Summary

The website content discusses the targeted gender-based violence against women, particularly by Hamas, and criticizes the feminist movement's perceived silence and selective empathy regarding these atrocities, especially in relation to Jewish and Israeli women.

Abstract

The article titled "RAPE / BARBARISM / FEMINISM" on the website highlights the brutal attacks on women during a Hamas assault, emphasizing the savagery that included rape, murder, and the specific targeting of pregnant women and children. It condemns the feminist movement's lack of response to these crimes, suggesting a systemic issue within feminism that overlooks the plight of Jewish women due to an inherent aversion to Jewish issues. The piece argues that despite the feminist movement's origins with significant contributions from Jewish women, there is a disturbing trend of dismissing the suffering of Israeli women, which is attributed to an intersectional blind spot. The author accuses some feminists of denying the reality of these atrocities, thereby intensifying the victims' trauma, and questions the authenticity of the feminist cause when it comes to supporting women who do not fit a certain narrative.

Opinions

The author believes that feminists are hypocritical for ignoring the plight of Israeli and Jewish women who have been victims of severe gender-based violence.
There is a critique of the feminist movement for its failure to acknowledge and address the rape culture and misogyny perpetuated by Hamas, which the author considers one of the most publicized attacks on women in history.
The article suggests that some feminists' support for the Palestinian cause has led to a denial of the atrocities committed against Israeli women, revealing a selective empathy based on political ideology rather than genuine concern for women's rights.
The author implies that the feminist movement has a "Jewish problem," historically marginalizing the unique challenges faced by Jewish women, including antisemitism.
The piece challenges the concept of intersectionality, arguing that it is being misused to justify the silence on Palestinian patriarchy and honor killings, as well as to excuse the lack of solidarity with Jewish women.
There is a call for feminists to recognize the testimonies and evidence of the atrocities, including reports from the IDF, pathologists, and captured Hamas terrorists, and to confront their own biases and complicity in the erasure of these victims' experiences.

RAPE / BARBARISM / FEMINISM

The Bloodiest and Most Publicized Attacks on Women in History.

Feminists, where are you?

Footage released from an interrogation of a captured Hamas terrorist. He tells the interrogator that included in his directives were instructions to rape girls and women. X.

Note: some sections of this article are difficult to read. Stay with me, though. My message is to the feminists.

On Oct. 7, Hamas unleashed a savage assault. They were equal-opportunity killers, kidnappers, and abusers. Their bloody hysteria whacked everyone in their path — babies, the elderly, Israeli Arabs, Thai workers, Bedouins, special needs children, and, not surprisingly, Israeli Jews.

They especially delight in targeting women — raping them, slaughtering them, cutting babies out of pregnant women’s wombs, torturing mothers and grandmothers in front of their families — and, I fear, sexually enslaving some of the hostages.

The world witnessed these travesties because the barbarians gleefully filmed them and then encouraged Palestinians and pro-Palestinian progressives to spread them across social media.

It showed brutal gender- and sexual-based violence, including rape and femicide. One video shows a woman who appears to have been beaten and bleeding into her shorts, forced out of a Jeep in Gaza. Another video shows a woman stripped down to her underwear and lying face down in a truck; her legs twisted at unnatural angles. Hamas gunmen sit on her body, and bystanders spit on it.

These videos and many, many more taken by the terrorists themselves were secondary assaults on the victims’ self-worth. It made this orgy of misogyny one of the bloodiest and most publicized attacks on women in history.

The feminist blindness to these crimes is particularly outrageous given gender studies’ stated commitment to eradicating rape culture, with its silence, its skepticism, its victim-shaming, and its victim-blaming.

But this violation also points to a deeper, endemic scandal the feminist movement has silenced, namely, many radical feminists’ innate aversion to Jewish women and Jewish issues.

Even though many Jews launched the women’s movement, feminism has long had a Jewish problem. From Betty Friedan to Bella Abzug, Jewish women were among the most visible forces in American feminism — even as feminists often rendered invisible their particular challenges as Jewish women facing sexism and antisemitism.

So to feminists who hate Israel, the women that Hamas targeted were not women but merely Jews — or subhumans — not worthy of solidarity.

Oh, but we could call this heartlessness toward Jews — and silence about Palestinian patriarchy and honor killings — “blocked at the intersectionalism.”

Intersectionality is a term coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. It recognizes that certain individuals face multiple and intersecting forms of structural discrimination. We all deserve to have our voices heard, our faces and experiences reflected in culture and media, and our unique needs addressed through relevant policies.

But you don’t get up one day and get to say, ‘I’m kind of forced to rape and murder because I’ve been blocked.’

As a form of intellectual activism, the approach by which we challenge exclusionary practices and encourage feminist dialogues is part of the intersectional practice of feminists — when we enact our refusal to be made invisible or irrelevant.

But after three weeks of hearing how this sadistic saturnalia-wild revelry- is now being told the worst abuses never happened.

Once again, the hypocrisy is stunning.

Feminists teach that denying sexual assault intensifies the trauma, erasing the victim’s personhood yet again. Nevertheless, some feminists are questioning the stories — perhaps because they don’t want to confront their blind support for the Palestinian cause.

They want to deny the vile photos and videos, the reports from the media, IDF officials, pathologists, and volunteers at the overworked morgues, or testimonies from captured Hamas criminals describing “having sex with dead bodies, meaning the body of a dead young woman,” because the goal was “to dirty them, to rape them.”

Do you really call yourselves feminists?

I suppose your empathy is selective, after all.

Unfortunately, I have lost faith in humanity.

Here’s a poem by @Sherry Atkinson. The pain in her words is palpable. Thank you @marcusMaidman ❤️