International Women's Day - Community, DEI, Oppressors vs Oppressed
Jeffrey Levine
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Summary
The importance of communities coming together to address issues such as terror, rape, and women's rights, particularly in light of recent atrocities committed by Hamas and the Palestinians. International Women's Day serves as a reminder of the challenges facing society and the need for continued efforts to promote equality and protect women's rights.
Community, what is the role of a community getting together, whether it is a country, a community, or the United Nations of the world, which is basically a community? While the United Nations has noble standards and practices, it is corrupt.
And we see that the world community is corrupt today. This week we are leading the Parsha Vayahkel, which is to gather as a community, and we are also commemorating International Women's Day, where all the talk will be about the terrible rapes that were massacred by Hamas and Palestinians.
?It is worth taking a moment to pause and consider what challenges face our society, and by and large, except in certain cultures like Muslims and these terrible atrocities where “rape” is condoned, the world has sort of moved on from rape, slavery, hopefully, abuse of women. Or has it?
Here, I am sharing two excerpts one from the Holocaust and one relating from 7th October. When I visited the Mauthausen concentration camp there special section for Jews and another for Prostitutes the latter being for sex slaves.
Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: Perspectives from Ghettos and Camps in Ukraine
The experiences of women in the Second World War with sexualised violence show that some suffering was gender-specific. According to the sources, sexualised violence against Jewish women and girls was not a by-product of the war, but the war itself, organised and controlled by those who denied Jews their right to exist.
"Hamas' sexual violence was a planned and systematic attack and falls under the definition of crimes against humanity"
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari has played a significant role in fighting for international recognition of Hamas’ sexual crimes on October 7. Even after briefing the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and bringing the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict to investigate, she says that her fight continues.”
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D.E.I., diversity, equity, and inclusion
We also have the whole story of D.E.I., diversity, equity, and inclusion, which led to a controversy and a false narrative about that as well. Inclusion of women's rights minorities. Jews are excluded from this whole process. Altogether, International Women's Day this year is very important because it's highlighted the terrible crimes that rape has committed. It's part of war, it's part of terror, and we need to stop it.
DEI? - Diversity, equity and inclusion
In the US, as diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have mainstreamed, so has criticism around them. The letters 'DEI' themselves – let alone the programmes to implement these principles – have increasingly stirred controversy among high-profile leaders, who've taken aim at the concept across both the public and private sectors. Among the loudest opposing voices are hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman and Elon Musk – both billionaires with large social media followings – who launched their attacks beginning late 2023.
The criticism stems from the facts that DEI (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging) itself is a “major contributing source of discriminatory practices” and “is beyond repair and should be shut down
DEI is a set of principles designed to make people of various backgrounds – including socio-economic class, race, gender and physical ability – feel supported, welcomed and safe. In a business context, it's meant to set up marginalised workers for the same success as their peers. These programmes are an integral part of many businesses' core strategies, yet the mere mention of them has pitted politicians and?powerful executives?against proponents of DEI policies and the leaders who implement them.
Let's dig a little deeper at extracts from this article
“How DEI Inspires Jew Hatred - Diversity bureaucracies stoke anti-Semitism on campus.
“After DEI took hold at Penn, anti-Semitic fervour on campus intensified. At first glance, DEI seems to have little connection to the Jewish people or the Jewish state. It is more often associated with efforts to recruit more minority students by lowering admissions standards, creating racially discriminatory scholarships, and setting racial quota.
True, anti-Semitism existed long before the establishment of the first university DEI office. But this worldview has given anti-Semites a pseudo-intellectual and seemingly moral framework through which to spew their hatred. ...
At the heart of DEI is a simple binary: the world is divided between oppressors and the oppressed.
Proponents of DEI cast white people as oppressors and black people as the oppressed. While they apply this frame primarily to America, they often apply it to Israel, too. Apparently, Israel is a bastion of Jewish whiteness, with a racist commitment to shattering the lives of nonwhite Palestinians. In fact, a colleague of mine—a former collegiate DEI director, no less—was told that Jews are “white oppressors” and that it was her job to “decenter whiteness.”
Campus DEI bureaucracies are stoking this hatred, too. In 2021, the Heritage Foundation’s Jay Greene (now a colleague at Do No Harm) looked at the Twitter feeds of nearly 750 DEI officials at 65 U.S. universities and found that 96 percent of their tweets about Israel were critical of the country or anti-Semitic. Many universities have all but muzzled their DEI departments in the past two weeks, doubtless fearing blowback from donors and the broader public. Yet no one should assume that silence suddenly means collegiate DEI departments stand with Israel.”
It is this labelling of Israel as the Oppressor that allows all actions of terror, rape, lies and distortion of history and facts to be legitimate acts.