A familiar breed of British pundit has resurfaced - loud, self-declared feminists whose outrage is as selective as it is performative, and whose moral compass somehow always aligns with western state power.
They remain silent as Gaza burns, but are quick to find their voice to cheer on Israel and its allies as they threaten to flatten Iran - civilian casualties be damned.
During Israel’s recent strikes on Iran, the radical feminist journalist and co‑founder of Justice for Women, Julie Bindel, branded leftist anti-war feminists “Team Iran” sympathisers. It was a disingenuous, grotesquely misleading and dangerously ideological accusation, but not a surprising one.
What we’re witnessing goes beyond reasoned critique - it is the cynical weaponisation of feminism to uphold state violence.
This is no isolated incident. It’s a pattern.
While I certainly agree with you, I think that the upper crust of TERFdom is much less interested in performative contrarianism than they are in inflicting actual harm. Their ideology is entirely centred on attacking anyone they perceive as a threat to their status. Like most fascists, they justify their merciless cruelty as self-defence and that aligns nicely with Netanyahu’s justifications for his genocidal attacks on Palestinians.