The following article is a transcript of a speech comrade Eleni Mitsou made at a feminist solidarity public meeting for the Palestinian people. The public meeting, which took place in Athens on January 19, 2024 was organized by 4 feminist organisations under the title “There is no free country without free women“.
Today’s event takes place after 105 days of war of extreme brutality. In the recent months we have seen bombings of schools and hospitals, mass killings of civilians. There is no safe place in Gaza. What is happening is genocide. A genocide broadcasted live on our screens.
One of the most shocking images, described by one of the previous speakers from Palestine, is that of mothers writing the names of their children on their bodies, in order for them to be recognised and buried together with their parents if they are among the victims
The propaganda machine of the Israeli state and its allies completely distorts reality. They call the turning of Gaza into rubble and the killing of thousands of people “right to self-defense against the October 7th Hamas attack”.
This propaganda machine also uses pseudo-feminist “arguments”. It tries to use feminism as a weapon against the Palestinian people. I will refer to two issues that are being discussed at an international level. Read more here