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“Danger!” Host Mayim Bialik took to social media to call out feminists for their silence on the rape and murder of women during the October 7 Hamas terror attacks in Israel.
“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 wrote on Xformerly known as Twitter, on November 25th. “There were brutal gang rapes, sexual torture and the murder of fetuses – period. Where are the ‘believe them’ voices?”
“These crimes against women were, in many cases, documented by the terrorists themselves and broadcast for the world to see,” she added. “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 astonished at how the world has remained silent about this.”
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“Progressive Feminists of the World: Where are you?” she asked.
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The American actress and game show host is Jewish and known for her feminist comments. (ABC/Tyler Golden ABC via Getty Images)
The American actress and game show host is Jewish and known for her feminist comments. She appealed to the United Nations, particularly UN Women and the United Nations Organization for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, which took 50 days to express “concern.”
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Women’s rights groups and officials in Israel have worked to document cases of rape and gender-based atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists during their mass terror attack on October 7. But they said they were ignored by the United Nations when they passed on evidence of their brutal behavior.
“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’s sickening.”
“What I don’t understand is that we have presented very graphic and graphic evidence of rape, including gang rape and semen residue on young girls. That wasn’t good enough for the UN,” said Weiss Maudi. “Nevertheless, the data provided by the Hamas Ministry of Health is accepted and cited without any verification.”
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On the UN Women website, the only reference to Israel since the October 7 massacre addresses the “devastating impact of the crisis on women and girls in Gaza,” where Hamas’s health ministry estimates more than 11,200 people have been killed. Of these, around 4,506 are said to be children and 3,027 women.
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Israeli girl captured by Hamas terrorists and taken to Gaza. Not pictured, the back of the girl’s pants was soaked in blood. (FOX News Digital)
Bialik tweeted a link to an article by First Lady of Israel Michal Herzog in Newsweek, which she said was trying to draw attention to it.
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“In the 1990s, international authorities and legal experts finally began to consider violence against women as a special category of war crimes,” Herzog wrote. “Organizations like UN Women exist to protect women from such crimes, while Israeli experts and activists have been involved in these international efforts. Hence our second shock: the unimaginable and unforgivable silence of these organizations in the face of the rape and murder of Israeli women.”
“It is not that Hamas’s condemnation of gender-based violence has been weak or insufficient – there has been none at all,” she added. “Organizations such as UN Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have failed, in statement after statement, to condemn these crimes. They have failed us and all women at this critical moment.”
Bialik also tweeted a link to an article by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, in which she urged people to “denounce these rapes in every conversation, at every rally, and on signs on every street corner.” We must forget our conflicting political and policy interests and remember our common humanity.
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Bialik announced in September 2023 that she would be stepping down from hosting “Celebrity Jeopardy!” (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for the Los Angeles LGBT Center)
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The rape and murder of Israeli women was documented by Hamas, including in two short videos shared by the terrorists themselves that emerged after October 7. They show groups of cheering Palestinian men, some of them armed, crowding the streets of Gaza half-naked and armed with blood-stained young Israeli women.
Israeli police and the October 7 Hamas Civilian Commission on Crimes Against Women are working to compile a database of gender-based atrocities, saying sexual violence was widespread and systematic during the terrorist attack and even by the Islamist fundamentalist group’s religious and faith-based organizations Spiritual leaders were advocated as permissible during the war.
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A spokeswoman for UN Women said the organization “unequivocally condemns all forms of violence against women and girls and any use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, which is a serious violation of human rights. This is never acceptable.” International Humanitarian “Law and human rights must be respected and upheld at all times,” Fox News Digital said in a previous request for comment.
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Ruth Marks Eglash of Fox News contributed to this report.