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Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai have made their Broadway production debut this month with the musical Suffs. However, news of the show was not music to everyone's ears.

Critics took to social media to accuse the pair of double standards and silence over the plight of Palestinian women in Gaza amid ongoing Israeli bombardment, while producing and promoting a musical about the early 20th-century suffragette movement in the US.

Malala co-producing a musical about the American women's suffrage movement while being silent about the horrific atrocities being committed against women and girls in Gaza & actively collaborating with a vocal champion of Israel, posted one user on X, formerly Twitter. Irony has never been more stark.

Clinton, who ran for president in 2016, has promoted herself as an advocate for feminism and womens rights.

This has prompted many online users to highlight what they say is the"glaring hypocrisy"of Clintons backing of Israel despite several reports on Israels human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls, including sexual abuse.

Yousafzai, on the other hand, became a household name in the fight for girls educationafter she was shot in 2012 for speaking out against the Pakistani Talibans restrictions on girls access to education. At 17, she became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate in 2014 for her activism.

Social media users expressed their disappointment with her collaboration with Clinton amid Israels targeted strikes oneducational institutions in Gaza and the violence that has forced schools in the occupied West Bank to close and turn to remote learning.

Malala herself has been relatively muted on the devastation of the education system in Gaza. Whatever little shes said, has been muted platitudes, said one user.

Social media users have also criticised Yousafzai for partnering with warmonger Clinton, who as secretary of state under President Obama oversaw deadly drone strikes that killed hundreds of civilians, including children, in the activists native Pakistan.

Malala said drone attacks are fueling terrorism and killing innocents. She's now partnering with Hillary Clinton, who oversaw the drone campaign, said one user. She exposed her double standards with Palestine and can safely be called a pawn for the imperial powers.

Suffs has made its Broadway debut amid tension and fierce criticism of the country's unwavering support and arming of Israels war in Gaza as the US gears up for presidential elections later this year.

Israel's assault has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, 70 percentof whom arewomen and children.

In February, UN experts said they had received reports of Palestinian female detainees being subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault in Israeli detention since 7 October.

The experts added that hundreds of Palestinian women and girls have been arbitrarily detained since the war started.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced former President Donald Trump over what she sees as a likely Supreme Court decision on abortion.

Clinton was referring to oral arguments in the Supreme Court over whetherIdahos near-total prohibition ofabortionsconflicts with federal emergency medicine statutes. The former unsuccessful presidential candidate laid the blame for the possible decision against a rescinding of the law at Trumps feet.

Breaking: The MAGA Supreme Court majority appears ready to rule that the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness doesnt extend to women with pregnancy complications or who otherwise need abortions, she said Wednesday afternoon. This is horrifying, and it is because of Donald Trump.

We wont allow our daughters and granddaughters to grow up with fewer rights than we had, she added in another post.

Clinton has recently ramped up her criticisms of the Republican who defeated her in the 2016 election. In an appearance on the Defending Democracy podcast, she claimed that Trump was trying to kill and imprison journalists and his opposition.

Trump was like, you know, just gaga over Putin because Putin does what Trump would like to do kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists and others into exile, rule without any check or balance, Clinton said.Thats what Trump really wants.

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After her 2016 loss, the former first lady has continued to speak on behalf of Democrats and stay in the public spotlight, including by hosting a podcast with her daughter, Chelsea.

The Idaho abortion law that earned Clintons attention only allows exceptions for the life of the mother. The Biden administration sued the state under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, arguing that abortion is included under lifesaving medical care. The Supreme Court appeared divided, or even skeptical, of the argument.

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This is thrilling, Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, said on a chilly Thursday night outside the Music Box Theater on 45th Street, as women in strapless gowns walked a purple carpet.

Ms. Clinton, a noted Broadway superfan, was making her Broadway producing debut with Suffs, a new musical about womens suffrage that traces the campaign for the right to vote from 1913 through the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which was celebrating its opening night.

The show not only arrives in a presidential election year, as states attempt to tighten voting laws, but also as Broadway is bringing more female-centric stories to the stage. Audience interest in such stories has also been strong in the previous week, Suffs ranked in the top 10 of the 36 shows on Broadway in the percentage of its seats filled.

Im so excited that audiences are embracing this story, Ms. Clinton said. Its historic and relevant, and its emotional, and it shows the relationships among these women who fought so hard to get us the right to vote.

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During an appearance Monday on The Kelly Clarkson Show, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Arizonas recent decision to revert to an 1864 law banning all forms of abortion is horrifying.

I feared it would happen, but I hoped it wouldnt happen, Clinton said of the statute, which allows no exceptions for a pregnant patients health.

Now, here we are in the middle of this very difficult period for women... who cannot get the care that they need, she went on, pointing to the 21 states that have outlawed abortion after 18 weeks, or have banned it outright, since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Clintons concerns didnt stop there.

