If our solidarity stops where our politics begin, we are not actually fighting for women.
We are just picking and choosing in accordance with our politics, not humanity or injustice *wherever* it is.
To every woman whose trauma has been erased or debated, I see you.
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Denial is its own form of violence.
To look a victim in the eye and say "I didn't see it, so it did not happen" ignores the reality that sexual assault thrives in the shadows.
3/4
It is why it is heartbreaking to watch many people, including other women, demand a level of "proof" from Jewish women, dead and still alive, especially by those who were not there to witness it.
2/4
On a day meant to celebrate women, the weight of being unheard can feel like a second assault. On #InternationalWomensDay, I grappled with a troubling silence.
As a survivor, I know that "Believe Women" should not be a conditional slogan or a political bargaining chip.
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Simon, that is a super picture ❤️
I thought I was the only one coming to this conclusion. It is heartbreaking to see.
🤭
Wait a moment. You are in the US? 🤭
What does a Special Envoy of the Shield of Americas do?
He *thinks* he is not. Yet, I am the quintessential Jamaican Jewish mother so he *will* always be my little boy.
At this point, I am not a mother. I am the Bank of Little Blew.
I am glad to hear that it is not just me.
This week's column: the Green surge is in part because Labour consciously decided they didn't want the votes they got in 2024:
Okay I feel like this is going to come up a lot in the next 24 hours so let's just clear this up:
Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader allegedly killed today, is/was *not* the same person as Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader who came to power in the 1979 revolution.
And, worse for *everyone.*
Not to mention that the power is not solely with the Supreme Leader. I dare not think if, and how, the IRGC will react.
On Twitter, there is sentiment that his death is the beginning of peace in the Middle East.
Yet, the sense of inescapable unease is murky and cloudy for so many reasons.
It could be that people would stop seeing him as part of the brand on the doorstep and on polling day.
"Officially, the parliamentary elections are set for autumn [October 2026]. But if the Knesset fails to pass the 2026 state budget by 31 March, the government will dissolve automatically."
www.chathamhouse.org...
At lunchtime today, before I found out about the US-Israel-Iran conflict, I was deep into The Rest Is History, Episode 636: Revolution In Iran | Fall of the Shah (Part 1).
therestishistory.com/episodes/fal...
Claiming to help, when it is not the driver, not only costs lives. Historical records frequently show that such interventions result in complex, often detrimental, outcomes in many ways.
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Analysts and activists also point to the Syria or Libya scenarios. They fear that strikes intended to "liberate" will instead lead to a long term civil war or state collapse, which would be catastrophic for the millions of people living there.
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Iranian civil society has released many statements about liberation growing from them rather than imported. Some argue that war destroys the very foundations of the social movements that have been built with pain and effort over decades.
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Even Mehdi draws a sharp line between international support (diplomatic/legal) and interference (military), which he condemns. Activists argue the "liberation" line is a perfect cover for the regime to rebrand internal protesters as "foreign agents" with more brutal violence.
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Prominent activists inside Iran, such as Mehdi Mahmudian, have stated that while Iranians want the clerical establishment gone, change must come from within, not as the result of foreign intervention.
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People from organisations like the Atlantic Council note that while military operations are framed as creating conditions for regime change, they often trigger immediate retaliatory cycles that further endanger the very people they claim to support.
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Think tanks point out that air strikes alone have almost never successfully "liberated" a population or ended a dictatorship. Instead, they destroy civilian infrastructure, making people's lives, for example already struggling with a collapsing economy, even more unbearable.
2/8
The "liberation" narrative for strikes on Iran is dangerous. Claiming and using this puts millions in the crossfire and civilian lives at risk. History and activists, including within Iran, rarely support military strikes leading to liberation which makes it reckless to use.
1/8
Why does he use capital letters where there should be none?
New legislation in the Knesset aims to ban any prayer at the Kotel not approved by the Haredi Rabbinate. Under the bill, non-conforming religious services could lead to 7 years in prison. This is a heavy blow to religious pluralism at the Kotel yet seems quiet on Bsky.
www.jta.org/2026/02/23/i...
