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Published November 29, 2023, 8:47 p.m. ET
Warning: The following text contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence.
“Danger!” Co-host Mayim Bialik criticized women’s organizations around the world for their silence on Hamas’s alleged systematic rapes of Israeli women during the deadly Oct. 7 terror attack.
The Jewish actress and talk show host took to social media last Saturday to draw attention to the deafening silence surrounding the gender-based abuse of Israeli women – a war crime.
“There was an abhorrent and conspicuous absence of women’s organizations around the world unequivocally condemning Hamas’s systematic rape and torture of women on October 7,” Bialik said wrote in a long post to X. “There were brutal gang rapes, sexual torture and the murder of fetuses – period. Where are the “believe them” voices?”
Hamas militants killed 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, as they crossed the border and attacked families in their own homes and attendees at a major music festival. Israeli forensic teams that examined the bodies of the dead said they found numerous signs of rape, torture and other atrocities committed by the victims.
Mayim Bialik, where the “progressive feminists” followed reports of horrific sexual violence against Israeli women Mayim Bialik / YouTube
“We saw a lot of women with bloody underwear, with broken bones, broken legs, broken pelvises,” Shari, a volunteer at the Shura military mortuary, told The Washington Post.
An Israeli medic told the outlet he saw evidence including the presence of semen on the bodies of two teenage girls who were found dead in their bedroom after the Oct. 7 attack.
A survivor of the Hamas raid on the Nova festival site said she witnessed a gang rape while pretending to be dead. She told police she saw several terrorists raping a woman before one of them shot her in the head, the release said.
“He didn’t lift his pants,” she said in a video in which her face was blurred to protect her identity. “He shot her while he was inside her.”
Hamas has denied the allegations of sexual violence.
Israel held a meeting at the United Nations building in Geneva on Monday to highlight Hamas’s atrocities against women during the Oct. 7 attack.
One of the event’s speakers, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, said U.N. women’s rights groups “downplayed” and “minimized” the sexual torture of Israeli women at the meeting.
Bialik also criticized the groups, including the United Nations Organization for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, for their response to the reports.
“Those of us who have fought for women’s rights and tried to shout from the rooftops when women’s bodies are used for the sadistic pleasure of perpetrators in war are amazed at how the world has remained silent about this,” she tweeted.
“Progressive Feminists of the World: Where are you?” Bialik added.
Bialik called on the UN not to condemn gender-based violence earlier. AP
The game show host, who is also a neuroscientist, included a link to an opinion piece written by the First Lady of Israel Michal Herzog and published in Newsweek last week.
“It is not that Hamas’s condemnation of gender-based violence has been weak or insufficient – there has been none at all,” Herzog wrote. “Statement after statement from organizations such as UN Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has failed to condemn these crimes. They have failed us and all women at this critical moment.”
The U.N. human rights office said it condemned the Hamas attack as “abhorrent, brutal and shocking” but said Israel had not allowed its monitors access to the country to investigate the alleged crimes against women.
Meanwhile, Israeli officials said they had provided the United Nations with “very graphic and graphic” documentation of the violence.
“We sent letters and shared graphic documentation,” Sarah Weiss Maudi, a senior diplomat and legal adviser at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, told Fox News Digital. “Their silence is so deafening it makes you sick.”
With post wires.
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