Sexism

Labor party leader Merav Michaeli at the party's conference ahead of the Israeli elections in Hod Hasharon, March 14, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Can she handle it? How the Israeli media covers women politicians

Women running for the Knesset have to overcome not only voters' gender stereotypes, but a media landscape that is heavily skewed in men's favor.

By Noa Balf March 23, 2021

Women protesters shout slogans during a SlutWalk against sexism in Tel Aviv, May 9, 2014. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Why are so many Israeli women subjected to sexual harassment?

Reported incidents of sexual harassment, assault and rape by high-ranking Israeli officials are flooding their way into the media. Why is the violation of women’s bodies and dignity so endemic in Israeli society? Several days ago a story broke in Israel that has been dominating the headlines ever since: a senior Israeli army officer has…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland March 3, 2016

'Netanyahu at War' Frontline

‘Netanyahu at War’: An engaging but deeply flawed documentary

Twenty three men and three women tell the captivating story of Netanyahu’s rise to power, and how he ended up on a collision course with the leader of the free world. Yes, 23 men and three women. “Netanyahu at War,” a PBS Frontline documentary about Benjamin Netanyahu’s rise to power and the background to his…

By Lisa Goldman January 5, 2016

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Yair Lapid (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Yair Lapid on Hillary handshake: ‘I met my buddy’s wife…’

Israel’s Mr. Liberal went to the Saban Forum in Washington D.C. and met this woman he’s seen somewhere, a lawyer maybe? Bill’s wife, you guys know Bill. Yair Lapid, leader of the third largest party in the opposition (a far cry from his briefly held title of the great white hope of Israeli moderates, way…

By Dimi Reider December 7, 2015

Woman illustration (Photo: Truthout.org/flickr)

Misogynist ad campaign exposes hypocrisy within the left

By Anonymous I was sexually assaulted by a left-wing activist last summer. The perpetrator was – and still is – a guy with all the right credentials: post-colonialist, post-Zionist, anti-capitalist, and so on. Most significantly, he considers himself a feminist. Until he assaulted me, we were friends. I had met him through my involvement in…

By +972 Magazine March 11, 2012

Israeli Foreign Minister and chairman of Israel Beitenu, Avigdor Lieberman (photo: Israel IMFA / flickr)

Why isn’t Lieberman capitalising on the women’s rights issue?

Avigdor Lieberman’s party, Yisrael Beitenu, owes much of its clout to flying the secularist banner and opposing the growing religious influence over Israeli public life. So why aren’t they standing up against gender segregation? Put simply, they now have much bigger fish to fry. The subject of segregation between men and women in Israeli public…

By Dimi Reider December 19, 2011

IDF censors Defence Minister, Chief of Staff’s sexist joke

Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Benny Gantz shared a joke about female soldiers participating in a military exercise “to sing during break time,” with Barak tipping Gantz about a ministry employee who can “sing without her uniform”. The IDF then tried to block reports of the joke. Censorship and limitations on freedom…

By Dimi Reider December 6, 2011

No, a woman’s voice is not “pubic” – the song must go on

A recent protest from within the IDF against the sound of women singing made it all the way to the High Court. But the event is only one in a string of state-sanctioned assaults against women’s rights, led by Israel’s religious establishment, which likens women to their genitalia By Hila Benyovits-Hoffman | Translation: Dena Shunra Some six weeks…

By +972 Magazine October 25, 2011

“Sexy Israel” getting treatment for flotilla nightmares

(Tlatest update on the role of the Information Ministry can be found here) I’m somewhat of a fool for excruciatingly bad Hasbara videos, but this one surely takes the cake: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSXXuZRPNM&feature=channel_video_title[/youtube] From this video, we learn “Israel” is massively paranoid, even somewhat hysterical, believing edited second-hand evidence from biased sources (IDF spokesman’s video from the…

By Dimi Reider July 6, 2011

The war against women

Crimes against women – such as domestic abuse, sexual assault and sexual harassment – are extraordinarily widespread. Statistics say that the majority of women, quite possibly the vast majority of them, fall victim to at least one of these crimes. Their prevalence is so high, that the cumulative effect can only be compared to the…

By Roi Maor February 19, 2011

Israeli “liberals” make light of sexual assault and assassinations by the IDF

In one day, Israel’s most liberal newspaper made light of sexual assault in the IDF, and the country’s most liberal institution, the High Court of Justice, made light of its own rulings in regards to IDF assassinations Amos Harel, a senior Ha’aretz reporter, writes [Heb] about the aftermath of Yoav Galant’s botched appointment to IDF…

By Roi Maor February 3, 2011