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Anja Meulenbelt
Dutch writer and politician (born 1945)
Anja Henriëtte Meulenbelt (born 6 January 1945) is a Dutch writer and former politician of the Socialist Party (SP).
She wrote De Schaamte Voorbij ('The Shame is Over'), published in 1976, which was a piece of second-wave feminist writing in the Netherlands. The novel was confessional in tone, and made the connection between the body and language politics overt.[2] She also wrote several books about the Palestinians and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
She was a Senator from 2003 to 2011.[1] In August 2014, Meulenbelt terminated her membership of the SP, because she felt the party did not speak out enough against Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip.[3][4]