Jewish women march for hostages
'Jewish women's rights are human rights too, and we call for the immediate release of them all'
Jewish women around Australia marched for the Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza to mark UN Human Rights Day on Tuesday, December 10.
In Melbourne, members of the community gathered in numbers at lunchtime on the steps of Victoria’s Parliament House to show their solidarity and to proclaim loudly that “Jewish women’s rights are human rights too”.
A similar march took place at Martin Place in Sydney.
National Council of Jewish Women Australia president Lynda Ben-Menashe said, “Today on December 10, UN Human Rights Day, Jewish women’s and communal organisations remind their fellow Australians that human rights apply to all people.
“On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists violated the human rights of thousands of innocent Israeli men, women and children in the most heinous attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. They murdered babies, children, men and women in their homes, in their towns, while they slept, and at a music festival. 254 innocent human beings were abducted as hostages.
“We deplore the exclusion of Jewish people from the world’s care for human rights. There are still 101 Israeli hostages being held by Hamas and other terrorists in Gaza, none visited even once by any human rights organisations.
Hillary Clinton famously said at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, “women’s rights are human rights”. Thirteen of the remaining hostages are Israeli women, who are suffering unimaginable ongoing sexual, physical and psychological abuse.
“Jewish women’s rights are human rights too, and we call for the immediate release of them all.”
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