Why has Hamas’s violence against women been ignored? A reflection on the path to persuasive hope
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
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Israel accused the United Nations on Monday of failing to respond adequately to accounts that Hamas carried out widespread sexual violence against women when it attacked Israel on October 7. However, despite overwhelming evidence of Hamas’s brutal crimes against women, their brutality has been ignored, described as morally equivalent to Israel’s response in Gaza, or even defended in the West. But many who are supporting Hamas have also been vocal in fighting for gender equality. Why, then, are they ignoring or justifying the terrorists’ violence against women?
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Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. Today is Wednesday, December 6th, 2023. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, |
| 0:08.3 | narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:12.5 | Israel accused the United Nations on Monday of failing to respond adequately to accounts that Hamas carried out widespread sexual violence against women when it |
| 0:22.8 | attacked Israel on October 7th. According to Jilad Erdin, Israel's ambassador to the UN, |
| 0:29.0 | quote, sadly, the very international bodies that are supposed to be defenders of all women |
| 0:34.8 | showed that when it comes to Israelis, indifference is acceptable." |
| 0:39.3 | About 150 activists also marched in front of the UN headquarters. |
| 0:44.3 | One speaker said, |
| 0:45.3 | When the institutions that are globally mandated to protect women stay silent, |
| 0:50.3 | not only international law loses meaning, humanity's shared values lose meaning. Yesterday, |
| 0:56.7 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu similarly voiced his anger that the international community |
| 1:02.8 | is ignoring atrocities against Israeli women. Their statement highlighted one of the great |
| 1:08.2 | travesties resulting from Hamas' slaughter of Israelis on October 7th. |
| 1:12.9 | Despite overwhelming evidence of Hamas' brutal crimes against women, |
| 1:16.8 | their brutality has been ignored, described as morally equivalent to Israel's response in Gaza, |
| 1:23.5 | or even defended in the West. |
| 1:26.1 | Some of this silence and even support for Hamas can be explained simply as anti-Semitism. |
| 1:32.0 | For example, protesters targeted a Jewish-owned kosher falafel shop in Philadelphia with chance of genocide, |
| 1:39.9 | moving Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to call the demonstration a blatant act of anti-Semitism, |
| 1:46.6 | and to warn, this hate and bigotry is reminiscent of a dark time in history. |
| 1:52.2 | Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Lance Morrow describes the rising anti-Semitism after October |
| 1:57.8 | 7th as the return of pure hatred of the Jews. However, as Maro notes, |
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