Liel Leibovitz..
Tabletmag.com..
18 August '17..
Everyday Feminism is a popular progressive blog that boasts more than 4.5 million visitors each month from 150 countries. And earlier this week, it demonstrated its commitment to the true spirit of feminism by publishing an article that denounced the most successful female movie star working today and praising instead a terrorist convicted of murdering two innocent young men.
Repeating Linda Sarsour’s odious claim that one cannot be both a Zionist and a feminist, the article argued that “feminism is built on the liberation of all women and their families and requires peace, dignity, and security for all—things which the Israeli occupation of Palestine goes directly against.” It then called on readers to resist normalizing Gadot’s “Zionist feminism,” and offered instead alternative wonder women to adore. Rounding up the list? Rasmea Odeh.
Odeh, Everyday Feminism breathlessly told its liberal-minded readers, was “a courageous freedom fighter” targeted “because she was a Palestinian woman.” Not mentioned in the article was the pesky business of the bomb Odeh had laid in a crowded Jerusalem supermarket in 1969, killing 21-year-old Leon Kanner and 22-year-old Eddie Joffe, two Hebrew University students buying groceries for a field trip, and injuring nine others.
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