Rad-ish

(nitpicking SWANA is not the issue, although the term seems to be deployed here instead of MENA very intentionally, as part of the effort to erase Israelis).

tabletmag:

The media is at it again, and the latest NY Mag is way worse than it looks. Naturally, we read the main articles so you don’t have to.

Yes, these are real.

I don’t know how we’re supposed to combat this or impress upon non-Jewish audiences how completely bonkers, frighteningly discriminatory, and nefariously antisemitic and xenophobic a piece like this. its entire purpose isn’t to uplift anyone, it is to cast suspicion upon and attempt to ostracize and force out and culturally erase one specific people.

“the Jews are not a part of us. no matter where they live, they are foreigners. unwelcome. inhuman. invaders. their existence victimizes ours. they have no culture, unlike us. they are puerile and violent. they are thieves. they have no food that isn’t stolen. they create no meaningful art. they don’t contribute, they just leech off of the rest of us. we are subjected to them and forced to do business with them, and it’s harmful to our morals and our society. we must not normalize tolerating them.”

Marzieh Nieri, 23, was executed at Qazvin Central Prison after a court rejected her account of wounding a man who had attempted to assault her, bringing the number of women executed in Iran since the start of 2026 to at least 14.

Iran executed a young woman at dawn on Saturday who said she had acted in self-defence against a sexual assault, as authorities simultaneously handed a second woman ten death sentences in a separate case involving the killing of elderly men she had married.

Marzieh Nieri, 23, was executed at Qazvin Central Prison. Iran Human Rights said she had been forced into marriage at 17 under family pressure.

The incident that led to her execution occurred in October 2021, when she was 18.

At her trial, Nieri said one of her husband's business partners had attempted to assault her after becoming inebriated and that she wounded him with a kitchen knife in self-defence. Her husband was also killed during the confrontation.

Nieri turned herself in to the police four days after the incident, after going to her brother's home.

The court rejected her self-defence claim and, following a request from the victims' families for qisas — retribution in kind under the Islamic Republic's law — sentenced her to death.

Iran Human Rights said her execution brought the number of women executed in Iran since the start of 2026 to at least 14.

The executions come against a backdrop of sharply rising execution rates for women in Iran. The US State Department said at least 61 women were executed in Iran in 2025 — the highest figure in 25 years and roughly 70% more than the previous year. It described Iran as far ahead of any other country in the number of death sentences carried out against women.

Killing a husband or partner is one of the most common charges in cases involving women on death row in Iran. Iran Human Rights said at least 21 of the women executed in 2025 had been sentenced to qisas for killing their husbands or fiancés.

Women's rights organisations say many of those women had a history of domestic violence before the killing, and that forced marriage at a young age, economic dependence, restricted access to divorce and limited legal protection leave many women with few options for escaping abusive relationships.

Qisas is a principle in Iranian law derived from Islamic jurisprudence under which the family of a murder victim has the right to demand execution of the convicted killer, or to accept financial compensation — known as diyya, or "blood money" — in lieu of the death penalty.

Iranian courts can only carry out a death sentence in such cases with the explicit consent of the victim's next of kin.

When men meme about protecting Latino men, they meme about protecting their buddies, the guys. They meme about them being equal, being human

As if Joanne couldn't get any shittier, she misgendered and insulted a woman who called for support, all because the woman had PCOS/PMOS and "didn't sound feminine enough."

Fuck her.

Some man rang a rape crisis hotline with bad intent and implausible story to harass rape crisis hot line workers and troon losers are framing this as some poor victimised baby who was trapped and violated (his details are not published dumbasses) and of course he would hang up (when he figured out she was already onto him) and how dare a rape crisis hotline record calls like it isn’t standard practice to record phone calls

PCOS does not make women look and sound exactly like men (I would know I have PCOS)

I find it extremely offensive that you are using my medical condition in your shitty gender identity ideology

Stop wasting time on services for rape/abuse victims

These services exist to help female rape victims not for your weird gotchas

We had to be extremely careful because on *several* occasions this individual turned out to be a male who was extremely angry that our workers had assisted his ex-wife or girlfriend in leaving or divorcing him. One woman in 2006 was badly injured in this exact ploy. When we got to the point of stating that we would provide pickup services with a female police officer present, suddenly those calls ended.

Yes, there are many men who ring up and masturbate while describing sexual violence, and there's many men who ring up and just try to waste the time of the women running the phone lines. But there are also men who will try to manipulate workers into a physically unsafe situation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/politics/teen-pregnancy-prevention-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zlA.Ioff.ReCQIZlwD5RB

at this point it is a KNOWN fact that proper sex education prevents teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy is at an all-time low in the US, and yet, Republicans want to go back to abstinence-only education... wonder why...

