Who‘s coming to FiLIA?

Oh dear, this isn't looking good. Omnicause flags and hijabs. The tinfoil part of my mind wonders if there's been entryism from unrelated activists to undermine the biggest women's rights conference. Or perhaps activist mindset is very strong here, so it's natural that someone has decided this is the most important/trendy issue to crow about.

Deplatforming Virago women’s arts centre because they wouldn’t retract a piece that depicted Posie Parker was the final straw for me. Terrible. Waving flags and chanting from the river to the sea outside the event, a woman reporting being spat on by a flag waver. Then the shameful embarrassing nonsense from last night, with an actual speaker at the conference throwing a drink over someone and having to be led out by security. Note she hasn’t been banned but Aja, who tweeted about it has. Disgraceful. There have been some amazing strong speeches and it’s all being tarnished.

This is getting ridiculous now, if you still support this racist, homophobic and antisemitic organisation after everything that has happened this weekend then shame on you.

Aja now reportedly not allowed in

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I live in East Sussex, and realise my decision not to attend was the correct one.

Who needs transactivists to disrupt events when the call's coming from inside the house? Shameful.

FFS what a shitshow.

But @FannyCann there are still the stalls to sign a petition for women judges in Afghanistan and send a postcard to the Moroccan lesbian imprisoned for wearing a T-shirt that religious authorities deemed blasphemous. And so on.

Yes, parts of the Left are anti-Semitic pro-Palestine agitators, but the exhibitors, speakers, and audiences are not just acquiescent sheep.

It’s a broad grass roots movement, as is Let Women Speak - which has equally antithetical views for some people.

Let’s not let these conflicts derail the broader momentum of the women’s movement or cloud all that we’ve all achieved.

I'm a Jew. My problem is that 'feminists' are looking to a man to sort an issue between women and a zionist zealot to comment on an issue about Israel and Palestine.

I think you’ve made the central point here. I wasn’t at the party but knowing a little about the people involved, there’s a fairly long-standing personal conflict between them. Drink etc may have played a part.

But there are many many sessions, stalls, and interest groups, and most of them not involved in this particular debate.

Jean Hatchet just tweeted her side of the story:

I’m eagerly anticipating the @FiLiA_charity spin on that debacle yesterday and last night. Going to be interesting being the “lying” bad woman again. It’d a popular smear by a bunch of bullies. I look forward to Jane Clare Jones releasing the footage she took of the women parading pro Palestinian flags on stage and me trying to stop them. I was NOT the only one filming. So that is bullshit. Was I angry? Oh yes. Security left a young lone security officer to tackle about 20 women which was getting progressively out of hand with their anti-Semitic display of flags and keffiyehs. Jewish women left in disgust. I am not ashamed I got on the stage to get them down and to help the officer take them down. When I saw she was out of her depth with no support I got calm, asked her what I could do to help. Then I stood in front of the women to block the display. One of them pushed me - almost off the stage. I grabbed her flag. I have no shame about my actions. The reason I have footage of JCJ is because she was filming me at the side of the stage. When I noticed I got out my own phone to film her in return as a defence. She grabbed my phone from my hand. I took it back. Forcefully. She was then helped by security who held me back. I’m sure she will be on her stall today. Nicely protected. Like the coward she is. Lucy Masoud arrived later when I was trying to get calm- I looked at her and she threw a pint over me. She then raised her fist at me and was restrained by a man. Security took her out. Then we were thrown out and banned from today. That’s what happened Filia. Proceed with your spin.

https://x.com/JeanHatchet/status/1977278880315580506

I attended my first Filia in Cardiff (three years ago) I was so impressed with the speaker at that opening session who led the chant of “Women,Freedom,Life” at the end. There were also impassioned pleas to reject the Hijab (different speakers and sessions as far as I remember). Women have died and are still taking huge risks to abandon the hijab.

Now we have Free Palestine and a stall selling hijabs.
I’m so glad I’m not there - I couldn’t face coming to Brighton and also heard of certain women who had been banned from speaking.

I’d be interested to know how many hijabs the stall sells. My guess is it will be very few and the seller is there more to make a statement than a profit.

Sounds like both, doesn’t it. I’m delighted that Josh is giving this debacle airtime.

Josh has platformed many feminists on GB News and is a fierce advocate against the gender madness.

Is your problem with him because he is a man or is it because he is a jew?

Thanks, I see who you’re referring to now.

Sorry, that should have included this quote

Which man?

Glad to hear a man is coming to sort it out for women. Even better that he's a man with absolutely no bias on the issue of zionism.

I would agree. Except for the people who seem to be involved. That is what concerns me. The people involved include invited panelists and are well known to the Filia organisers.

That is why I would be interested in hearing something directly from the organisers on this.

FiLiA have sided with antisemites.

I suppose it was almost inevitable at a conference that brings together people with strong opinions and an activist mentality from across the political spectrum at a time like this. Should the organisers have anticipated it? Perhaps. But it’s hard to see what steps could have been taken effectively to mitigate it without further inflaming the situation.

I wonder whether a statement will be released about the incidents at the disco. I would like to hear about what they do and don’t support. There seems to be mixed messages everywhere. If the Filia team allowed that flag to be waved around, why?

The Jane Clare Jones and Lucy Masouds of the world don’t just turn away from the suffering of Jewish women on October 7 2023, they smirk at it.

Here are photos of Arbel Yehoud being released in January. She was held in solitary for 500 days. Look at her terrified face as the Hamas men mob her. Look up the videos of her release on YouTube and see the raw terror on her face. How can you look away from women being they are Jewish?

Filia needs to get a hold of this and release a statement condemning antisemitism. But they won’t- they are lib fems in disguise.

Christ, the TRAs didn’t even need to bother!

This is disgusting.

After the antisemitic chanting initiated by speakers in many talks during the day this is what followed last night, Dr Jane Clare Jones attacked Jean Hatchet.