On October 7th, 2023, thousands of Hamas soldiers poured over the Israeli border, butchered about 1,200 people, and kidnapped another 250. During this assault, men committed acts of savagery beyond imagination. The sexual crimes were particularly horrific.
From the very beginning, we all knew about the sexual crimes. After I saw the picture of the poor girl with the bloody sweatpants, I didn’t sleep that night. Eye witnesses, autopsies, and bodycam pictures from the Hamas soldiers revealed that girls were gang raped and mutilated. While girls were being raped, some had their breasts cut off, and their heads blown off.
Men continued to rape bodies that lacked breasts and heads. Think about that.
Because these rape stories were not getting enough attention by the media and were even ignored by the UN, Israel started a major information push this week. The stories that have come out are even worse than I heard the first week. I’ve been retweeting these stories on X to support their efforts.
Despite the widespread exposure of atrocities, college kids don’t seem to have gotten the memo. Ultra-privileged kids on the nation’s most elite colleges are marching through their campuses shouting anti-semitic slogans and rallying behind the rapists. College presidents from Harvard, Penn and MIT were grilled on these matters before Congress on December 5th. Why is everyone upset about October 7th except for college students? I have several theories.
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Yes it’s distressing that this is going on. Is it the age of the students or are we naturally inclined to want to put people into categories of good guy and bad guy?
Certainly one can acknowledge that Hamas committed some terrible atrocities while also being critical of the Israeli government’s military response.
Is it also another form of sexism, where women are expected to keep quiet when their experiences don’t fit an over simplified narrative?
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