| | | Israel’s Far-Left Haaretz Asks: ‘Why Is the Cruel Sexual Violence of the October 7 Hamas Attack Being Ignored?’
NOV 17, 2023 12:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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The answer lies with the Left’s alliance with Islam. Leftists don’t want to hear about atrocities that are rooted in Islam. That would be “Islamophobic.” And that’s women’s rights organizations are turning a blind eye as well. For jihadis, rape is a means to express conquest and domination, and to inflict humiliation upon the conquered people. But such assumptions are rooted in Islam, so the Left will never discuss them.
“Why Is the Cruel Sexual Violence of the October 7 Hamas Attack Being Ignored?,” Haaretz, November 14, 2023:
“I knew right away that sexual violence was part of the events of October 7, but obviously, I could not have known the extent of the cruelty that Hamas engaged in,” says Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, who served for 12 years on the UN Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
Halperin-Kaddari now feels “completely betrayed” by the international women’s rights organizations with whom she has worked for years, for their failure to condemn – or even recognize – the rape, kidnapping and other atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli citizens on October 7.
In conversation with Haaretz Weekly host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Halperin-Kaddari, a member of the newly formed Civil Commission on Hamas’ October 7 Crimes Against Women and director of the Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women at Bar-Ilan University, explains that “unlike any previous incidents of ‘conflict-related sexual violence,’ as the UN calls it, the Hamas terrorists had body cameras and they filmed their actions. They broadcast it both to the families of the victims and on social media, so the horrific footage emerged right away.”
The UN-affiliated groups Halperin-Kaddari has worked with were founded with the mission of “protecting women from violence, to champion women’s rights, and to acknowledge when harm is done to women. And now, when we Israeli women are faced with the most horrible occurrence of ‘conflict-related sexual violence,’ there is complete silence…. |
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