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Following murder, hundreds of Arab women march against gender violence
Hundreds protest the murder of a woman before her children’s eyes. While some of the male demonstrators preferred to focus on police inaction and racism, the women demanded to speak about what is actually happening inside Arab society. By Haggai Matar and Hagar Shezaf Around 500 women and men marched Friday afternoon in the city…
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Haggai Matar
October 1, 2016
Does Israeli society care when its women are murdered?
At least 18 women, Palestinians and Jews, have been murdered by men this past year in Israel. When will we understand that a racist, violent society does not differentiate between its victims? I couldn’t shake off the murder of Amna Al-Abir from Lyd, whose body was found burned in a forest in a Palestinian Authority-controlled…
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Samah Salaime
November 15, 2015
New name for an old crime: Police get creative with ‘honor killings’
Israeli police, it seems, have finally learned not to use the infuriating term ‘honor killings’ to describe the murder of Arab women. Unfortunately, their replacement is far worse. The good news is that the police arrested suspects in the murder of Bisan Abu Ghanem, and that authorities have apparently learned not to stop calling such…
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Samah Salaime
January 2, 2015
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Who will put an end to the murder of Arab women in Israel?
Ten women from the same family have been murdered since 2000. In failing to protect them, we have failed in coming to terms with the fact that women are independent, free human beings who have exclusive ownership over their bodies. (Translated from Hebrew by Sol Salbe) The first documented murder of a woman in Palestine…
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Samah Salaime
November 4, 2014
WATCH: Arab women protest against domestic violence in Israel
In the past decade, 76 Arab women have been murdered in domestic violence in Israel. The ‘Committee for the Struggle against the Murder of Women in Arab Society’ held an event protesting murder and violence against Arab women. Families of the victims are still demanding justice since most of the murderers are still free.
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