Theres another element to it, which I find so troubling, she told Clarkson, saying that the laws lack of exceptions for rape or incest reflects a kind of cruelty.

Clarkson held back tears as she told Clinton how insane the legislation sounds to her.

The pop star turned the topic to voting, asking Clinton how to engage citizens who feel exhausted and powerless by the state of politics.

I want to vote in a way thats going to make life better for the maximum number of people, said the former first lady and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. Whatever you care about, voting is your superpower.

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Huma Abedin was born by an Urdu speaking Indian mother and a Pakistani father on July 26, 1975 in Kalamazoo, a suburban town in Michigan State in the United States. In 1977, the government of Saudi Arabia made her professor parents Saleh and Zain, a generous offer. They were ordained with faculty positions at King Abdulaziz University in the sprawling urban landscape of Jeddah, and they moved with their four children to Saudi Arabia.

In August 1993, Huma began her journalism studies while simultaneously studying for a minor in political science at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington DC. GWU was located within the vicinity of the State Department, and had a close proximity to the White House, the US Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Washington Monument.

While studying, she became an intern, through the White House internship program, to then First Lady Hillary Clinton's office in September 1996. This marked the beginning of an inseparable friendship with her boss.

In Huma's memoir Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, she narrates how she spent her entire career in public service and national politics in DC's oppressive heat and humidity. After four years in the White House, she worked as senior advisor to Hillary, who by then represented New York State in the US Senate. She was later appointed chief of staff for Hillarys 2008 presidential campaign.

She was promoted to deputy chief of staff at the US Department of State in 2009, and continued to serve under Hillary with distinction. This subsequently led to her appointment as vice -hair of Hillary's 2016 presidential campaign, when Hillary became the first woman elected nominee of a major political party.

They grew so close when Hillary was the Secretary of State in Barack Obamas administration, she began calling Huma her second daughter.

After Huma turned 34, she requested Hillarys husband, former president Bill Clinton to officiate her wedding to Congressman Anthony Weiner on July 10, 2010 in Long Island, New York. Weiner was one of the most compelling politicians of his generation. He was a brash Jew who could instantly read a room and intuitively work the crowd at any parade with formidable showmanship. He was passionate, whip smart, brazenly articulate, self-assured and never at a loss for descriptive words. He possessed all political gifts except self-control.

Weiner was hired by then New York House representative Chuck Schumers office fresh from graduation in 1985. After six years with Schumer, he ran for the New York City Council in 1991, winning one of the 51 seats. At 27, he became the youngest city council member in history. When Chuck Schumer decided to contest for the New York Senate office, Weiner aimed for Schumers congressional spot, New Yorks Ninth Congressional District. He won, replacing his competent incumbent in 1998, in the House of Representatives.

At formal dinners with chairmen of Fortune 500 companies, Weiner would broach the issue of pay discrepancy between the executives he was seated next to, and their employees. He believed powerful people deserved to feel uncomfortable about the retrogressive decisions they made. Huma fell in love with this trait that called it as he saw it.

When Huma was pregnant with her first child, Jordan, in 2011, an indecent photo her husband shared to a 15-year-old girl on Twitter, of himself in his bulging underpants went viral and he suddenly became a social pariah. The story of the lewd picture was published on every major broadsheet and tabloid in the US, leading to Weiner's resignation from congress. Huma felt betrayed; her husband had lied to her on phone, while she was on a state visit to Islamabad with Hillary, that his Twitter account had been hacked and the picture wasn't his.

She and Weiner went through months of therapy to restore their relationship. On May 18, 2022, two years after resigning, Weiner announced his candidacy for New York City mayor and Huma joined his campaign team, effectively calling potential donors to raise funds.

In the midst of the campaign, Dirty.com released evidence of recent explicit phone chats Carlos Danger, the pseudonym Weiner used when sexting a Las Vegas blackjack dealer called Sydney Leathers. In a TV interview, Sydney said Weiner called her more than five times daily, to demand phone sex. The widespread public belief was crystalline, that Weiner possessed a relentless psychiatric addiction of sexting and having phone sex with strangers.

His popularity skydived in the polls and he was defeated in the Democratic Party mayoral nomination, finishing fifth in the race that was eventually won by Bill De Blasio. In 2016, New York Post published a picture of an aroused Weiner that he had sent to a woman, of himself lying on his marital bed next to his infant son Jordan. He was diagnosed with sex addiction, leading Huma to file for divorce, before Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in prison for transferring obscene material to a teenager. He confessed to Huma that he wasn't just sexting women, but was previously having sex with them in their martial bed.

Jeff Anthony is a novelist, a Big Brother Africa 2 Kenyan representative and founder of Jeff's Fitness Centre @jeffbigbrother

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