Why the Feminist Silence About Mass Rapes of Israeli Women?

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Why the Feminist Silence About Mass Rapes of Israeli Women?

November 2, 2023 – The world witnessed on October 7 one of the most barbaric incidents in memory as Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel and killed over 1,400 persons and raped countless women. One morgue worker recounted, “There is evidence of mass rape so brutal that they broke their victims’ pelvis—women, grandmothers, children.” (1)

Rape always has been one of feminists’ signature issues, and one would have expected to see an outpouring of unmitigated outrage (2).

Six days after the attack, UN Women issued a bland Statement on the Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The document concluded, “UN Women has been supporting Palestinian women since 1997 to achieve their social, economic, and political rights. We remain present on the ground to provide support and assistance and will do so for as long as it takes.” (3)

But nothing about the mass rapes or rights of Israeli women. The UN Women document signaled to the global sisterhood that the gruesome assaults of Israeli women were unworthy of concern:

Women for Women International urged its website visitors to give a “woman survivor of war the resources, support, and skills she needs,” but forgot to mention the female survivors in Israel (4).
Equality Now issued a short Statement Supporting Women and Girls’ Human Rights in the Current Israel-Hamas Crisis (5). But not a word about rape.
The Feminist Majority Foundation headlined the need to “Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan,” but fell silent on the situation in Israel (6).
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) featured a 2021 statement on “Feminist Solidarity with Palestinian Civil Society.” (7) But again, nothing about the mass rapes in Israel.

So what explains the feminist neglect of the wanton rapes of Israeli women?

The answer goes back to Karl Marx. Marxism forms the basis of feminist ideology, as documented by Kate Weigand in her book, Red Feminism. (8) The whole premise of Marxism is that society can be partitioned into “oppressors” and the “oppressed,” with women cast as the unwitting victims of patriarchal oppression.

In 1843, Marx wrote an article “On the Jewish Question” in which he argued that Jews could achieve political freedom only by relinquishing their religious identity (9). Of course, many viewed that one-sided proposal as anti-semitic.

Accordingly, the United Nations has issued countless resolutions condemning Israel for its “occupation” of Palestine, an improbable claim given that Jews have inhabited parts of present-day Israel since 1,200 B.C. (10)

So the Israeli-Hamas conflict is viewed as a fight between the “colonizers” and the “colonized,” with feminist groups around the world siding with the Hamas terrorists.

Persons need to speak out against the feminist hypocrisy. UN ambassadors and lawmakers around the world should demand that UN Women remove its Marxist-inspired Statement on the Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Telephone: +1 646-781-4400, Extension 3. Email: janine.kandel@unwomen.org

The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance – DAVIA — consists of 110 member organizations from 34 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. DAVIA seeks to ensure that domestic violence and abuse polices are science-based, family-affirming, and gender-inclusive. https://endtodv.org/coalitions/davia/

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