They said this in a post including that it’s okay to kill Zionists and they explicitly support all armed resistance

1. Your parents were born to muslim parents so they’re automatically muslim. You’re automatically a muslim too. You didn’t choose your religion and you can’t opt out of it or you will be executed.

2. The compulsory hijab law makes you a criminal if you choose not to wear hijab even tho you didn’t choose to be a muslim and you don’t consider yourself a muslim but the regime has forced you into that role whether you like it or not. And when you ‘break that law’, they can do with you as they please.

3. little girls as young as 7 yrs old are forced to wear hijab at school even tho the islam itself says the age is 9. and all the schools are gender segregated so imagine how they force you to get used to hijab even when you’re just surrounded by other girls. And all day long at school they tell you horrible stories about what will happen to you in hell if someone sees even a strand of your hair.

4. the regime modifies all the textbooks, story books, cartoons and movies to represent the ideal woman with full on hijab. The iranian media is ordered to photoshop every photo of a woman that may be showing a little skin. And if they’re iranian, no hair is supposed to be seen or that will be photoshopped away. Women are mostly excluded from billboards and tv commercials.

5. imagine going to work or meeting up with a friend when suddenly the morality police kidnap you in broad daylight and force you into a van to take you to a station where they will treat you like a criminal and if you don’t agree to get humiliated and do as they say, they will put you in prison. And in case of Mahsa Amini and so many more before her, they will beat you to death. My sister was barely 18 when she got kidnapped and they didn’t let her call home and she’d been so fucking scared and we had no idea where she was. Imagine all the psychological trauma.

6. If you’re in a car and not wearing hijab they will fine you and seize your car. So when u get into a taxi the driver will ask you to keep your hijab on otherwise they’ll get fined. And if you refuse they’ll ask you to get off the car.

7. And its not just about hijab. In Ramadan, they get even more vicious. If they catch you eating or even drinking water on the street they will give you lashes as punishment and even imprison you for breaking the law. If you work in a state-owned company it’s even worse. They will close the cafeteria and take away the water dispensers. All restaurants are banned from delivering food before iftar. It’s a fucking mess. Everyone has to pretend they’re fasting or they’ll be severely punished.

8. And how could I forget about this! iranian women are banned from singing! the islamic regime prohibits women’s singing voices to be heard by men so imagine the horror of having 50% of the population banned from ever becoming a singer. If they identify a female singer in iran, they will take her to jail and force her to repent her sins in the most humiliating way so that she will never dare sing again.

9. And every time the regime gets wind of a private gathering of men and women trying to have fun and live their fucking private lives, the police crash the party and take everyone to jail bc the Islamic regime bans iranian men and women from having fun.

10. Did you know that the islamic regime doesn’t allow women’s faces to be printed on their obituaries or headstones? They put a flower for our faces instead and if they see a headstone with a woman’s face printed on it they’ll smash it to pieces. That’s how religious dictatorship continues to oppress and erase women even after their deaths.

So if you see Islam has become for many iranians a symbol of oppression and torture and discrimination, that’s why. The regime uses islam as a weapon to silence and punish anyone who opposes them. You can love islam all you want from the safety of your home in a free country and talk about how kind and benevolent the religion is, but in iran, it’s a whole different story.

Our economy is fucked. All govt officials are corrupt as fuck. Most websites are banned in iran. Even tumblr is banned. The world has cut the iranian ppl from many services. We don’t have intl credit cards like visa card. Amazon doesn’t do delivery to iran. We cant get netflix, spotify or even a gamepass subscription. we don’t get any Apple services here. iran isn’t listed as a country you could choose when signing up for a lot of services. and when we decide to leave iran and escape this hellhole, every country out there will make it sooo much harder for us to get a visa just bc we had the misfortune to be born in iran at the wrong time.

This is the story of iran for the past 44 years. Held hostage by a corrupt regime that uses religion to suppress and torture the people and being abandoned by the rest of the world bc our lives don’t matter.

 “We have injuries all over our bodies, everything is swollen. We went through what felt like a terror attack. It was horrifying.”

An Israeli mother, 62, and her daughter, 23, were brutally beaten in Thailand by a French tourist.

“He started beating me viciously,” the mother said. “My daughter tried to protect me and was beaten too. We both fought him. I was hit in the head, and at some point I apparently lost consciousness.”

The two women were on the Thai island of Koh Phangan when they were approached by a French national asking where they were from. When they said Israel, he became irate and demanded a debate.

They told him they did not want to discuss Israel/Palestine, and he appeared to walk away, after stating he was "against violence." Then he launched himself at the mother and started biting her ear and punching her until she lost consciousness.

Attacking women on vacation will not help Palestinians. Everyone silent about this violence isn't helping anyone, either. 

All you are doing is harming innocent Jews.