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Arabs Harass Female ‘Peace’ Activists; Left Silences Victims
by Gil Ronen
Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new homes.
Roni Aloni Sedovnik, a feminist activist, penned an article in News1 – an independent website run by respected investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak – under the heading “The Left’s Betrayal of Female Peace Activists Who were Sexually Assaulted.”
“A nauseous atrocity has been going on for a long time behind the scenes at the leftists’ demonstration at Bil’in, Naalin and Sheikh Jarrah [Shimon HaTzaddik],” she writes. “A dark secret that threatens to smash the basic ideological values upon which the demand to end the occupation of the Territories rests.”
It turns out, she explains, that when female peace activists from Israel and abroad come out to Judea and Samaria and demonstrate against the Israeli “occupation,” they are assaulted sexually by the Arab men whom they have come to help. These are not isolated incidents, Aloni-Sedovnik stresses. Rather, this is an “ongoing and widespread” phenomenon that includes verbal and physical abuse. She accuses the ‘peace’ camp of purposely covering up the trend so as not to offend “the Palestinians and their heritage, which sees women as sexual objects.”
Media cover-up
Aloni-Sedovnik cites two specific cases which she has knowledge of – one is a case of rape and another is “severe sexual harassment.” The attackers in both cases, she stresses, were familiar with the victims and knew that they were “peace activists.”
The rape occurred several months ago in the village of Umm Salmona, near Bethlehem. The victim, an American activist, wanted to press charges but leftist activists put pressure on her not to do so, so as not to damage the struggle against the ‘occupation.’
The second case involved an Israeli activist who took part in the demonstrations at Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, where the High Court ruled that Jewish families may move into homes that they have owned for generations. This woman filed a complaint with the police but retracted it after “severe and unfair pressure” from the demonstrations’ organizers, according to Aloni-Sedovnik. Furthermore, the organizers appealed to demonstrators to dress modestly when they come to the Arab neighborhoods and suggested that they wear head scarves.
Aloni-Sedovnik accuses the Israeli media of complicity in the cover-up.
“How is it that we do not hear the voice of the radical feminists who repeat, day and night, that occupation is occupation, and it does not matter if it is a nation that is doing the subjugation, or a man who is subjugating a woman?
“It appears that there is a gap between the radical-leftist feminist theory about the active resistance to the occupation of the Territories, and the stuttering self-annulment in the face of the violent conquest of women.”
The Umm Salmona case was reported in Haaretz as an attempted rape but does not seem to have made it beyond the blog pages.
Foreign women raped and subjugated
Earlier this year, a blogger and literature buff named Yehudah Bello, who writes in various venues about history and the theory of evolution, wrote a blog post with the striking title: “The Female Leftist Activists are Raped Day after Day, Night after Night.” Bello is no ultra-nationalist, and he supports the creation of a PA state – a fact which makes his claims all the more believable.
Most female leftist European activists, writes Bello, are brainwashed in their youth into hating Israel, and then sent directly into Judea and Samaria, without spending a single night in Tel Aviv, lest they see civilian Israeli society for themselves and find that they like it. They are whisked off to Shechem, Jenin and other PA towns and housed in Arab educational or cultural facilities, or private homes. Local Arab girls are sent to befriend them and they have no choice but to trust them.
It is is easy, explains Bello, “to carry out a sexual crime against a foreign girl, in her first days away from her family, in a place where no police have ever visited. And this is what happens, and has happened.”
“I was told of such rape cases by women who are not Jewish: a female European leftist activist, a female Red Cross volunteer and a young Arab woman from Yafo,” he says. He says that he met these women when he carried out IDF reserve duty, and met them afterward as well. “They told me what goes on there, in the Palestinian villages, far from any prying eye.”
“These are not just cases of rape carried out to satisfy lust,” he writes. “Usually, they are carried out systematically in order to make the girl pregnant and then take her as a wife – after she converts to Islam, of course. We know about this system from the stories of women who underwent a similar process within Israel and escaped to Europe. But it is hard to escape from the Palestinian territories. Sometimes these women – some of whom are no longer young – are never allowed to leave their homes unaccompanied, in order to forestall their escape.”
If someone were to compare the list of foreign female activists who enter Judea and Samaria to the list of those who leave, Bello claims, the magnitude of the phenomenon would be proven. “Everyone knows about it, but no one dares talk about it. The Palestinians have been turned into martyrs. In the Middle Eastern television channels, IDF soldiers are represented as the brutal rapists, who rape Palestinian women.”
