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This was back in 1980, long before cultural relativism came to rule the day. Yes, one day I’ll write a Memoir; but not just yet.
In response to the rapes near the towns and villages of Bethlehem, Bil’in, Naalin, and Sheikh Jarrah (Shimon Ha Tzaddik), the Israeli and Palestinian peace activists have urged women to dress modestly and even to wear headscarves!
What is more amazing is the failure of such left feminists to support the Palestinian women who are routinely held captive by just such men and who, at least in Gaza, are being increasingly forced to wear hijab, jilbab, niqab.
Yesterday, I published a piece in Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) in which I discussed this distressing trend. I quote a Palestinian woman, Asmaa Al Ghoul, whom I’ve interviewed before, who is now furious that a friend of hers was not allowed to graduate from university without donning hijab and that her younger sisters are being forced to do so in secondary school.
I end my piece this way:
It is ironic that so many western “progressive” activists are willing to sign petitions to “free Gaza.” But free Gaza from whom? From Hamas, from rigid Islamist misogyny, or from the Israelis who long ago, left Gaza and who are not now imposing such restrictions on women.
