This is an image that should cover the front page of most magazines and news papers.
The amazing strength and bravery of women of Gaza who are showing the world how love and humanity looks like.
This is not going to be published, no one will dare humanizing the victims of the genocidal regime of Israel. Much less a Palestinian woman wearing Hijab.
The plight of women in #Gaza is underreported not only because many media even in liberal Western democracies still are based on male dominance but because liberal #feminism has a blind spot regarding its shortcomings in opposing the colonialist and imperialist i.e. patriarchal rule of their governments.
Those imperatives are baked in a feminism that restricts its activities on equal chances in their national market societies without criticising their extractivistic and capitalistic methods of accumulation in the Global south.
In the end women themselves want to benefit from this exploitative relation instead of liberating women and other genders all over the world in special solidarity with those who have nearly no agency left to resist war, famine and suppression.
The gigantic gap regarding rights, freedoms and wealth between Israel and #Palestine signifies this hierarchical patriarchal relation and manifests its violent structure in Gaza in the unbearable insight that this is about annihilation
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