In Saudi Arabia, women have to get approval from a male guardian to get a job or leave the country. In Israel, women can run the country. In Saudi Arabia, women have to wear a burka (called an ‘abaya’) while in Israel, they can wear what they want.
But CNN decided to run a story claiming that it’s better to be a woman in Saudi Arabia than in Israel. While that contention would explain CNN, the media and the entire liberal establishment’s backing for mass Muslim migration, the ‘news network’ decided to run a story claiming that under Netanyahu, women have lost all their rights.
What is CNN’s evidence for these claims?
“In Israel, these steps are combined with what Hacker calls “the most extreme versions of Judaism – both ultra-Orthodox and nationalist – and it has profound consequences for women.” Most alarming is the surge in violence and femicide. So far this year, 44 women have been murdered in Israel, the highest annual tally in a decade and well above the 35 who were murdered in 2024.”
The actual numbers are 20 Jewish women were killed and 14 Arab women and it’s unclear who the other women are. There’s no evidence the perpetrators were religious or nationalist or any of that nonsense. And while every death is a tragedy, Israel is a country of under 10 million people of whom around 7 million are Jewish.
By comparison, NYC had 377 murders. Israel had around 300.
Thus far, 242 homicides have been recorded in the Arab community since January. Of the 300 people killed this year, 53 were Jewish and five were foreign nationals.
Obviously this proves that Israel is Islamophobic. No seriously, that’s the spin.
Until 2015, the ratio of homicide rates between Arabs and Jews in Israel stood at 4:1. However, since 2016, both the number and rate of homicides in Israel’s Arab population have been on a continuous and unprecedented rise, while the rate among Jews has been relatively flat. Together, these two trends pushed the Arab:Jewish ratio of homicides to 14:1 in 2024.
The data indicate that Arabs in Israel are exposed to a much greater risk of homicide than Jews.
The homicide rate for Jews and other non-Muslims in Israel is at 0.85 murders per 100,000 people. By comparison the homicide rate in a fairly safe place like Boise, Idaho is around 2 to 100,000. Suffice it to say your risk of being violently murdered in Israel by non-Muslims is rather low.
20 women being murdered would be a slow month in Chicago. So what else does CNN have as evidence?
“Women’s advocates also link the recent surge in femicide to the surge in gun ownership – up 40% since the far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir eased licensing after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks.”
Hundreds of women were murdered by Muslim terrorists on Oct 7 because they didn’t have guns.
But wait… CNN has one more piece of evidence.
The decline in women’s rights is measurable. Israel’s global standing on gender equality has plunged in recent years. In the 2025–26 Women, Peace and Security Index, produced by Georgetown University, Israel ranks 84 of 181 countries – behind Albania, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Before the current government came into power three years ago, it ranked 27.
Georgetown University? The one with a Center funded by Saudi Arabia?
When Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal gave $20 million to create Georgetown’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding—a gift never listed in the Department of Education’s database—Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) asked if the center had ever criticized Saudi Arabia’s human-rights abuses or examined its ties to extremism. He never received an answer. There’s been no accountability since.
But if you believe Georgetown, Israel is worse for women than Saudi Arabia. Why? Een though its own ratings show that Israel is ahead in its metrics for women’s employment, financial inclusion, mean years of schooling, share of parliamentary seats, legal discrimination against women, access to justice, maternal mortality and domestic violence.
Saudi Arabia only beats Israel in three areas, cell phone use, women’s perception of safety, and proximity to conflict.
In other words, the only reason Israel is behind Saudi Arabia is because Muslim terrorists, backed by the Saudis and other Muslim terrorist backers, invaded it and murdered women.
Now Georgetown, which is Saudi funded, claims that Saudi Arabia is a safer place for women than Israel.
And CNN reports that and blames “the most extreme versions of Judaism.”
The only people more dishonest than the media are the experts it quotes. As bad as you think the media and our expert class are, they’re worse. Completely untrustworthy, violently biased and prone to telling any lie they can get away with because there is zero accountability.
KK says
Absurd! Sue them for libel!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Calling CNN fake news at this point is flattery. The level of their ignorance is staggering!
OLD GUY says
CNN is not ignorant this is intensionally misleading the public. Fake News.
Wellington says
The MSM in America has become a cruel joke and thus Trump calling the MSM fake news is quite apt. Only fools and Leftists (excuse the redundancy) any longer think the MSM has any integrity.
Hoi Polloi says
Leave it to CNN to prove yet again that we don’t hate the msm nearly enough.
Dave says
CNN has proved, yet again, that their ignorance and bias has become almost legendary.
somehistory says
If Israel deported every muzzie from their Land, the murder rate would drop even further.
If a household has no snakes, no one will be bitten in that house by a snake.
Just another lie by the goons at cnn about how terrible things are in Israel.. More Jew bashing.
Doesn’t that network have someone named “bash”?
Taffy says
Is the problem what the journalism schools are producing, or is the media hiring “journalists” that never went to school and are winging it, by providing fake news under the banner of a news organization?
