{"id":12836,"date":"2023-12-14T01:59:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T01:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/hamas-survivor-refutes-progressives-downplaying-terrorists-sexual-violence\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T01:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T01:59:59","slug":"hamas-survivor-refutes-progressives-downplaying-terrorists-sexual-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/hamas-survivor-refutes-progressives-downplaying-terrorists-sexual-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas survivor refutes progressives downplaying terrorists\u2019 sexual violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recently released Hamas hostage\u2019s revelation of sexual violence against her fellow captives appears to refute anti-Israel progressives who tend to downplay or dismiss terrorists\u2019 atrocities.<\/p>\n

Chen Goldstein-Almog, 48, was held hostage by Hamas with three of her children for 51 days following the Palestinian terrorist group\u2019s Oct. 7 attack on Israelis.<\/p>\n

Her husband and eldest daughter were murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the attack.<\/p>\n

Goldstein-Almog and her children were released by the terror group, and the wife and mother gave an interview with the Israeli press on Dec. 11 about her time as a hostage.<\/p>\n

During her interview, Goldstein-Almog revealed she heard firsthand accounts of sexual violence from other female hostages by their Hamas captors.<\/p>\n

\u2018I heard the testimony directly from girls and heard things second hand,\u2019 Goldstein-Almog said. \u2018Some of the sexual violence happened well into our time in Gaza, not in the first week.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018But the way their bodies were desecrated, they don\u2019t know how they will deal with that. It happened weeks into their time in Gaza,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018If they were released earlier, they would\u2019ve been saved from experiencing sexual violence,\u2019 Goldstein-Almog added.<\/p>\n

Goldstein-Almog said they \u2018heard three stories firsthand of women saying they were sexually abused and we heard an additional story.\u2019 She added that \u2018presumably, there are more instances\u2019 of sexual violence by Hamas.<\/p>\n

The former hostage also said she \u2018was threatened once when they thought I was wandering around and looking free\u2019 in the first apartment they were taken to and that \u2018there was a threat that\u2019 she would \u2018be handcuffed, but it didn\u2019t happen.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I said I have kids and nothing happened to me,\u2019 Goldstein-Almog said. \u2018It was the only time I felt under threat [of sexual violence].\u2019<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Biden administration State Department noted earlier this month that one of the reasons Hamas does not want to release women hostages is because \u2018they don\u2019t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them.\u2019<\/p>\n

Many American progressives have been largely silent on Hamas\u2019 sexual violence against Israelis, while some have downplayed or dismissed the reports of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

Briahna Joy Gray, a former national press secretary for Bernie Sanders\u2019 presidential campaign, tweeted earlier this month, \u201dBelieve all women\u2019 was always an absurd overreach: woman should be heard, claims should be investigated, but evidence is required.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The same is true of the allegations out of Israel,\u2019 Gray wrote in a Dec. 4 tweet. \u2018But also, this isn\u2019t a \u2018believe women\u2019 scenario bc no female victims have offered testimony.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2018Zionists are asking that we believe the uncorroborated eyewitness account of *men* who describe alleged rape victims in odd, fetishistic terms,\u2019 Gray continued in a subsequent tweet.<\/p>\n

\u2018Shame on Israel for not seriously investigating claims of rape and collecting rape kits,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n

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Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., was torched after she clashed with CNN\u2019s Dana Bash over the lack of widespread condemnation of Hamas\u2019 use of sexual violence against Israeli women during the Oct. 7 attacks.<\/p>\n

The Washington state Democrat suggested that wasn\u2019t true, and claimed she had already condemned Hamas\u2019 treatment of women, before quickly turning the conversation back to Israel.<\/p>\n

\u2018But I think we have to remember Israel is a democracy. That is why they\u2019re a strong ally of ours. And if they do not comply with international humanitarian law, they are bringing themselves to a place that makes it much more difficult strategically for them to be able to build allies, to keep public opinion with them, and frankly, morally, we cannot say that one war crime deserves another. That is not what international humanitarian law says,\u2019 Jayapal said.<\/p>\n

\u2018With respect, I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I\u2019m asking you about Hamas,\u2019 Bash said.<\/p>\n

The lawmaker said she had already answered the question and added, \u2018We have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians. Fifteen thousand Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, three-quarters of whom are women and children.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018And it\u2019s horrible,\u2019 Bash said. \u2018But you don\u2019t see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t want this to be the hierarchies of oppressions,\u2019 Jayapal said.<\/p>\n

Jayapal has since issued a statement \u2018unequivocally\u2019 condemning \u2018Hamas\u2019 use of rape and sexual violence as an act of war.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018This is horrific and across the world, we must stand with our sisters, families, and survivors of rape and sexual assault everywhere to condemn this violence and hold perpetrators accountable,\u2019 Jayapal said.<\/p>\n

Neither Jayapal nor Gray immediately responded to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Hanna Panreck contributed reporting.<\/p>\n\n

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