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Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy

c/world · u/HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 361 points

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The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights record to justify his heinous war on Iran. This is the man whose genocide of Palestinians in Gaza killed more women and children in its first year than the equivalent period of any other conflict over the past two decades.

“They’ve impoverished you, they’ve given you misery, they’ve given you death, they’ve given you terror, they shoot down your women, leaving this brave, unbelievable woman, Mahsa Amini, to bleed on the sidewalk for not covering her hair,” he told Iranians in an interview with Iran International.

It is incredible to hear Netanyahu call on the Iranian people to rise up against the very things he has subjected Palestinians to. But it is not surprising. I am all too familiar with the ways imperialists, occupiers and invaders weaponise Muslim women’s bodies and rights to justify their wars.

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u/4grams@awful.systems · 10 points

I don’t know why obvious propaganda works on so many people. People I assumed had functional brains, just turn them off whenever the online. It’s fucking maddening, and I don’t see any way to combat it.

u/corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 points

Sometimes I worry that Israel comes off as a bit xenophobic, and in that context may not recognize the rights of others.

u/blattrules@lemmy.world · 13 points

It was Netanyahu’s voice talking about reasons for striking Iran overlayed on top of images that were straight up propaganda. I’ll try to find the video somewhere and post it here if I do. It seemed like it was just trying to convince the American people that the strikes on Iran are necessary.

u/blattrules@lemmy.world · 4 points

This is the only article that I could find talking about it. It has different examples than the one that I saw though. I’m guessing the ones in the article are more catered towards Europeans

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/19/iranian-missiles-could-strike-europe-warn-israeli-ads/

u/thefartographer@lemm.ee · 62 points

You hear that? Netanyahu is woke. We gotta drop this DEI regime!

Alternative take: Netanyahu has the balls and courtesy to flatten entire families instead of just the men. How chivalrous.

u/blattrules@lemmy.world · 37 points

I saw a commercial yesterday that was Israel advertising for the war with Iran. Get that propaganda off my tv.

u/MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 30 points

What a fucking stupid excuse. That's like force feeding fat people in case they lose weight.

u/JacksonLamb@lemmy.world · 21 points

This is like being in 2001 all over again. "~~Iraq~~ Iran has ~~Weapons of mass destruction~~ nuclear weapons and we need to save its women".

Saving women by bombing them to death.

u/Zenith@lemm.ee · 19 points

Islam is hell for women but this is a thin veneer of lies to justify something he already wanted to do. I hope one day no Muslim women exist because Islam hates women so deeply they realize no loving or reasonable god would create a system reliant on their subjugation and leave.

u/Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee · 17 points

Yes, fighting for women's rights and their bodies by blowing them into a fine red mist.

I would tell him to kiss my ass. But I would rather he suck the shit out of my asshole.

u/makyo@lemmy.world · 17 points

I really don't know how to fight the obvious propaganda. It seems like it would help if we had a news media that could and would call it like it is but we'll never see headlines like "Netanyahu uses blatantly hollow rhetoric to try to justify a genocidal war he started in a desperate attempt to stay in power".

u/MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 11 points

This sounds just like all the ridiculously hollow propaganda Putin was dropping for justifying the attack on Ukraine.

"We're rescuing them from uh, really bad people, er... By invading them, yes. They wanna be Russian so bad!"

u/FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 7 points

I recall this being the major complaint from Americans about ending the permanent war we had going in Afghanistan too.

u/SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 6 points

He is right for all the wrong reasons. There are only bad sides in this conflict.

The world will be a lot better without both those authoritarian regimes.

u/RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world · 3 points

weird considering how they're molesting and trafficking refugees like it's their job that he'd ever bother to say this.