22 September 2018

Latest updates from Isha L'Isha - Haifa Feminist Center - Sept. 2018

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A queer way out
The politics of queer emigration from Israel 

Book launch at Haifa Feminist Institute - Isha L'Isha
Hila Amit is a Mizrahi lesbian author and an independent researcher.
The book is based on her Phd research, which deals with the immigration of Israeli queers, the event was facilitated by Ruth Preser.

To see photos from the event: 
https://tinyurl.com/yanyt65t




 

"The Impure" directed by Daniel Najenson.

Cinema Hadar and Isha L'Isha held a screening of "The Impure". 

A dark story which took place in Argentina in the early 20th century. The "Impure" was how the Argentinian Jewish pimps were called by the "normal" Jewish community. They were vicious organization leaders and brothel owners who practiced religious lives while trafficking thousands of unfortunate Eastern-European Jewish women. One of them was the director's relative.
The movie was followed by a talk with Dr. Sarai Aharoni, an activist in Isha L'Isha and and active member in our "Trafficking in Women" project.

Gun Free Kitchen Table's representative, Rela Mazali, speaks about personal safety and reacts to Gilaad Erden's plan, the Minister of Internal Security, who is easing restrictions to obtain a permit for owning a gun, which will make hundreds of thousands of additional civilians eligible to carry a firearm.
"Women who live in a violent climate inside their own homes are more in risk when weapons are around. It was proven in many cases around the world that the existence of weapons in the public sphere leads to a rise in homicide, accidents and suicides, Erden's plan ignores all of these facts."

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Women, Health, and Life with Dignity
Anat Horovitz, a long time activist and volunteer in Isha L'Isha - Haifa Feminist Center is the coordinator of a project called "Women, Health, and Life with Dignity," a project which she created with Dina Posniack and Tzviya Dei' under the umbrella of Isha L'Isha.

You can read about the project more in Isha L'Isha's website, please press on the links below:


http://isha2isha.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/introduction-The-Women-Health-and-Life-with-Dignity.pdf

http://isha2isha.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Project-description-Women-Health-and-Life-with-Dignity.pdf
Isha L'Isha representatives, alongside representatives from Physicians for Human Rights Israel, participated in a discussion at the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, headed by MK Aida Tuma. The main issue discussed was the denial of travel permits by Israel Authorities to women cancer patients in Gaza in order to receive treatment.
For the past few years, the World Health Organization has been repeatedly warning about the dire health crisis for cancer patients in Gaza. But what does it mean to be a cancer patient in the Gaza Strip? The health system is failing: there are not enough treatments and methods for diagnosis are insufficient. There is no access to radiation treatments, chemotherapy is only partially available, and medicines are scarce.
Every year, the Palestinian Health Ministry refers thousands of cancer patients for treatment outside of Gaza, to East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and sometimes to Jordan and Israel. However, approximately half of them cannot go because the Israeli Authorities refuse to issue them travel permits. In the last year, there has been a sharp increase in the number of women cancer patients who are denied entrance permits by the various authorities in Israel.
We at Isha L'Isha, together with other civil society organizations, such as "One out of Nine" and "Women and their Bodies" have joined Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) demanding that the authorities in Israel grant women cancer patients permits to travel for treatment purposes. The meeting at the Knesset committee was a result of our join efforts, and we are hoping to see a system-wide solution to the plight of cancer patients in Gaza.
 
Women without Status
Our Women without Status coordinator' Rawyah Handaqlu responds to Israel's law of citizenship and entry.

"A woman without status, whether she is educated and has a profession, will stay at home because she won't be able to obtain a work permit. Each one of the families who suffer from this law go through various experiences but they all share one thing in common, this law destroys families and lives."

To read the entire of the article, please press on this link:

http://www.haokets.org/2018/07/10/%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%93-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%94-%D7%90%D7%97%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%AA%D7%A8/
Haifa Feminist Institute 
 
After a summer of intensive archival work and expanding our library's collection with titles in Arabic and on Arab women, led by Nicole Khayat, a historian and a co-founder of our Women Historians' Forum, we are soon to relaunch our public lectures series: Archive as a Political Action. The first events (in October and November) will host Lior Yavne, the CEO of Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research and talk about promoting victims' rights through research and documentation; and Sharon Maftsir, a social historian and a fellow at the HFI who will discuss emotional archives of romantic love in postcolonial Egypt (events' details can be found in our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HaifaFeministInstitute/ ).
We are continuing to rescue and absorb personal and organizational archives. Currently we are in the process of digitizing Marcia Friedman's Archive. Our lesbian/queer visual archive continuously expands, and now contains the works of over 19 artists as well as historical Fanzines and artifacts this is probably one of the most prominent efforts in Israel to map and collect visual aspect of lesbian and queer life and art. Yael Rosin, a lecturer in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design has initiated and leads this effort.
This fall we also intend to launch our feminist academy-beyond-academia, by offering courses in feminism and gender which are open and affordable for the greater public.
Check our Facebook for more details.

Our annual report for 2017 is out, please check it out here!

http://isha2isha.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Annual-Report-Isha-LIsha.pdf

 


 

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18 September 2018

Commanders for Israel's Security Senior Security Officials Promoting Political-Security Arrangements: The Silver Platter of the Yom Kippur War

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Dear Debra V. Wilson,

Just moments before the onset of Yom Kippur, as so many Israeli families deal with the pain of that horrific war 45 years ago, I'd like to share with you some personal reflections on those testing moments as conveyed to an Israeli correspondent and published earlier today [for English version: click here or here for pdf file].



In a few days I'll be in touch again, to brief you on our ambitious objectives and aggressive plans for major public campaigns starting October and running all the way to Election Day. No, we shall endorse no party or candidate, nor will we attack any. But remaining strictly non-partisan is not synonymous with sitting on our hands. We will be aggressive; we will be loud; we will be all over the place; and we will get public attention to our main battle cry and to its logic and urgency: "No Annexation. Separation!".

How we intend to do that and why we believe our effort might affect not only the public discourse but possibly electoral choices – all that for next time.
For now, just כתיבה וחתימה טובה to you and all who are dear to you.

Sincerely,

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Amnon Reshef
Chairman

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