Hello!
A radfem Palestinian here.
It’s no secret that many of us radfems who fight both Zionists and misogyny (including misogyny from the Gender Ideology movement), face the same tactics and logic from Zionists and gender ideologues alike.
Here are some examples 🧵:
A Zionist would often say, “If you’re anti-Zionist, then you’re anti-Jewish and want to eradicate Jews.”
Similarly, a gender ideologue often says, “If you’re against our Western gender ideology, then you’re anti-trans people and want to eradicate them as humans from existence”.
Zionists have a habit of associating their opponents with groups they themselves don’t claim. For example, if you support the resistance of occupied peoples, they’ll accuse you of supporting Jihadists, saying “What you’re saying aligns with Jihadists, so you must be one of them.”
Likewise, your ideologues will say that if you’re anti-porn industry, anti-sex industry, pro-Female-only spaces, then you’re aligning with the right-wing and religious fundamentalists — and will label you as such.
Both here, use this tactic to cover up weak arguments in a debate.
• Zionists adopt a victimhood narrative, even as they commit ethnic cleansing and kill children.
• Your movement plays the victim while doxxing people, threatening their businesses, silencing/attacking women who say no, and aligning with big corporations and mainstream media.
They always flip the narrative: their victims are called oppressors, and they, the real aggressors, pose as victims.
I could go on comparing Zionists and gender ideologues, because I face these parallels all the time.
Every time I engage with one, I’m reminded of the other.
Zionists force the metaphysical belief that God gave them the land to justify expelling Palestinians.
Gender ideologues force metaphysical beliefs like “Trans Women Are Women” dogmatically on others, attacking and threatening anyone who disagrees, and targeting their livelihood.
Both Zionists and the Gender Movement rely on tactics like straw man, false dilemma, moral blackmail, association fallacy, victimhood gaslighting, and DARVO to silence critics. They also impose metaphysical beliefs as unquestionable truths, attacking anyone who refuses to comply.
Media sides with both of them while they both claim to be powerless.
Example: Headlines shielding Israel, crimes without criminals, sanitizing and downplaying war crimes, false equivalence of sides, blaming victims, erasing Palestinian voices, Israeli casualties prioritized, etc.
Media also underreporting crimes committed by transwomen labeling them simply as “women,” hiding cases of predatory males exploiting gender identity.
Critics, even famous ones like J.K. Rowling, are deplatformed, while problematic gender activists are hosted and celebrated.
Liberal media portrays gender critics as aggressors, and the gender movement as the victim, avoiding balanced debate. Gender activists pressure most media to adopt their narratives, censor dissent, and suppress legitimate concerns about women’s rights, safety, and free speech.
Zionists and the gender movement create a culture of fear through lobbying and intimidation, then grow paranoid, suspecting even people with minor friendly criticism.
Their fear of hidden dissent reveals they know they’ve built an oppressive system — and now they fear its cracks.
Zionists believe that simply being Jewish makes them automatically Indigenous to Palestine, without understanding what “Indigenous” even means.
Some even go farther, claiming every Jew in the world is biologically native to the land, even if their Y-DNA and mtDNA say otherwise.
Similarly, the gender movement assumes that any male claiming to be a woman is automatically a woman, without knowing what “woman” means, and censoring the definition of woman.
Some take this even further insisting that transwomen are biologically female.
Examples of activists:
To sum up:
1- Framing criticism as hate or erasure
2- Guilt by association
3- Playing victim while oppressing others
4- Forcing metaphysical beliefs on others
5- Media power and bias
6- Creating a culture of fear and growing paranoid
7- False claims to identity and biology
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8.
Zionists have done to the term anti-Semitism what gender ideologues have done to the term transphobia: by labeling every dissenting opinion as hatred, they’ve diluted the meaning of those terms, causing many people to grow indifferent when such labels are used against them.
9.
Labeling criticisms toward Zionism as anti-Semitism, rather than engaging with them, is a tactic to silence dissenters.
Likewise, branding dissenting women as TERFs even when they’re not radfems, serves the same purpose: to intimidate into silence and suppress any challenge.
10.
Zionists label any anti-Zionist Jewish person as a “self-hating Jew” or a “useful idiot”.
Likewise, genderists tend to shun any queer person who tries to be even slightly reasonable or questions the movement’s excesses by labeling them a pick-me queer or a self-hating trans.
11.
Zionists weaponize cancel campaigns against artists and activists who speak out against the IDF to damage their careers.
Likewise, the gender id movement works to harm its critics by doxing them, campaigning to reduce their opportunities in media, and deplatforming them.
12.
A common Zionist tactic is emotional blackmail to prioritize their feelings over the lives of Palestinians.
Likewise, the gender movement seeks to guilt you into centering the harm to their feelings above the material damage they inflict on women, children, and homosexuals.
13.
Zionism led many democratic countries, like the US, UK, and Germany, to roll back legal protections for freedom in order to silence anti-Zionist/anti-genocide voices. Likewise, the gender movement has caused a regression in women’s rights, gay rights, and freedom of speech.
To sum up:
8. Diluting the meaning of prejudice by branding all dissent as such.
9/10. Silencing critics with labels instead of engaging in debate.
11. Targeting opponents’ businesses.
12. Prioritizing feelings over real harm.
13. Undermining freedoms to protect ideology.
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