Noa Tishby Instagram – ⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️
Last week, I spoke at the US Capitol about the gender based violence committed by Hamas on October 7th.
Everywhere Hamas carried out massacres, they also carried out violence against women and girls so gruesome, so sadistic that the words “rape” or “sexual violence” do not capture the true scale of the horror.
These rapes were not spontaneous. They were planned and priority. They were the very core of Hamas’s October 7th attack.
For Jihadi groups like Hamas, women are not equal to men. They are property to be owned by men. Without power, without control and, if she does something deemed disrespectful to a man or to the family, like walking down the street with any other man – without the right to life.
Hamas had a twisted logic for these systematic gang rapes: they wanted to claim ownership of Israeli women and girls. In a conflict involving a “motherland” Hamas was trying to make a point: if we own your mothers, your sisters and your daughters, then one day we will own you, and we will own your land.
So these jihadi psychopaths invaded Israel with specific orders to rape, defile and disfigure as many women and girls as possible. In their interrogations, captured Hamas terrorists calmly shared their orders. To soil the women.
Hamas is the political manifestation of rape culture.
And the silence of those who are usually quick to defend other women but had nothing to say about one of the most barbaric systematic attacks on women ever carried out, is deafening.
I beg you to give me any other explanation for this silence than – Me too unless you’re a Jew.
Rape is not resistance. There is only resisting rape.
Hamas hates women and it hates Jews and in Hamas’s sick worldview when you rape a woman, you own her. So they wanted to soil us, they wanted to terrorize us, they wanted to own us.
But Israeli women, Jewish women: we will not be owned and we will not be obliterated. We are warriors, tank commanders and survivors. We will not be silenced. Not by a jihadi death cult and not by its supporters.
The people of Israel live. The women of Israel live.
Am Israel Chaya חיה
Video produced by @YoavDavis for #DavisMedia | Posted on 20/Feb/2024 21:22:37