ABSTRACT
This study is conducted to explore the Israel-Palestine conflict from a postcolonial feminism perspective by enlightening the political participation of Israeli women in the peacemaking process between Israel and Palestine. Feminism generally assumes that women are inherently more peaceful than men and gender equality will naturally support policy that leads to peace. Nevertheless, Israel, which scores 70% in the Global Gender Gap Index and which has become the country with the highest level of gender equality in the Middle East region in 2015, still faces military confrontation with Palestine until recent day. The contradiction between feminist assumptions and facts which occurred in Israel will be analysed using the qualitative method and descriptive analysis approach of Miles and Huberman. The result of this study shows that there are two challenges for the Israeli feminist movement. The first is the challenge that comes from patriarchy domination in social life and the second is the challenge from colonialism values that affect Israeli feminism.
