Arab women
[:en]International Women’s Day: Weaving a common future[:]
[:en] Anyone who visited Sindyanna of Galilee in Kafr Qana
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[:en] Anyone who visited Sindyanna of Galilee in Kafr Qana
[:en]Karima from Kufr Qara in the pepper greenhouse. Photo Noa
[:en]Published in The Marker, 19 July 2016. Written by Michal Schwartz
[:en]The Community Center, Baqa al-Gharbia, 8 March, 2016. “Woman is
An outstanding gathering organized by WAC-Maan and Sindyanna of the Galilee marked International Women’s Day at the Baqa Al-Gharbiyye community center on March 7, 2015.
[:en]Insaf, 32 years old and mother to two toddlers, works
[:en]The data of the Central Bureau of Statistics indicate enormous
Women in white, Jews and Arabs, and like-minded men, marched together along Ben Tsion Boulevard from King George street to the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and HaBima Theater. There was a lot of energy, with calls shouted out to the rhythm given by Asma Aghbarieh-Zahalka of Daam on the megaphone. She shouted: “chauvinism” and the marchers answer “irhal” (“go away” in Arabic). “Exploitation of working women – irhal, sexual assault – irhal, military strikes – irhal”… The Boulevard is too short, it turns out, for real protest. (“Irhal”, in Arabic, you may recall, is the word Egyptian protesters shouted out, calling Mubarak to leave.)
“The government’s promises on employment of Arab women remain unfulfilled”
One after another, in the spirit of the social activists of the beginning of the last century, they stepped up onto the wooden crate on the side of Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard and cried out for a better future.
