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Maya Mikdashi, associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies and lecturer in the Middle East Studies program at Rutgers University, recently participated in a discussion where she accurately described Hamas's brutality towards LGBTQ Palestinians, claiming that it is ” Should be named “homosexual violence”. ,
Mikdashi participated in a discussion titled “Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-Imperialist Abolition Struggle”, where she emphasized the complaint that Palestinians and Hamas mistreat LGBTQ citizens.
He was also joined by Professor Nadine Naber of the University of Illinois.
Mikdashi's claim? The mere claim of Hamas's brutality against LGBTQ people is a form of bigotry.
Fox News reports:
“So I've been to protests where I've been asked, 'Don't you know what Hamas would have done to you if you were in Palestine.' And we have to start naming it actually homophobic,'' Mikdashi said, as Naber vociferously agreed. “You can't practice violence towards queer people and in really excruciating detail,'' “Can't act like 'Don't you know… A, B, you will be…'. I think we really need to shift that.”
An audience member said, “This is violence.”
“It's homophobic. It’s violent,” Mikdashi agreed.
“Gay violence,” Naber confirmed.
“And we need to move away from just thinking about it in terms of pinkwashing to actually understanding pinkwashing as a form of homophobia,” Mikdashi said.
Naber further suggested that the concept was based on a “racist assumption” that Arab culture is “hyper-misogynistic”.
She asserted that Israel is guilty of sexual assault by virtue of its “colonialist establishment”, saying, “(I)really the practices of rape and sexual assault that have been well documented during Israel's founding and continue today. are not an exception or a secondary effect of colonial violence, but part of Israel's settler white supremacist logic and practices that associate colonized women with the land and nature and assume that to dominate the land since 1948 “To this day it is necessary to dominate the bodies of Palestinian women and their reproductive capacities.”
Watch:
Naber argues that it is racist to believe that Arab culture is overly misogynistic or values respect. He says that Israel uses rape to stop Hamas terrorists from attacking.
The Rutgers recording of this event stops here. Nobody says anything. Nobody does anything. Mikdashi… pic.twitter.com/tSmbT2Veed
– Stu (@thetustustudio) 30 March 2024
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