When Britain's 'feminists' cheer for bombs and sneer at Palestinian suffering (www.middleeasteye.net)

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A familiar breed of British pundit has resurfaced - loud, self-declared feminists whose outrage is as selective as it is performative, and whose moral compass somehow always aligns with western state power.

They remain silent as Gaza burns, but are quick to find their voice to cheer on Israel and its allies as they threaten to flatten Iran - civilian casualties be damned.

During Israel's recent strikes on Iran, the radical feminist journalist and co‑founder of Justice for Women, Julie Bindel, branded leftist anti-war feminists "Team Iran" sympathisers. It was a disingenuous, grotesquely misleading and dangerously ideological accusation, but not a surprising one.

What we're witnessing goes beyond reasoned critique - it is the cynical weaponisation of feminism to uphold state violence.

This is no isolated incident. It's a pattern.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Julie Bindel

I'm gonna take a guess that this is a TERF

She wrote in 2008 that gender-reassignment surgery reinforces gender stereotypes, and that the diagnosis of gender identity disorder (GID) is built upon outdated views about how females and males should behave. "It is precisely this idea that certain distinct behaviours are appropriate for males and females," she wrote, "that underlies feminist criticism of the phenomenon of 'transgenderism.'"[84][85]

Here we go. Who knew anti-transgender sentiment goes hand in hand with western chauvinist conceptions?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

People who attack vulnerable populations easily switch targets for their hatred

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