Opinion: Israeli women count, too - Jennifer Rubin

[question everything]

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The atrocious acts of sexual violence against Israeli women on Oct. 7 has gotten shockingly little coverage. On one hand, the deaths and kidnappings have understandably transfixed and enraged the public. But one would think there would be sufficient time and attention devoted to one of the most ghastly episodes of rape and brutalization against dozens upon dozens of women.

To his credit, Jake Tapper at CNN provided one of the few TV news reports. “Israeli police are using forensic evidence, video and witness testimony and interrogations of suspects to document cases of rape amid the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel,” an accompanying report from CNN.com explained. “Women and girls caught in the rampage were brutalized sexually, as well as physically tortured and killed, witnesses to the aftermath say.” The report went on to detail “horrific, almost inhuman, crimes” that first responders found “unimaginable.”

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The willful disregard of sexual violence against Israeli women and girls goes beyond mere ignorance to actual denial. Samantha Pearson, the head of the rape center at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, signed a letter denying the rapes occurred. Thankfully, the university fired her and issued a blistering denunciation of the letter. The attacks were so gruesome and barbaric that the impulse to look away can be overwhelming. And yet when other mass atrocities against women occur, there is no shortage of outrage and condemnation. One is left wondering why Israeli women and girls count for so little in the eyes of so many.

Many Jews, especially Jewish women, feel betrayed by their allies with whom they have protested, lobbied, marched and advocated in support of human rights regardless of the race, ethnicity, religion or nationality of the victims. Sadly, the morally indefensible effort to deflect blame from Hamas has now entered an even more egregious period of moral blindness, cruelty and, yes, antisemitism.

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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. +1000

[madaboutharry]

2. Thank you for posting.

I would like to provide this link so people will consider signing the petition.

https://www.metoo-unlessurajew.com/

It’s disappointing that so many have chosen not to be supportive of the October 7th victims of sexual violence.

[question everything]

4. I read someplace that this group is going to protest in front of the UN this Monday, but cannot find any reference

[madaboutharry]

5. If so, I hope they have a big crowd.

[Deuxcents]

6. The UN has declared rape as a weapon of war crime

Sexual violence: a tool of war. I hope more than a million people can be at the protest and/or sign the petition to hold those accountable for this physical and emotional crime. Thanks for posting Jennifer Rubin’s post..I don’t see enough of her on the cable channels but I admire her work.

[yardwork]

13. Rubin is interesting. She was a right wing Republican.

Her columns used to make me mad, because she's a good writer and quick witted but I disagreed with her most of the time. Then along came Trump. Not only is she a never-Trumper, she seems to have given up on the Republican Party.

[yardwork]

3. I don't think many people realize how horrific the Hamas attacks were.

[JI7]

9. Yes, but there are also some that either don't care or see it as deserved

and the liars that just deny it .

[yardwork]

11. I'm sure there are mean people like that, but I think most people just don't know.

Hamas launched a public relations campaign when they attacked Israel, and a lot of people believe a very skewed version of reality. I think that many of those people would feel very differently if they knew more facts. Instead, they're operating on emotion, as the propaganda intended.

[MyMission]

7. Here's a petition being circulated

Since I signed it they've added 100,000 names.
Please consider adding your name, if you are so inclined.

https://www.metoo-unlessurajew.com/

[JI7]

8. Anti Semites like Linda Sarsour want to kick out Jewish women from liberal women's groups

[DFW]

10. The savagery cannot be forgiven and must not be forgotten

Every single atrocity committed on individual women was deliberate and personal. There is no „but whatabout“ that can justify ignoring it.

[yardwork]

12. That's exactly what is being forgotten - or never understood in the first place.

It shouldn't have to be said on DU (or among any decent people) that all lives are precious, war is horrible, it's wrong that innocent people suffer, etc.

However, in this case there is a marked difference in the types of attacks. You're absolutely right - the Hamas attacks were deliberate and personal. Men acting as terrorists made a sneak attack on families. Thousands of women, men and children were raped and mutilated, often in front of their families. Grievously wounded people were taken as hostage.

The world would have been outraged had it not been for a simultaneous propaganda campaign that cast Israelis as literal demons and misrepresented the history of Gaza to make it sound like a concentration camp, which it is not.

And why now? Suspicious timing, as the American election heats up.

[DFW]

14. The timing was hardly random. Anything that well coordinated never is.

The timing was most definitely not indicative of a simmering cauldron that finally just happened to boil over at that moment, that‘s for sure. But I don‘t think that Hamas made any great effort to convince anyone that the opposite was the case.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. K&R