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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights record to justify his heinous war on Iran. This is the man whose genocide of Palestinians in Gaza killed more women and children in its first year than the equivalent period of any other conflict over the past two decades.

“They’ve impoverished you, they’ve given you misery, they’ve given you death, they’ve given you terror, they shoot down your women, leaving this brave, unbelievable woman, Mahsa Amini, to bleed on the sidewalk for not covering her hair,” he told Iranians in an interview with Iran International.

It is incredible to hear Netanyahu call on the Iranian people to rise up against the very things he has subjected Palestinians to. But it is not surprising. I am all too familiar with the ways imperialists, occupiers and invaders weaponise Muslim women’s bodies and rights to justify their wars.

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[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago

You hear that? Netanyahu is woke. We gotta drop this DEI regime!

Alternative take: Netanyahu has the balls and courtesy to flatten entire families instead of just the men. How chivalrous.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Islam is hell for women but this is a thin veneer of lies to justify something he already wanted to do. I hope one day no Muslim women exist because Islam hates women so deeply they realize no loving or reasonable god would create a system reliant on their subjugation and leave.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Israel fighting for anyone's rights is so fucking laughable

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I worry that Israel comes off as a bit xenophobic, and in that context may not recognize the rights of others.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

I saw a commercial yesterday that was Israel advertising for the war with Iran. Get that propaganda off my tv.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Yeah I saw it last night.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

What... Did it say? Who was it trying to convince?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

It was Netanyahu’s voice talking about reasons for striking Iran overlayed on top of images that were straight up propaganda. I’ll try to find the video somewhere and post it here if I do. It seemed like it was just trying to convince the American people that the strikes on Iran are necessary.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My reaction whenever I see this piece of shit pop up anywhere: I don't like you, jerk-off

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This is the only article that I could find talking about it. It has different examples than the one that I saw though. I’m guessing the ones in the article are more catered towards Europeans https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/19/iranian-missiles-could-strike-europe-warn-israeli-ads/

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

This is like being in 2001 all over again. "~~Iraq~~ Iran has ~~Weapons of mass destruction~~ nuclear weapons and we need to save its women".

Saving women by bombing them to death.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He is right for all the wrong reasons. There are only bad sides in this conflict.

The world will be a lot better without both those authoritarian regimes.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

What a fucking stupid excuse. That's like force feeding fat people in case they lose weight.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

I really don't know how to fight the obvious propaganda. It seems like it would help if we had a news media that could and would call it like it is but we'll never see headlines like "Netanyahu uses blatantly hollow rhetoric to try to justify a genocidal war he started in a desperate attempt to stay in power".

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I don’t know why obvious propaganda works on so many people. People I assumed had functional brains, just turn them off whenever the online. It’s fucking maddening, and I don’t see any way to combat it.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Yes, fighting for women's rights and their bodies by blowing them into a fine red mist.

I would tell him to kiss my ass. But I would rather he suck the shit out of my asshole.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

This sounds just like all the ridiculously hollow propaganda Putin was dropping for justifying the attack on Ukraine.

"We're rescuing them from uh, really bad people, er... By invading them, yes. They wanna be Russian so bad!"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

This is the propaganda every single occupiers used

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I recall this being the major complaint from Americans about ending the permanent war we had going in Afghanistan too.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

what would mina amini say?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

weird considering how they're molesting and trafficking refugees like it's their job that he'd ever bother to say this.

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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