Warning: The text below contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence.
“Jeopardy!” co-host Mayim Bialik slammed women’s organizations around the world for remaining silent on allegations that Hamas systematically raped Israeli women during the deadly October 7 terrorist attack.
The Jewish actress and talk show host called out the deafening silence over gender-based abuse of Israeli women – a war crime – on social media last Saturday.
“There is an abhorrent absence of women’s organizations around the world that clearly condemn the systematic rape and torture of women on October 7 by Hamas,” Bialik wrote in a long note to X. “Brutal mass rape, sexual torture, and feticide took place. Where is the “TRUST THEM” voice?”
Hamas militants killed 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, when they crossed the border and attacked families in their own homes and attendees of a major music festival. An Israeli forensic team that examined the victim’s body said they found multiple signs of rape, torture and other atrocities.
Mayim Bialik where “progressive feminists” follow horrific reports of sexual violence against Israeli women Mayim Bialik / Youtube
“We saw a lot of women with bloody underwear, broken bones, broken legs, broken pelvises,” a volunteer worker at Shura’s military morgue named Shari told the Washington Post.
An Israeli paramedic told the outlet he saw evidence including the presence of semen on the bodies of two teenage girls who were found dead in their bedrooms following the Oct. 7 attack.
A survivor of the Hamas raid on the Nova fairgrounds said she witnessed a gang rape as she pretended to be dead. He told police that he saw several terrorists rape a woman before one of them shot him in the head, according to the publication.
“He didn’t take his pants off,” she said in the video, where her face is obscured to protect her identity. “He shot her while inside her.”
Hamas has denied allegations of sexual violence.
Israel held a meeting at the United Nations building in Geneva Monday to expose the atrocities committed by Hamas against women during the October 7 attacks.
One of the event’s speakers, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, said the UN women’s rights group “downplayed” and “minimized” the sexual torture of Israeli women at the meeting.
Bialik also slammed groups including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women for their response to the report.
“Those of us who have fought for women’s rights and have sought to shout from the rooftops when women’s bodies are used in war for the sadistic pleasure of perpetrators are appalled at how silent the world has been around this,” she tweeted.
“Progressive feminists of the world: where are you?” Bialik added.
Bialik calls out the UN for not condemning gender-based violence sooner. AP
The game show host, who is also a neuroscientist, included a link to an opinion piece written by Israeli First Lady Michal Herzog and published in Newsweek last week.
“It’s not that the condemnation of gender-based violence by Hamas is weak or inadequate — it is not at all,” Herzog wrote. “Statement after statement by organizations such as UN Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has failed to condemn this crime. They are failing us, and all women, at this critical time.”
The UN human rights office said it condemned the Hamas attack as “heinous, brutal and shocking,” but said Israel had not given its monitors access to the country to investigate alleged crimes against women.
Meanwhile, Israeli officials said they had provided “very graphic and descriptive” documentation of the violence to the UN.
“We have sent letters and shared graphic documentation,” Sarah Weiss Maudi, a senior diplomat and legal adviser at Israel’s Foreign Ministry, told Fox News Digital. “Their silence is so deafening it’s sickening.”
With Postal wire.
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