This article is the second in a two-part series examining the March on the DNC, a four-day, pro-Hamas protest even outside the Democratic National Convention. To read Part One, click here.
Caution: Contains brief description of terrorist atrocities.
Candidates’ stance on “women’s rights” will undoubtedly influence the presidential race this November, but constituents seem increasingly divided over what those rights should look like.
This chasm was particularly evident outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week, where Planned Parenthood offered women free abortions and self-described feminists defended Hamas.
Some women’s groups, like Code Pink, actually connect the two issues, arguing that supporting women’s rights requires supporting abortion access and “Palestinians right to resist the violent Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
The Coalition to March on the DNC, which refers to Hamas as “the Palestinian resistance,” also supports abortion access, which it calls a “reproductive right,” according to its list of demands:
We demand that the Democratic Party act to defend women’s, reproductive, and LGBTQIA+ rights.
Hamas, of course, cares nothing for these issues. Yet Code Pink, Chicago for Abortion Access, the Palestinian Feminist Collective and other women’s groups enthusiastically participated in the March on the DNC 2024 , a four-day pro-Hamas protests event. Here are some highlights:
Underneath marchers efforts to rebrand the Israel-Hamas war a “feminist issue” lies an argument that goes something like this: Women in Gaza are suffering under indiscriminate Israeli bombing, and many don’t have access to maternal health care. If you care about women’s rights, you should care about the women suffering in Gaza, which means who should support Hamas.
Women and children in Gaza are absolutely suffering and deserve our prayers, compassion and aid. But caring for their plight doesn’t require backing a terrorist organization. This should be painfully obvious, but pro-Hamas feminists like those outside the DNC tend to omit context exposing Hamas as the true terrorists.
Israel is portrayed as the aggressor, but the Israel-Hamas war only began after it killed 1,200 Israeli civilians and kidnapped 250 more a massive sneak attack. Despite multiple attempts to negotiate, 105 hostages remain in Hamas’ custody — 15 women, two children under five-years-old and 33 dead people that have not been returned to their families.
Israel is accused of bombing civilians, but Hamas hides behind civilian targets to maximize casualties. A 2019 NATO review of Hamas’ use of human shields reads:
The brief further notes that one of Hamas’ most common strategies is, “firing rockets, artillery, and mortars from or in proximity to heavily populated civilian areas, often from or near facilities which should be protected according to the Geneva convention [like] schools, hospitals or mosques.”
So, Hamas started the war and sacrifices civilians to make Israel look brutal — why would feminists defend them? Would women be better off under Hamas’ control?
One need only look at October 7 to see that they would not.
Hamas perpetrated widespread sexual violence in their attack on Israeli civilians, with Israeli authorities documenting and publishing evidence of gang rape, genital mutilation and necrophilia. First responders told the U.N. of murdered women found with bloody or missing clothes, shattered pelvises, gunshot wounds through their breasts and foreign objects in their genitalia.
As if that weren’t enough, human rights organizations (even antisemitic ones) freely recognize women’s inequality under Hamas. Gazan women are frequent victims of honor killings, which Reuters defines as “the murder of a female relative under the premise that she brough shame or dishonor to her family, often through expressions of sexual autonomy.”
In its 2023 report, Amnesty International found that 59% of married women and girls in Gaza experience domestic violence — a number expected to rise during the Israel-Hamas war. Less than 2% of abused women ever report crimes to the police. In one harrowing story, Hamas arrested two women escaping their father’s abuse and returned them to his house.
Bottom line: Hamas — not Israel — oppresses women. Inflaming the so-called “resistance” only empowers a terrorist group that treats women as expendable.
Though this information is freely and widely available, I doubt many pro-Hamas feminists will change their minds. Code Pink and the Palestinian Feminist Collective are deeply deluded if they think supporting Hamas will make Gazan women’s lives better — and that level of mental gymnastics is hard to undo. Instead, let this be a lesson for conscientious citizens: The term “women’s rights” gets thrown around like a football, but it doesn’t always mean what you think it means.
If you’re not thinking clearly, someone might convince you to support a sexually violent terror group in the name of feminism.
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