This week, the Association of Rape Crisis Centres in Israel published its first report based on survivor testimonies from October 7.
Silent Cry: Sexual Crimes in the October 7 War details the sexual atrocities committed, in the words of witnesses, first responders, coroners and returned hostages.
A copy of the ARCCI report was handed to the UN. As journalist Efrat Forsher writes in Israeli news website Israel Hayom, it details “gang rapes at gunpoint, sometimes in front of family and friends – a practice aimed at sowing fear and deepening oppression and humiliation – castration and mutilation of female and male organs, and ‘insertion of weapons in intimate areas … genital organs’.
“This included ‘nails, grenades, and knives. It represents a specific expression of the pattern of targeted mutilation and harm to sexual organs.’ ”
According to the ARCCI report, “When other women are forced to witness the sexual assault, even if they were not themselves victims, they are influenced and subdued by the perpetrator’s power. Forcing spouses, parents, and siblings to witness the sexual assault of a family member is a practice of torture. In many cases, family members are killed when they try to protect their family from sexual assault.”
Something inside me fractures, reading this. I read this and I see the faces of my friends, my mother and my aunt and niece. I see the faces of my neighbours, women in my neighbourhood who I don’t know but recognise.
To the women who continue to champion the Hamas cause, you are complicit.With every chant of “From the river to the sea” you condemn women and children on the other side of the world to a life you would never want for yourself or your own. There is historic, irrefutable, first-hand evidence of how women are abused under the control of ISIS and Hamas, yet you call for this regime to be legitimised.
As for the men among you? You are weak apologists for a regime that revels in the subjugation of women.You don’t believe Israeli women, Jewish women. Will you believe Muslim women who testify bravely to the same truths, the same endemic behaviours? There is no grey here, only right and wrong.
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Feminism is so pesky, isn’t it? All of a sudden “believe all women” is inconvenient so it’s believe some women; certainly not the women you don’t like, and definitely don’t believe Jewish or Israeli women. While we’re at it, you absolutely can’t afford to believe a Christian or conservative woman. Throw them under a bus as often as you like.
The privileged, bored pseudo-feminists and academics of the West are betrayed by their ignorance. Women were kept as sex slaves by ISIS years ago. The Assad regime in Syria had killed more than 5000 women and children by 2020 and now all of sudden these ladies have discovered war? Cowards who enjoy complete sexual, social, financial, religious and political liberty are not raising voices to demand that women in the disputed territories might be free, they are raised in hatred of Israel. For Jews. For Jewish women.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/pseudofeminists-betrayed-by-their-own-...