NARRATIVE – The silence of associative circles and major feminist figures on the rapes committed during the Hamas attack marked the definitive break between intersectional feminists and universalist feminists. An assumed opposition, and sometimes violent.
«October 7 was a total tipping pointsighs Mona Jafarian, Franco-Iranian feminist. Because until then, intersectional feminists insulted and inveighed, of course, but they did not go any further. After the Hamas attack, they showed themselves violent, in their actions and in their speeches against those with whom they did not agree“. A year after the terrorist raid, the co-founder of the Femme Azadi collective no longer has hope for the fight that nevertheless guides her life: “I understood that feminism in its current form was dead.»
His observation is the result of a reflection carried out almost a year ago, in the days following October 7, 2023. That Saturday, the armed forces of Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group, attacked the Jewish state, by land, air and sea. At dawn, hundreds of Islamists killed simultaneously – on the occasion of a music festival Nova and to their homes – 1180 citizens…
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