Dave says
CNN has ‘claimed’ a lot of things over the years.
Most of what they have ‘claimed’ has been debunked as Leftist propaganda.
This claim of theirs, though, takes the cake.
‘What’ are these people smoking or ingesting?
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“What is CNN’s evidence for these claims?”
Get with it, man!
CNN don’t need no stinkin’ “evidence”!
gravenimage says
So it seems, increasingly these days.
gravenimage says
CNN Claims Being a Woman in Israel is Worse Than in Saudi Arabia
…………………………………….
Utter calumny–Israel is one of the countries with most equal rights, and obviously *far* than any Muslim country. This from Saudi Arabia is especially grotesque.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, if one wanted to demonstrate that any Arab country was better for women than Israel, one might have picked one of those Cold War era socialist regimes, like Gadaffi’s. But picking Saudi Arabia, of all countries, is just retarded
gravenimage says
Agreed, Infidel–but even then it would be incorrect.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Oh, absolutely, Graven. But it would at least be relatively closer, as Libyan women weren’t under the burqha, but were put in jobs like security
MJ Raichyk, PhD says
I’m betting that the WOKE WEST are insanely jealous at the FAILURE of WESTERN WOMEN in POPULATION REPLACEMENT…
West is 1.6 per female……… swirling down the drain, in spite of [b/c of] their choice of feminazi daycare [rejected by Israeli child psychiatrists in the 80s-90s already] …….
whereas
ISRAEL WOMEN –with BOTH enviable EQUALITY and enviable FAMILY SUCCESS have a birth replacement rate of [drum roll] 2.9 Wow…
AND
as I recall ISRAELI MARRIAGES LAST BETTER…. not 50% divorce probability like the woke west, iirc………
HENCE
the patently desperately stupid ATTACK on the status of Israeli women…
TTYL
Albert says
That’s mostly those extremist sects in Israel that boost that birth rate number up so high. They are even higher than the Palestinian rabble.
Basically, numbers show when western women marry Muslims in western lands, their birth rate rises to high numbers as well. Even if she is a second or third wife. Western welfare can take care of their children there is trouble. So this is more on the men of the west than the women I believe, because thy get it done with Muslim husbands.
Albert says
Remember Israel has a great society compared to the USA. Better healthcare, better safety net, much more cohesive, you even incorporated the Arabs, or so called Palestinians properly…
A much better place to raise a family. And the land is absolutely stunning, no doubt the most beautiful country for my tastes. You also have had an excellent leader, criminally underrated, Netanyahu, who built this society, transformed it from what it was before, a poorer socialist nation.
dumbledoresarmy says
I suspect that if the femicide/ DV stats in Israel were looked at separately for the different groups – the Muslim Arabs or other Muslims, vs. the Jews (whether secular or observant) and the Christians whether Arab or non-Arab – one would see immediately that there was a lot more DV (including ‘honour’ murders, which are primarily a mohammedan-type crime), not to mention general criminality, gang warfare, etc, among the Muslims than among the non-Muslims whether Jews or Christians (or anything else). So the presence of a largeish Muslim ‘community’ within Israel is making the crime statistics for Israel worse than they would be otherwise…
If all the Muslims left Israel, I BET that the prevalence of all manner of crimes – murder, fraud, theft, gang violence, etc – would drop right through the floor… There would still be bad human behaviour, indeed really bad behaviour, but there’d be less of it!
gravenimage says
+1
Huh?!? says
I recall, some years, back when a former CNN “journalist” who won an award during her time at CNN, stated she made things up all the time.
ExMuzzie says
As an arab ex muslim from a sunni background i abhorre the so called saudi arabia. It was the country that fueled the civil war in iraq and was keen to prevent it from being a functioning democratic state and now you see in syria how they are promoting a jihadist and succeeded in buying the western silence by their filthy money and now syria is nothing but a sunni discriminating cesspool. I feel very pitty for any western who think they’re allies or trustworthy, believe me arabs loath them for what they have and continue to do.
Just few days ago they sent tons of books of ibn taymiyah who’s a very known radical scholar in islamic culture. They are promoting the ongoing genocide of druze and alawaites and continue their dirty and filthy plays in yemen.
Or i have to bring on the never ending condemnation of state of israel since october the 7th? or more so -the never looked on by western media- their filthy rhetoric, blood libel and incitement against the jews yes the jews not the Zionists during their weekly Friday prayer!
They might have changed the optics but they can fool anyone but not an arab who’s an ex muslim. They can get ronaldo, J Lo or mr beast but that doesn’t mean they’re changed, not even in the slightest. Its just another iran but with optics and in fact at least iran is HONEST and doesn’t play around. They’re clear as the day with their aims and goals unlike the snake called saudi filthy arabia.
Sorry for it to be take so long but i hope you get my point
Hoi Polloi says
I agree and doubt many Americans outside DC see Saudis as anything but purchasers of US pols’ kind words. Commendations on becoming an ex.
gravenimage says
ExMuzzie. welcome to Jihad Watch!