Yesterday I had an email forwarded to me by my old colleagues at WEDO; it was from the Coalition of Women for Peace.
Over the weekend they held vigils and marches in Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv to protest Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.
The above photo is from a Saturday march in Tel Aviv where 3,000 people (including men) participated, from 17 different women’s organizations.
Click here for a short video of the march (it’s in Hebrew).
The email also noted how important the action was “in a society in which the voices of women are always marginalized – and entirely erased during times of war.�
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The march was of course primarily against the war, but not just... the narrator doesn't just mention the evils of war (one of the slogans shouted is, eerily, "We won't kill or be killed for the sake of the US"...), but also talks about the "male capitalist hegemony" and says that there's a connection between "neoliberal privatization" and militarism. In addition, the initial captions also talk about the need to raise the minimum wage. So it was really a general feminist march that used the war as a pretext.