The hypocrisy of Almas Jiwani continues.
Please read my previous article about the participation of
this saintly feminist at the Crans Montana Forum in the illegally occupied City
of Dakhla against the wishes of the proud Sahrawi women of Western Sahara. I do
admit that I had a hard time even confirming that she did participate. UN Women
– Canada did issue a press release saying that she was going to speak at the
event on March 13, and I emailed her several times to get her confirmation of attendance and
to get a copy of her speech. When she never got back to me about this, I
checked the “News & Events” section on the UN Women –Canada website, but
there was no mention there either about any participation in Dakhla. Finally, however,
after the event I got my confirmation when the Crans Montana Forum published a
picture of her speaking at a podium clearly marked “Crans Montana Forum, Dakhla
Morocco [sic] 2015, 12-14 March.”
Before I published my article about her hypocrisy, I did extend
the courtesy of emailing her a draft of the article for any comments and told
her I would give her a week to respond before publishing. When the week went by
without any response, I was in a particularly generous mood so sent her a
second email, this one telling her that I would not publish my article if she
officially apologized to the Sahrawi women for her insulting appearance in
Dakhla and if she contacted Fatma Mehdi, head of the National Union of Saharawi
Women (UNMS), about appearing at their upcoming Congress in the refugee camps.
I remind you that Ms. Mehdi had directed a letter to Almas Jiwani asking her to
abstain from attending the Forum. Needless to say, I got no response from Jiwani,
so went out with my article.
Which all gets me to “the Disappearing Act of Almas Jiwani.”
I noticed this morning that her picture on the Crans Montana Forum website was
deleted. Since that picture was the only evidence I had that
proved that she attended, I had made a copy of the
picture. I do find it reprehensible that she should choose to engineer, in cahoots with Jean-Paul Carteron, her disappearing act from the Crans Montana
Forum in Dakhla rather than try to mend fences with the proud Sahrawi women of
Western Sahara. So here is her mug shot (and no country recognizes Dakhla as part of Morocco); shame on her:
