| Today on International Women’s Day, the reality of Palestinian women cannot be separated from their tireless resistance to colonial violence and ongoing genocide — which demolishes their homes, threatens their land and throws them in prison cells. Women also carry most of the burden of caring for a grieving community. In Israeli prisons, Israel imposes an even more complex reality on female Palestinian prisoners in general. Apartheid Israel arrests dozens of women from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and an unknown number from Gaza. These women are subjected to the most heinous forms of assault and psychological, physical, and sexual torture. Israel’s violence does not affect Palestinian women alone; its impact extends to women across West Asia and North Africa. As Israel’s wars of aggression against the peoples of the region expand from Lebanon to Syria and from Yemen to Iraq, women across the region confront the human cost of repeated wars and displacement, while sustaining the struggle for liberation and dignity. In waging a ruthless, criminal war of aggression against the people of Iran, the Israel-US genocidal axis is escalating its attempt to impose a might-makes-right order that threatens humanity at large. |
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| Palestine is a feminist cause. In honor of the suffering, sacrifices, and heroic resistance and sumud of Palestinian women, we will continue to escalate pressure against genocidal Israel, including Israeli and complicit companies and institutions. The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and illegal occupation. |
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