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Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation QUOTES

Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation QUOTES

1 " Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be debased and ashamed but she will stick it out, or when she runs he will kill her. Ask the politicians who exude delight when they advocate for the so-called traditional family how many women are beaten and children raped when there is no man in the family. Zero is such a perfect and encouraging number, but who, among politicians in male-supremacist cultures, can count that high? "

― Andrea Dworkin , Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation

2 " How many rapes before women learn their place? How many pogroms? How many wives are beaten in thirty-six seconds or in a ten-by twelve-foot room? These questions miss nearly every point that matters: these acts of violence are emblematic acts of terror; they are acts of hatred and hostility; they are murderous in intent; and what’s the name of the guy and his address? The rest is diversion, except for noting that women have the singular good luck to be raped by men who hate them and by men who love them, by men who know them and by men who do not, by husbands, lovers, friends, and invading armies—as well as by serial rapists, serial killers, and any woman-hater who has had a really bad day. "

― Andrea Dworkin , Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation

3 " Freud was one of many who believed that Zionism had no future. As he wrote in a 1930 letter to Dr. Chaim Koffler, who was soliciting Freud to oppose British policy in curbing Jewish immigration into Palestine: “Whoever wants to influence the masses must give them something rousing and inflammatory and my sober judgment of Zionism does not permit this. I certainly sympathize with its goals. . . But on the other hand, I do not think that Palestine could ever become a Jewish state, nor that the Christian and Islamic worlds would ever be prepared to have their holy places under Jewish care. It would have seemed more sensible to me to establish a Jewish homeland on a less historically burdened land. "

― Andrea Dworkin , Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation

4 " I will say here what I have never said before: my pacifism was not challenged by the beating and torture I experienced in marriage some thirty years ago; I finally got away not because I knew that he would kill me but because I thought I would kill him. "

― Andrea Dworkin , Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation

5 " Klansmen were notorious for ‘beating hell out of their wives,” writes reporter Jack Nelson in Terror in the Night: The Klaris Campaign Against the Jews, “and their wives would complain to the FBI and request that their husbands be arrested. Instead the agents would inform the Klansmen of their wives’ complaints, generating pressure within the families that the FBI could exploit. "

― Andrea Dworkin , Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation

6 " Feminists try hard to fight for women at the same time maintaining special loyalties to subgroups of men. How could we not? "

― Andrea Dworkin , Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation