Imperialist feminism dismisses feminist critics of colonialism as blinded by Jew hatred.

Evidence

Excoriating feminists who criticize Israel as an apartheid state, Chesler laments that they are seldom so harsh on Muslim countries for their great crimes against women. Ignoring considerable feminist protest from both within and outside the Arab world on such issues, Chesler sums up her position in an interview: ‘Many feminists are totally blind to their own Jew hatred and are now more obsessed with the occupation of disputed lands in the Middle East than they are with the occupation of women’s bodies worldwide.’ Feminists even opposed the ‘liberation’ of Afghanistan and Iraq, laments Chesler, so blinded were they by their antipathy to what they imagine to be colonial ventures. For Chesler, passionately endorsing free-market capitalism, America ‘may have risen on the backs of others,’ but capitalism and colonialism are in the end good things, especially for women. Global capitalism ‘exploits and educates, impoverishes and enriches’; colonialism ‘sponsored practices such as education (for girls as well as the children of peasants), hygiene, health care, governmental infrastructures, and technology.’ — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 228

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the rhetorical move of accusing feminists who oppose intervention of being ‘blind to Jew hatred’ — how imperialist feminism weaponizes charges of complicity to foreclose critique.
• XREF: Connects to the language of the civilizing mission in Things Fall Apart and to benevolent-imperialism defenses generally.
• ADDENDUM: Parallel to ‘On Sacrifice’: both show how dominant groups frame their violence on others as protective/liberating for the victims.