensible views. The news of Hamas’s pogrom on steroids, unleashed their Jew hatred, and whetted the mob’s appetite for more of same.
Post Iran’s most recent attack on Israel, in the past few days in New York City, where I live, such activists camped out on the lawn at Columbia University “for Gaza,” “for Hamas,” endangering Jewish students, daring to be arrested. For the first time, Columbia’s President actually had them arrested. Although they were all quickly released, many returned later that same night, with celebrities in tow, to re-constitute their encampment.
Those who were detained, included the daughter of Democratic Congresswoman and “Squad” member, Ilhan Omar; a young female intern for New York State Attorney General Letitia James; a third young woman who is about to intern for Democratic Senator Dick Durbin; and two daughters of corporate titans. Three of the five are Columbia students.
Are they stupid? Has their indoctrination into politically correct narratives utterly blinded them to reality? Do they wish to die? How are we meant to understand this?
Well, some women are famously known to propose marriage to convicted male serial killers, who primarily kill women. One woman actually married the jailed monster, Ted Bundy, got herself impregnated by him, and gave birth to a daughter.
Maybe this is a familiar form of female ambition, that Beauty can tame the Beast — an even darker version of “Fifty Shades of Gray,” in which girls are attracted to Bad Boys who will, fairy-tale style, ultimately love and marry them.
On the other hand, and rather paradoxically, the body language of these BLM/Antifa-style female activists is often rather male-like. Most of the female demonstrators are loud, aggressive, angry, arrogant, and young; they shout, bang drums, blow whistles, wear face masks, keffiyehs, sneakers, or combat boots. While Arab Muslim girls in hijab do participate, the majority seem to be bareheaded Caucasian students, and self-identifying lesbian, queer, and transgender activists.
The Jews and queers among them are not “self-hating” Jews or persecuted queers. Rather, they are privileged political opportunists posturing as victim-pariahs who feel that they are “occupied” by Western patriarchy, just as Palestine has allegedly been occupied by Israel. They are more obsessed with the rights of a country that has never existed than with the rights of their Muslim “sisters.”
This denial of facts, history, and reality about the Middle East, and especially about Islam’s long history of religious and gender apartheid, as well as its’ colonial and imperial past, is similar to another trendy delusion, namely the insistence that transwomen are women and transmen are men; that biology, genetics, anatomy, hormones, sex-specific genitalia, either do not exist or are not important. Like society, they, too, can all be perfected and at any cost. As one banner at the Columbia encampment proclaims: “Palestinian Return by Any Means Necessary.”
These arrogant lost souls are out there, all across America, chaining and gluing themselves to bridges, holding a never-ending series of Israeli Apartheid weeks, mounting tent cities on campuses, cursing, threatening, cornering, and chasing down Jewish students. Many strongly resist being removed and physically fight the police whom they accuse of having been trained by the IDF. However, in the rare instances that such protestors are handcuffed or arrested, they are outraged, insulted. Some smirk, some weep. (READ MORE: J Street Jerks Manipulate Wiesel’s Words)
Again, I must ask: Who are these female protestors? Is this just another Rite of Spring, an annual dance round the Maypole, or is it a more serious version of a communist uprising against capitalist America? In a sense, this is partly what’s happening. They do resemble the young communist Chinese Red Guards and the Stalinist mobs, ready to usher in and to celebrate the reigns of bloody terror to come.
Although both left-wing, foreign national, and Islamist sources have funded such motivating beliefs, I doubt that most of these activists are being funded to march and protest.
Their ideas are completely unoriginal and repetitive and routinely reduced to slogans. The signs and banners are visually arresting and seem to be professionally made. “End the Occupation.” “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free.” “Intifada, Intifada.” “Death to Israel, Death to America.” “End Israeli Apartheid.” “This is genocide.” “Hamas are Freedom Fighters.” “Long Live Hamas.”
We know that some mentally ill Muslim women have been manipulated into becoming suicide killers of Jews, Israelis, and of other Muslim women in the Arab world, and that some Muslim women have been threatened by Palestinian Islamists with being honor killed for an indiscretion and offered a chance to “cleanse” their names and go out in glory.
We are are also familiar with some high profile, educated, and well-to-do women, such as Aafia Siddiqui, aka Lady Al-Qaeda, who chose to make bombs for Jihad and attack American soldiers in Afghanistan, and autistic-schizophrenic savant, Margaret Marcus, aka Maryam Jameela, who fled America for Lahore, Pakistan, and became the English translator of Maulana Abu Ala Maudidi’s work. He was the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami. Both women hated Jews, Zionists, and America.
Are the American women demonstrating for the demons of 10/7 similarly mentally ill? Have they been coerced by threats of honor killing into supporting terrorism? The answer seems to be no.
These protestors are unpaid performers, action-artists, attention-grabbers, virtue-signalers. They are high on a new kind of drug, one which solidifies a false tribal identity. They are ignorant and intolerant, but, on their own, they are relatively powerless. However, as part of a murderous mob on the move, they are formidable, untouchable — perhaps beyond gender?
These pro-Jihad, anti-Israel protests are certainly one way to escape many of the ongoing and rather dangerous female realities in the West. This includes young girls agreeing to being choked by boys during sexual encounters (in which the girls do not experience orgasms); mentally ill teenagers opting to become transmen as part of a cult that is ruining their lives but enriching surgeons, drug companies, and mental health professionals. (READ MORE: Silence of the Feminist Lambs: Not a Word on Hamas Horrors)
These post-feminist realities include the continuing epidemic of sexual harassment, rape, and intimate partner violence in the West; the loss of women’s reproductive rights in America; the movement toward a gender identity based, not a sex-based equal rights amendment in America; the increase in trafficking and prostitution globally; the rise of transgender women who imperil women’s sports and women in women-only prison; the continuation of economic disparities which some young American women “solve” by finding Sugar Daddies and/or live-in boyfriends to help support them.
While I support same-sex unions, I do not privilege them above the tradition of heterosexual marriage and motherhood. These time-honored choices are also being challenged by legalized surrogacy, a practice in which women are viewed merely as “surrogate uteruses.” The availability of blow-up female sex dolls and the disappearance of womankind from what used to be Women’s Studies are signs of how dangerous the times have become.
Or: Is something else also at work? Are these female protestors for Hamas so afraid of freedom and so ill-equipped to handle it that they have chosen to appease and support the most dangerous demons on earth by supporting them?
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