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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

misogyny

Opposition leader Yair Lapid (left) and Yesh Atid MK Meirav Cohen at an emergency meeting following recent cases of gender inequality in public spaces, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 16, 2023, 7:57 pm
Lapid says PM must fire ministers who attack IDF, touts bills on gender discrimination
Opposition chief promotes legislative package after cases of sexism on buses, says they’ll seek to tackle sexual harassment, inequality in top jobs and pay gap
By Michael Horovitz
Iraqi actress Enas Taleb, July 2022. (Ammar Albadri/Photo provided by Enas Taleb via AP)
August 17, 2022, 11:58 am
Economist article on ‘fat’ Arab women panned as misogynistic, body-shaming
Iraqi actress Enas Taleb sues UK magazine for defamation, as controversial piece renews discussion of body image, Western beauty standards in conservative societies
By Isabel Debre and MAGGIE HYDE
View of the Givat Asaf outpost, near the settlement of Beit El in the West Bank on May 15, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
June 11, 2021, 8:15 am
Two settler outposts said to refuse the protection of female soldiers
Citing ‘modesty problems,’ Givat Asaf and Ahia reportedly prefer to pay for private security when the IDF has no male troops available to guard
By ToI Staff
On March 19, 2021, flowers, candles and signs are displayed at a makeshift memorial in Atlanta. A deadly rampage at three Georgia massage businesses, where the employees were mostly of Asian descent, has prompted Asian American women to openly share stories of being sexually harassed or demeaned based on their race. (AP Photo/Candice Choi, File)
March 21, 2021, 10:11 am
‘We are what America looks like’: Hundreds rally to denounce Georgia shooting
Demonstrators across the US protest hate after a man shot to death 6 women of Asian descent; police investigate if attack can be classified as hate crime
By Kate Brumback
Clockwise from top: Article co-authors Dahlia Soussan, Madeline Canfield, and Lilah Peck. (All photos courtesy)
November 12, 2020, 1:17 am
Teens push for end to ‘toxic’ culture of sexuality in US Jewish youth groups
Six young women who met at a Jewish Women’s Archive writing retreat co-author article criticizing objectifying chants, hookup ‘point system’ rampant at meetups
By Cathryn J. Prince
Rabbi Baruch Gazahay in a recorded lecture posted to YouTube. (Screenshot: YouTube)
June 16, 2020, 10:52 pm
Shas candidate under fire for misogyny, racism won’t take Knesset seat after all
Rabbi Baruch Gazahay, who has posted many videos disparaging women and Arabs, drops candidacy amid outcry
By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner
Shas MK Rabbi Baruch Gazahay in a 2016 lesson. (Screenshot: YouTube)
June 16, 2020, 3:03 pm
Incoming Shas MK has said immodest women get breast cancer, reincarnate as cows
Rabbi Baruch Gazahay has posted many videos disparaging women; has said only monkeys accept the theory of evolution; now claims comments ‘taken out of context’
By Michael Bachner
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference after touring the Paulson Electric Company, December 4, 2018, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
November 15, 2019, 4:19 pm
Bloomberg apologizes for being ‘disrespectful’ to women
Democratic US presidential candidate, who has made offensive remarks in the past, says his ‘words have not always aligned with his values’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
El Paso police and FBI continue to investigate the crime scene of the Cielo Vista Mall Walmart shooting on August 6, 2019. (Mark Ralston/AFP)
August 6, 2019, 9:23 pm
US authorities probe motives of gunmen in mass shootings
While El Paso shooter wrote the attack was a ‘response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas,’ friend of Dayton assailant says the rampage appeared motivated by hatred of everybody
By Mark RALSTON
Melvil Dewey, 1851-1931, inventor of the Dewey book-classification system, in 1891. (Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
June 25, 2019, 2:49 pm
US library group expunges Dewey name from medal over anti-Semitism, misogyny
Inventor of the decimal system, who died in 1931, kept Jews and blacks out of his resort and was repeatedly accused of harassing women
By Marcy Oster
Morton Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America (R) called out Natalie Portman for her recent comments on Israel. (Getty Images via JTA)
April 28, 2018, 1:48 am
ZOA chief Klein sorry for inappropriate comments on Portman, female employee
Mort Klein had sparked social media fire for ‘misogynist’ tweet slamming actress over her Netanyahu snub, and then dismissed criticism by citing ‘attractive, smart’ staffer
By ToI Staff and JTA
Morton Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America (R) called out Natalie Portman for her recent comments on Israel. (Getty Images via JTA)
April 27, 2018, 4:00 am
ZOA chief draws ire for calling Natalie Portman beautiful, but not ‘too bright’
Twitter users criticize Mort Klein for ‘misogynist’ tweet slamming Jerusalem-born actress over Netanyahu snub
By Ron Kampeas
Kelly Barbieri (l) editor in chief of The Fresh Toast and comic, writer and Letterman alum Jena Friedman (r) at The Fresh Toast Launch Party at Campeon, New York, on October 5, 2016. (Amy Sussman/Invision for The Fresh Toast/AP Images)
February 16, 2018, 6:23 am
Comedian Jena Friedman: It’s easier to be a neo-Nazi than a woman right now
The Jewish comic appears on Conan and focuses mainly on two subjects in her set: misogyny and neo-Nazis
By Gabe Friedman
Josh Rivers (Facebook photo)
November 16, 2017, 12:36 pm
New editor of UK’s Gay Times fired for anti-Semitic, sexist, racist tweets
Magazine apologizes for causing offense, says it does not tolerate views of Josh Rivers; Rivers himself sorry for ‘hateful and abhorrent’ remarks
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Oren Hazan during a plenum session in the Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 8, 2017, 6:23 am
Likud MK tells colleague she’s too ugly to be a prostitute
Scandal-plagued Oren Hazan again derides female lawmakers, tells Michal Biran in heated Knesset debate ‘nobody would even look at you’
By ToI Staff
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