The American Spectator
. . ."organizations, such as … Hamas … have explicitly divorced Palestinian women from various fundamental human rights."
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Danielle Waldman, 24-years-old, was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival near the Gaza border on October 7 |
"Since the latest outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th, the state of Israel has been relentlessly accused of systematically oppressing and abusing Palestinian women and girls.
"In fact, numerous political pundits have used International Women’s Day as the impetus to attack the state of Israel for the abuses that Palestinian women have allegedly been forced to endure since the latest outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th. "For example, various UN representatives and women’s rights advocates, such as Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, and Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory, recently issued an official statement wherein they claimed that the state of Israel has subjected women and children in Gaza to an “Onslaught of violence” and that “[Palestinian] women are being targeted by Israel with … vicious, indiscriminate, and disproportionate attacks, seemingly sparing no means to destroy their lives and deny them their fundamental human rights..” "Unfortunately, despite the fact that they claim to care deeply about the plight of every beleaguered woman and girl in the Gaza strip, the West Bank, and around the world, the overwhelming majority of all women’s rights advocates and organizations have refused to hold the Palestinian government and Palestinian organizations, such as Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, at all accountable for the horrific human rights violations and abuses that they have callously inflicted upon women and girls in Israel and Palestine alike.
"Firstly, countless avowed women’s rights advocates and self-professed feminists throughout the international political system have all elected to ignore the depraved violence and sexual abuse, as well as the innumerable human rights violations, that Israeli women have been forced to suffer as a result of Hamas’ attacks on October 7th.
"For example, Amit Soussana, one of the hostages that Hamas captured on October 7th, recently confirmed that, during her time as a Hamas captive, she was consistently subjected to dire human rights violations, and routinely forced to endure various grotesque forms of rape and sexual assault, as well as innumerable savage beatings. William Barclay is a political theorist and private consultant, as well as a contributor for Young Voices. William’s work has been published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Palgrave-Macmillan, The Hill Times, and the Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, among others.