Masih Alinejad is an Iranian-American journalist whose “My Stealthy Freedom” and “White Wednesdays” movements gave voice to Iranian women defying compulsory hijab. The Islamic Republic answered with a kidnap plot on U.S. soil and a murder-for-hire scheme, both foiled. She tells Israeli and Jewish audiences plainly that Iranians and Israelis face the same enemy in the regime — and she condemned Hamas's October 7 sexual violence when many activists stayed silent.
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- 23 December 2023
As the world debated the aftermath of October 7, Alinejad publicly called for solidarity with Israeli women, condemning the silence over Hamas's sexual violence and drawing a parallel to the Islamic Republic's assaults on Iranian detainees.
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At the AJC Global Forum in Washington, she told the audience that Iranians and Israelis share the same enemy — the Islamic Republic — saying she felt among family “because we share the same killers.”
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I feel like I am among my family — because we share the same killers.
If we do not unite now, terrorists will certainly commit more sexual assaults against women.
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