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Chauvinism towards settlers

שו”תCategory: philosophyChauvinism towards settlers
asked 4 years ago

Hello, Your Honor,
 
A few days ago, a letter from the Bezalel School was published:
To the striking students,
“We, lecturers at Bezalel, wish to express our deep solidarity with your struggle for home and freedom, in light of the police violence and settler violence, the result of government policy, which have come to be expressed even more strongly in the events of recent days in Sheikh Jarrah, at the Nablus Gate and at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
We understand very well the difficulty of studying in the institutions of the occupying and oppressive nation in general, and even more so these days.
Alongside this, loyalty to our role as teachers and educators, and out of belief in the power of higher education to contribute to social and political change, we are committed to finding a way to help you continue your studies as much as you wish and as much as possible, even under the current conditions.
We appeal to all lecturers at Bezalel to join this call or to express their support for the struggle.
 
I want to understand the chauvinism that is inherent here. Why do the writers refer to themselves as either female or male, in order to provide adequate representation for all genders, while they simply call my public ‘settlers’?
Why are they ignoring me, a settler in every way, in the heart and soul of Avriya and Gidiya?
Why is my dear public represented in their eyes as a male-only public? What about the girls, the teenagers, and the women? Do we not exist?
I would love for you to explain to me how feminism only works on their side.
 
Thank you very much.
 


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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago
Perhaps they think that only male settlers participate in violence. 🙂

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U.m replied 4 years ago

Doesn't that seem like a troll to you?

אודליה replied 4 years ago

The determination of what constitutes ‘violence’ is political.

In any case, there is no type of active activity that my partner and his friends engage in that my friends and I avoid.

מיכי Staff replied 4 years ago

So it's worth updating them.

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