Blog by Pragna Patel (Project Resist) and Maryam Namazie (One Law for All)

For many years, some of us have campaigned against the growth of Sharia councils and the creation of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal because we recognise that all such religious systems of dispute resolution, by their very nature, are tied to a rising politics of religious fundamentalism that targets the rights and freedoms of 

women.

Blog by Feminist Dissent

It is self-evident that this is not a symmetrical war or a war without context. While both Hamas and the Israeli state represent fundamentalist and anti-democratic forces of terror and repression that feed off each other, they do so in a profoundly unequal dynamic in which Israel is the dominant force, given the sheer might of its military power and western backing.