The Israel Rape Crisis Center Association (ARCCI) said in a statement it was “heartbroken” after learning that the director of the Israel Sexual Violence Center University of AlbertaCanada, signed an open letter They deny that women were raped during the Hamas attack on October 7th.
“It is incredible that an organization is familiar with the muting mechanism [de vítimas de estupro]choose it and deny the victims,” the Israeli association said in a post on social media.
Samantha PearsonDirector of the Sexual Violence Center was fired from her post after signing the open letter.
“It is important, but it is not enough,” says the Israeli association. “Denial must be fought.”
The open letter as shown by Catarina Rochamonte in The antagonistwas written by two Canadian politicians, Sarah Jama, an Ontario MP, and Susan Kim, a councilor in Victoria.
“We, the undersigned, residents of Canada, call on Canadian political leaders to end their complicity in the ongoing massacres and genocides in Gaza, occupied Palestine,” they wrote. The signatories demand the removal of the MPs and the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeaubecause he refused to call for a “ceasefire.”
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