No mention of female genital mutilation or women targeted for honor killings. Not a thing about Palestinian on Palestinian violence, not even if it pertains to women's rights.
Just another opportunity to bash Israel for having the audacity to keep a known female member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in detention.
Well, at least the Leftists in solidarity with the Palestinian far right have company. Nazis like Rense and Gilad Atzmon are very concerned with the female Palestinian Islamic Jihadist too. They're not concerned about women's rights outside of Israel either.
Harriet Sherwood celebrates ‘Int’l Women’s Day’ by championing the cause of Islamic Jihad terrorist
On March 8, the Guardian published “International Women’s Day highlights hurdles obstructing women“, (co-authored by 12 Guardian correspondents, including Harriet Sherwood), on the subjugation of women around the world.
The report didn’t mention female genital mutilation, which is practiced in 28 countries in Africa and parts of the Middle East, which between 100 and 140 million girls and women are estimated to have undergone.
There was similarly no mention of honor killings – 5000 women a year who are murdered (mostly in the Middle East and SW Asia) by their family for dressing in an unacceptable manner, wanting to prevent an arranged marriage, engaging in sex outside marriage, or being in a same sex relationship.
While many of the contributors to the report on the oppression of women across the world dealt with economic inequalities and abortion rights in the West, there wasn’t much to suggest the endemic culture of misogyny and gender apartheid throughout the Middle East.
Harriet Sherwood not only ignored such egregious systemic oppression of women in the Palestinian territories, but devoted 118 words in a 750 word essay about Israel’s detention of a female Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist named Hana Shalabi.
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http://cifwatch.com/2012/03/11/harriet-sherwood-celebrates-intl-womens-day-by-championing-the-cause-of-islamic-jihad-terrorist/
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