Mar 24 2025, 10:03 AM
#12
(Mar 24 2025, 8:20 AM)Wrongtoy Fuck, I bet I’d be downvoted myself for what I’m going to say, but the fact is that Haaretz reported that Israeli pathologist found no evidence of rape on Oct 7 bodies. Nor have there been first person claims of rape from released female hostages. The same witnesses who claimed “hearing women raped” are of the same group that said there were 40 beheaded babies (there was one child killed) and babies baked in ovens. The idf itself chose to walk back the latter.
The cynical abuse of of sexual violence and exploitation of "believe women" is something I can never forgive Israel for. Capitalizing on the already out-of-control racism their sympathisers have about the intrinsic barbarism of SWANA people doesn't just naturalise violence against these people, it sows doubt about feminist approaches to disclosing sexual violence, if not outright discredits them. It is so disgustingly cynical, it simply cannot be in womens' best interest to blindly capitulate to every deeply misogynistic imperialist government who jingles the keys in front of our faces to justify regime change and occupation because the men belonging to the Bad Guys™ do bad things. We KNOW the whole world hates women, and if you know that, you should know better than to capitulate whenever the keys are jingled in your face.
What turned me from a neutral/"it's complicated" position on Israel was the de rigeur descriptions and depictions of the sexual violence female IOF members (and citizens who refused conscription) themselves were subjected to. It should not be a reach to connect the dots about the sexual violence inherent to colonization and ethnic cleansing. It is very well-documented. It shouldn't even be demanded that we justify opposition to
genocide on feminist grounds, but for fuck's sake, you absolutely can!
