Feminist Silence: Hamas's Sexual Violence

by Nils A. Haug  •  March 28, 2024 at 5:00 am

• In November 2023, it was reported that the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem, notwithstanding overwhelming evidence to the contrary, claimed the evidence against Hamas "was 'not solid' enough to warrant a statement" -- to which London's Victims' Commissioner, Claire Waxman, replied: "How can we talk about eliminating violence against women and girls if we are tacitly saying its acceptable to rape Jewish ones?"

• Alsalem, from Jordan, claims the charges against Israeli forces are "reasonably credible," but refuses to divulge the source. In reality, no credible or proven instance of this behaviour by Israel's forces in Gaza since October 7 has been publicly recorded.

• "Organizations that fight for LGBT rights condemned the country that allows freedom, and marched for a terrorist organization that punishes gay people with death." — Jared Kushner, townhall.com, March 7, 2024.

• "Above all, we must at all times remember what intellectuals habitually forget: that people matter more than concepts and must come first. The worst of all despotisms is the heartless tyranny of ideas." — Paul Johnson, historian, thepublicdiscourse.com, January 23, 2023.

• Early women's liberation movements, forerunners to present feminist activism, were founded to proclaim women's rights to social equality. Radical feminism, as a narrow expression of the original movement, fails spectacularly in exemplifying society's moral and ethical precepts. Its advocates appear to prioritize narcissistic, egocentric identity ideologies over the sanctity, dignity, and ontological security of the individual woman.

• "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, December 10, 1986.

For all advocates for women's welfare, especially in the area of sexual violence, the crucial concern at this time should be the terror perpetrated on defenceless females of all ages through acts of sexual depravity, torture, and death by Hamas in Israel on October 7. Pictured: A demonstration outside of United Nations headquarters in New York City on December 4, 2023, labeled "#MeToo unless you are a Jew," protesting the UN's silence about sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas terrorists against Israeli women and girls. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)

In November 2023, the UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy penned a poem, "We See You," celebrating the triumph of female soccer players. Success of women in traditional men's sports is certainly something to celebrate. Even so, a Poet Laureate's task is surely also to reflect deep contemporary issues affecting the nation. Duffy, a devoted feminist, gender activist, and supporter of the oppressed, has yet to address the most seminal issue of the moment for women's welfare: the horrific and systemic gender-based violence suffered by innocent Israeli girls and women, many raped to death, abused, tortured, massacred, with their sexual organs carved from their bodies by Hamas murderers on October 7, 2023. Perhaps she still might comment or pen an emotive poem, perhaps not.

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Biden Lies To America, Tells the Truth To China

by Daniel Greenfield  •  March 28, 2024 at 4:00 am

• When the spy balloon was first detected, the initial response by the Biden administration had been to suppress news about it and then to deny that the administration had been aware of it.... But when a Montana resident's footage of the spy balloon went viral, the Biden cover-up fell apart.

• ...[T]he Biden administration fully committed to covering up "difficult subjects"... One of those difficult subjects was China's spy base in Cuba. After the Wall Street Journal reported that China had agreed to pay Cuba billions to build a spy base, the Biden administration denied it.

• And then it had to admit it anyway.

• The cover-ups, in the name of anti-racism or diplomacy, allowed the Communist regime a clear field for spying on the United States while suppressing the story, so Biden wouldn't get blamed.

• By the fall of last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Chinese infiltrators trying to access American military bases "as many as 100 times in recent years".

• [T]here is every reason to believe that the situation may be worse than we realize.

• Governments normally conceal information about enemy activities so as not to tip off foreign spies, but the Biden administration's consistent pattern has been to hide the information from Americans rather than from Russia and China... China can trust the White House, but we can't.

The Biden administration's cover-ups, in the name of anti-racism or diplomacy, allowed China's Communist regime a clear field for spying on the United States while suppressing the story, so Biden wouldn't get blamed. Pictured: US President Joe Biden with Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

"When I was director of intelligence for the Indo-Pacific Command, for example, I watched as numerous requests to publicize Chinese malign activities were disapproved by Washington," US Navy Rear Admiral Mike Studeman recently warned.

The former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence had served between 2022 and 2023, and during that time one of the suppressed stories about China's attacks involved "Beijing's use of high-altitude surveillance balloons over the sovereign airspaces of the US," which came "many months before the shooting down of a Chinese balloon flying over the US."

After the spy balloon was exposed, Biden administration officials had claimed that there had been multiple spy balloon overflights under Trump and only one under Biden, which went unnoticed at the time, but the US Navy was clearly aware and had been ordered to keep quiet by D.C. about the multiple incursions by Chinese spy balloons under Biden.

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Senator Joe Lieberman

March 28, 2024 at 3:00 am

Pictured: Joseph Lieberman, then a Senator for Connecticut, flanked by lawmakers from both parties, speaks at a press conference calling for the federal government to upgrade the communications network used by emergency services, on November 15, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

We deeply mourn the untimely passing of Gatestone Institute's Advisory Board member, former Senator Joe Lieberman -- a true American hero and stellar human being. Together with his beloved Hadassah, he sought to build bridges and was the voice of reason and ethics. May his memory be a blessing.