New Israel Fund involvement
The reports by Aloni-Sedovnik and Bello are of particular interest because feminist groups have been spearheading leftist activism in Israel for many years. According to Gila Svirsky, the former director of the New Israel Fund in Israel and founder of NIF-sponsored Women’s Coalition for Peace, “women’s peace organizations, known collectively as the Israeli women’s peace movement, became the most vibrant and persistent part of the peace camp in Israel.” These groups espouse an ideology which equates militarism (by Israelis) with male domination of women. Far from being a fringe element, leftist-feminists of this ilk are a dominant force in the Israeli academic world, the press, the Knesset and the judicial system.
I am posting this very important article with the hopes that others too will spread the word. We must speak out for women everywhere.
Women around the world are being abused, raped, and held against their will, but the world continues to ignore their cries for help. Why? It is because it is not politically correct to tell the truth and fight for justice and honor in the 21st century, is it? Gone are the days when Western men fought all those who would threaten us. Gone are the days when men have the courage to stand up and do the morally right thing.
The Progressive media, to their shame, is silent and presents Islam as this religion of peace who is not a threat. WRONG, it is a threat because it holds women in slavery.
I know what it is like to live as a woman to believe that you are born as a slave to man. Jeff and his CI church were like many Islams in their regards to women and our role in society. The FLDS is another church who holds these save views. Yet, Progressives are silent on this subject. Their attitude is I DON’T GIVE A DAMM.
I found the link for the story on Stormfront. One thing I have always said about Stormfront is that it is the cream of the crop when it comes to White Nationalist men. I do think they care about women and that is why they posted the link to the article. They don’t want to see women raped and know that it is a problem in our world today. After all, many White Nationalist men are fathers and don’t want to see their little girls raped by Muslim men.
Progressives don’t want to see their little girls raped either, so why is it that we as the WEST can’t join together as human beings and FIGHT against this outrage? Why isn’t RAPE an issue that all people regardless of political view work together for the betterment of the world?
I think the answwer is because of FEAR. Both sides are afraid to speak up and tell the TRUTH. They don’t want to offend the MUSLIM WORLD!!!!!!!!!!
Heaven help us if we as the WESTERN WORLD found the moral courage to FIGHT!!!! My ancestors were knights. They fought in the crusades and we their decendents lack the courage to stand up and fight for our women. They would have fought against those who would rape women. They would have fought for our honor. Yet, today women are told that they must be silent regarding the rape, being held in slavery or anyother injustice we must endure. It doesn’t matter what happens to us, because help is not going to come. Most of us received that message loud and clear. Why do you think so many women today suffer PTSD? There are a lot of us walking wounded.
I find it very hard to respect men when they seem to lack the moral courage to do the right thing. I am an old fashion Catholic woman who believes in the old school way of doing things. I like being a woman and don’t want to be a man. If I meet the right guy, who like my grandfather won the heart of my grandmother; then I will love, honor and obey him all the days of my life. I am to strong willed, I need at least one person on this earth that I obey and who can reign me in. So I am not a feminazi who enjoys attacking man.
Yet, I feel as a woman, I must speak the truth with the hope that our men will find the strength to ACT. Please find the courage to do the right thing and not just continue to roll over and let ISLAM continue to gain the power and bringing us closer and closer to living under Muslim LAW. The UK, France, Germany, and the United States are all seeing our Laws being restricted because it offends Muslims.
I am not saying all Muslims are guilty of this criminal behavior, because that would be wrong too. Yet, it is a problem that must be dealt with. Why is it ok to attack the Catholic church for the behavior of a few priests but one must be silent over the rape of women by Islam men? Is it because one must not speak out against Muslim?
We are just women after all so our worth isn’t as much as men, so who cares if women are held in sexual slavery against their will. We know from day one that our lives are not as valued as men because some of us are taught that from birth and others of us are brainwashed to believe it.
I still get back to the question of what is the difference between Progressive men and White Nationalist men?
Both seem to lack the courage to fight against enemies who want to destroy us and our way of life in the WEST.
Islam is allowed to come into our nations and change our own national laws and cultures into muslim nations with muslim culture.
Both sides have joined the attack and have jumped into the hate Israel boat and no matter what Israel does is going to be condemned as evil when they are just trying to defend themselves. Israel is not perfect, but Israel is a nation who is trying to survive.
I am pro Israel. I am not ashamed to be pro Israel. Jews are not the enemy that has to be destroyed as Muslims and White Nationalists believe and work toward. Jews are human beings who worship a God who we Christians worship too. Jesus was a Jew. The Jewish religion has many wonderful traditions and teachings. Israel has a right to live in peace there in the Middle East. Progressives and White Nationalists alike need to stop playing into the Muslim’s hand of HATING Israel and Jews.
I don’t think things are going to change in the short term. Political views and parties have become more important then what is best for the nation. Everyone is encouraged to only vote in terms of what is best for their own little group and not what is best as a nation. We are divided and will continue to get more divided because we have a government who thrives on the corruption and doesn’t want things to change.