There are some things you just can’t un-see. And no, I’m not talking about the Cats movie. Although I wish it were something so silly and inconsequential.
Many years ago, for instance, I saw a video of an actual stoning in some Middle-Eastern shithole. It kept me awake that night and still haunts me.
The same goes for the footage from Israel, this past week.
I first became aware that something horrible was happening hours before it broke on the mainstream media. I noticed that Saturday afternoon that “Israel” and “Hamas” were trending on X. With a sinking feeling, I clicked… and horror opened up in front of me. What I saw in even those earliest videos was the stuff of nightmares.
Perhaps worse than the blood and death – dead people are past suffering, at least – was the sight of Israeli women and children being carried off by howling, cheering mobs of Palestinian savages.
There’s the video of a teenage Israeli woman being pulled by terrorists from the back of a vehicle in Gaza. In the video, she is barefoot, wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt, and as she turns, you can see the back of her sweatpants covered in blood that came from between her legs.
The look on that girl’s face – and she was barely more than a girl – is one of the most haunting things I’ve seen. The pure, dead-eyed hopelessness.
It’s a look that must have been seen all over Israel, since Saturday, on the faces of hundreds, if not thousands, of women.
The report joined widespread ones of sexual assault and rape during Hamas’s medieval, ISIS-style rampage. It joined footage of women abducted with their babies, grandmothers taken hostage and paraded down the streets of Gaza. According to one survivor, “They came to slaughter, to destroy. I know they kidnapped girls. They raped women even after killing them.” Another survivor tells of returning to the site later to look for his friends, and seeing mostly bodies “of young women, lying cold and mutilated.” Another widely-shared video showed a young woman’s nearly naked body, lifeless and mutilated, being paraded through the streets of Gaza in the back of a pickup truck. Palestinian men sat on her, draped their legs over her, pulled at her hair, and spit on her: a broken female body brandished like a trophy.
These videos, broadcast on social media and Telegram for the world to see, were filmed and shared by Hamas with pride. There is no effort to hide or minimize what they are doing to women. In fact, the rape and brutalization of women has been the crucial hallmark of this brutal attack.
It’s chilling and sickening. But nearly as disturbing is the complete silence of the largest and most visible international women’s organizations supposedly dedicated to protecting women all over the world from rape and violence. They have all suddenly gone silent. Not one has spoken out against what appear to be the mass rapes committed by Hamas fighters.
Where, now, are the fatuous bints holding up their idiotic “free Palestine” signs?
What do you have to say, Chloe Swarbrick? Golriz Gharaman? Marama Davidson, are you going to try and blame this horrific violence on “cis white men”?
Their silence sends a loud and clear message: We don’t care about the rape of Israeli and Jewish women. We don’t care if their broken bodies are paraded through streets by terrorists.
The silence of feminist and women’s organizations authorizes rape as a weapon of war […]
I expected more from human rights organizations devoted to women, feminist organizations created to expose atrocities committed against women.
Newsweek
More fool you, then. Have you paid no attention at all, over the last two decades?
When Muslim migrants organised the mass rape of thousands of women across European cities on New Year’s Eve, 2015-16, how did feminists respond?
By chanting the Islamic call to prayer (which, by the way, demonstrates their utter ignorance of Islam, as only men are allowed to do so. Not least because Islam forbids women from raising their voices.
By posing for their witless selfies, with their dinky little “refugees welcome” and “free Palestine” signs.
These feminist groups are as disgustingly hypocritical as the suicidally demented “Queers for Palestine”.
