{"id":348821,"date":"2026-01-14T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=348821"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:40:00","slug":"national-council-of-jewish-women-shocked-high-profile-feminists-standing-in-solidarity-with-randa-abdel-fattah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=348821","title":{"rendered":"National Council Of Jewish Women shocked high-profile feminists standing in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The peak body representing Jewish women in Australia has demanded high-profile feminists standing in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah after she was banned from Adelaide Writers Week<\/a> to \u201cexplain themselves\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Council Of Jewish Women Australia says it is shocked that the discussion of Abdel-Fattah<\/a>‘s de-platforming has not focused on her “outrageous statements denying and manipulating the mass sexual violence directed against Israeli women on October 7”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern<\/a> has joined a growing list of international writers and commentators who have decided to boycott the event in protest over the Adelaide festival board’s decision to rescind its invitation to Palestinian-Australian academic \u2014 Abdel-Fattah. “It is beyond belief that supposed feminists like Helen Garner, Jane Caro<\/a>, Kathy Lette, Jacinda Ardern and others are standing in solidarity with a woman who said “this isn’t a #MeToo<\/a> or Believe Women moment,” even in the face of Hamas’ own evidence and a UN report that it was,” said president Council Lynda Ben-Menashe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Have these women never read Abdel-Fattah’s despicable public statements in mainstream and social media, including that ‘Zionists continue to peddle their rape atrocity propaganda’ , and ‘It was always about using the mass rape claims to whip up genocide fervour’ or ‘Nobody wishes the mass rape claims were true more than Zionists’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has joined a growing list of international writers and commentators who have decided to boycott the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":348824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[19194,265,19195,19197],"class_list":["post-348821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-abdel-fattah","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-writers-festival","tag-jane-caro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t