Major Palestinian Demonstration Against Palestinian Honor Killings
Never Heard About It?

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
March 18, 2010

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/715/palestinian-demonstration-against-honor-killings

Excerpt:

While Vice President Joe Biden played the part of a dishonored diplomat in Jerusalem, his wife, Jill Biden, was visiting the Bedouin Women's Empowerment Project in the Negev.

I hope she understood just how "empowered" these women really are. Sixty of these Israeli Arab Bedouin women recently came in busloads from the Negev to Nazareth to join a total of 500 Israeli Arabs in a protest against honor killings in their communities. They constituted the largest continent of women, "thanks to the work of Hind el Sana, a lobbyist in Shatil's Bedouin Women's Leadership Project. The Project, which is funded by the American State Department in conjunction with The New Israel Fund, is run in collaboration with Ma'an, the Forum of Arab Women's Organizations in the Negev, where el Sana is based.

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