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….
Kesselman says
The more or less total collapse of a moral compass makes the voices of various UN factions utterly neglectable. The same is true for most NGOs, individuals as well for organizations as a whole.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Haaretz, despite being a member of the club, apparently missed out the Leftist memo on the Intersectionality pecking order
1. Islam
2. Minor-Attracted people
3. Trans-sexuality
4. Queer/Intersex
5. LGB
6. Asexual
7. Straight Leftists
8. Centrists
9. Conservatives
bagsgroove says
There is no sign of any arabs in the list of humanity.
Westman says
When did Haaretz begin giving a damn about the security of Israel? It has been a newspaper of record for hosting anti-zionist screeds. Has it finally awakened to reality?
The US women’s movement morphed into an anti-male movement before became necrotic. One remembers an article by a ranking member where she described her young son, and every man, as a, “potential rapist”. Her goal, it seemed, was to help him become sufficiently self-hating so that it could never happen.
The Women’s movement has always been a group activity that offers protection in numbers during the overstated accusations by demonstrators because it knew, in reality, the average US male was gentle and non-threatening to women.
Demonstrating for the women of Iran, or, the raped and brutalized women of Israel is different because afterwards there is no expectation of safety for the individual.
Women have their own channels of communication and are aware that Islam has a lesser view of women and permits the violence of husbands against wives. The Women’s movement knows if wives can be beaten, none of them are individually safe after any perceived criticism of Islam.
What to expect from the Women’s movements about any atrocity toward women from Muslims – crickets.
It’s good that Haaretz has awakened. Push those eyelids higher.
Kesselman says
What goes for women’s clubs goes for the average citizen in the West. They are scared of the sheer brutality displayed by fascism. It was so in the 1930s and 1940s Europe and it’s no different today.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I guess that unlike Washington Post, which has Jeff Bezos to bankroll them, Haaretz has noone else to fall back upon. As a result, they can’t risk alienating the entire Israeli populace
Walter Sieruk says
That demonic and murderous jihad entity, Hamas, has no limits, at all, to its horrendously horrific evils that it so maliciously commits.
Walter Sieruk says
Some naïve Westerners who don’t know and understand about the bloody and deadly essence of Islam’s jihad , might be shocked and stop and wonder “Just how can those jihadists of Hamas be so totally unconscionably evil in their horrendously vile heinous horrific actions ? “
The answer to that question is found in the Bible, which informs its reader that there are some men who are completely callous heartless and unfeeling because they have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [N.K.J.V.]
In this situation, that “hot iron” is Islam.
Lisel Sipes says
And here I just thought they were fcking pigs with no brains.
abu taleb says
Isn’t always like that, when muslims do horrible crimes, people are always silnce except the so called Islamophobes. But when muslims are having some problems, even a small thing like somebody is renovating a church, then muslims are allowed to attack, rape, butcher, kidnap etc. without much critics from others.