Rafael Medoff - The Lid (lidblog.com)
There was a time when self-described human rights advocates such as Samantha Power, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International earned the international community’s respect for their defense of the innocent and the oppressed. But they have forfeited that respect by failing to defend the human right of Jewish women to not be raped.
" Rape during the Rwanda genocide? Outrageous. Rape during the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia? Abhorrent. Rape by Hamas terrorists? Not worthy of comment.
"That’s the troubling position taken by Samantha Power, a senior official in the Obama and Biden administrations who has built her career on her concern for victims of genocide, sexual atrocities, and other human rights abuses.
" Power, a journalist, authored the 2002 book “‘A Problem from Hell’; America and the Age of Genocide,” which blasted the United States and the international community for turning a blind eye to multiple instances of mass murder over the past century.
"The book won a Pulitzer Prize and catapulted Power to the position of senior policy adviser to presidential candidate Barack Obama and then the post of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama administration. Today, as head of the United States Agency for Development (USAID), she remains one of our nation’s most prominent spokespeople on human rights.
"Power’s declared concerns include the use of rape as a weapon of genocide. Well, the rape of some women, at least.
"In her book, she wrote of Turkish forces raping Armenian women in 1915. She described how Serb forces imprisoned Bosnia Muslim women in “rape camps” during the 1990s ethnic cleansing atrocities in the Balkans. She recounted how an international war crimes tribunal convicted a Rwandan mayor of genocide specifically because he used systematic rape against the Tutsi minority in 1994.
"Power’s X (Twitter) feed since the October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel has included dozens of posts about the suffering of Arab civilians in Gaza. Oddly, however, she has never tweeted about the numerous Israeli-Jewish women who were raped by Hamas terrorists.
"Power is a reasonably prolific tweeter. She posts something almost every day, and sometimes as many as eight to ten messages in a single day. She occasionally even uses her USAID account to circulate posts that stray beyond the agency’s mission, such as the imprisonment of a Russian pacifist or Uganda’s anti-gay law.
"To be clear, Power does tweet about some rape victims. On November 2, for example, she posted about attacks on women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On December 1, she wrote about “horrific sexual violence” against women in Sudan. She urged her readers to check out the “important reporting by Reuters” on that subject." . . .
Degenerate Animals [Updated] | Power Line "Glenn Reynolds quotes some of the same accounts of rape and sexual mutilation of Israeli girls and women by Gazans that I wrote about here. What the Arab Muslims did on October 7 isn’t just unspeakable, it is almost unimaginable. Glenn comments:" . . .
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