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Malala Yousafzai criticised for ‘feminist’ Broadway collaboration with Hillary Clinton – Middle East Eye
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai have made their Broadway production debut this month with the musical Suffs. However, news of the show was not music to everyone's ears.
Critics took to social media to accuse the pair of double standards and silence over the plight of Palestinian women in Gaza amid ongoing Israeli bombardment, while producing and promoting a musical about the early 20th-century suffragette movement in the US.
Malala co-producing a musical about the American women's suffrage movement while being silent about the horrific atrocities being committed against women and girls in Gaza & actively collaborating with a vocal champion of Israel, posted one user on X, formerly Twitter. Irony has never been more stark.
Clinton, who ran for president in 2016, has promoted herself as an advocate for feminism and womens rights.
This has prompted many online users to highlight what they say is the"glaring hypocrisy"of Clintons backing of Israel despite several reports on Israels human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls, including sexual abuse.
Yousafzai, on the other hand, became a household name in the fight for girls educationafter she was shot in 2012 for speaking out against the Pakistani Talibans restrictions on girls access to education. At 17, she became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate in 2014 for her activism.
Social media users expressed their disappointment with her collaboration with Clinton amid Israels targeted strikes oneducational institutions in Gaza and the violence that has forced schools in the occupied West Bank to close and turn to remote learning.
Malala herself has been relatively muted on the devastation of the education system in Gaza. Whatever little shes said, has been muted platitudes, said one user.
Social media users have also criticised Yousafzai for partnering with warmonger Clinton, who as secretary of state under President Obama oversaw deadly drone strikes that killed hundreds of civilians, including children, in the activists native Pakistan.
Malala said drone attacks are fueling terrorism and killing innocents. She's now partnering with Hillary Clinton, who oversaw the drone campaign, said one user. She exposed her double standards with Palestine and can safely be called a pawn for the imperial powers.
Suffs has made its Broadway debut amid tension and fierce criticism of the country's unwavering support and arming of Israels war in Gaza as the US gears up for presidential elections later this year.
Israel's assault has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, 70 percentof whom arewomen and children.
In February, UN experts said they had received reports of Palestinian female detainees being subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault in Israeli detention since 7 October.
The experts added that hundreds of Palestinian women and girls have been arbitrarily detained since the war started.
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Hillary Clinton attacks MAGA Supreme Court and blames Trump for horrifying abortion possibility – Washington Examiner
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced former President Donald Trump over what she sees as a likely Supreme Court decision on abortion.
Clinton was referring to oral arguments in the Supreme Court over whetherIdahos near-total prohibition ofabortionsconflicts with federal emergency medicine statutes. The former unsuccessful presidential candidate laid the blame for the possible decision against a rescinding of the law at Trumps feet.
Breaking: The MAGA Supreme Court majority appears ready to rule that the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness doesnt extend to women with pregnancy complications or who otherwise need abortions, she said Wednesday afternoon. This is horrifying, and it is because of Donald Trump.
We wont allow our daughters and granddaughters to grow up with fewer rights than we had, she added in another post.
Clinton has recently ramped up her criticisms of the Republican who defeated her in the 2016 election. In an appearance on the Defending Democracy podcast, she claimed that Trump was trying to kill and imprison journalists and his opposition.
Trump was like, you know, just gaga over Putin because Putin does what Trump would like to do kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists and others into exile, rule without any check or balance, Clinton said.Thats what Trump really wants.
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After her 2016 loss, the former first lady has continued to speak on behalf of Democrats and stay in the public spotlight, including by hosting a podcast with her daughter, Chelsea.
The Idaho abortion law that earned Clintons attention only allows exceptions for the life of the mother. The Biden administration sued the state under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, arguing that abortion is included under lifesaving medical care. The Supreme Court appeared divided, or even skeptical, of the argument.
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Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai Toast Their New Broadway Show – The New York Times
This is thrilling, Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, said on a chilly Thursday night outside the Music Box Theater on 45th Street, as women in strapless gowns walked a purple carpet.
Ms. Clinton, a noted Broadway superfan, was making her Broadway producing debut with Suffs, a new musical about womens suffrage that traces the campaign for the right to vote from 1913 through the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which was celebrating its opening night.
The show not only arrives in a presidential election year, as states attempt to tighten voting laws, but also as Broadway is bringing more female-centric stories to the stage. Audience interest in such stories has also been strong in the previous week, Suffs ranked in the top 10 of the 36 shows on Broadway in the percentage of its seats filled.
Im so excited that audiences are embracing this story, Ms. Clinton said. Its historic and relevant, and its emotional, and it shows the relationships among these women who fought so hard to get us the right to vote.
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