Sexism

Images of female Zefat Academic College students vandalized in Safed

The billboards had only been installed a day before the vandalism, and the advertisements featuring male pupils were left untouched.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Posters advertising the Zefat Academic College were vandalized to hide the image of women.
Iranian state media censors legs of foreign officials at UNGA.

'They panic at our ankle': Iran censors legs of Swedish, Finnish FMs at UNGA

Iran, known for its restrictive modesty laws that have seen women murdered for failing to cover their hair, blurred the legs of Finnish FM Elina Valtonen and Swedish FM Maria Malmer Stenergard.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Israel's Roni Ohayon in action during women's goalball at the IBSA World Games in Coventry, Britain August 21, 2023.

Israel Railways settles with Paralympic medalist over gender discrimination case

A supervisor demanded that Roni Ohayon give up a seat for the disabled because an ultra-Orthodox man refused to sit next to her.

|ByAVICHAY CHAIM
Ibtissame Lachgar wearing a top reading that Allah is a lesbian.

Activist arrested for blasphemy in Morocco for 'Allah is a lesbian' T-shirt photo

Ibtissame Lachgar, an LGBT rights campaigner and a co-founder of the Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms, was arrested in Morocco over allegations of blasphemy.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

What was the sexist Israeli ad in 2018?

WIZO also crowns its top offending commercial of the decade ahead of International Women's Day.

MARCH 8, 2019ByAMY SPIRO
A screenshot from the Castro commercial 'Where is the dress from?'

Meretz launches campaign protesting Bnei Brak billboard bamboozle

The Meretz activists will display an electronic changing billboard entirely made up of pictures of women at Dizengoff Center on Friday.

JANUARY 22, 2019ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
Meretz Party Leader Tamar Zandberg holding a sign saying #YouWillNotEraseMe as a protest of her face being removed from Bnei Brak billboards, 2019.

Iraq's new government lacks female ministers

UN Special Representative Jan Kubis lamented the lack of women among the 14 ministers who have been appointed.

OCTOBER 27, 2018BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Veiled women in the northern province of Raqqa, Iraq