The NY Post Says What We’re All Thinking: Where Are Women’s Groups on Hamas Rapes?

“The deafening, disgusting silence of women’s groups on Hamas rapes continues,” fumed Mark Penn and Andrew Stein for the NYP yesterday.

Protestors brandish a sign blaming Israelis for the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel in which Hamas used rape as a weapon of war. New York City, NY. November 11, 2023. (Photo: Pamela Drew)

“The deafening, disgusting silence of women’s groups on Hamas rapes continues,” seethed Mark Penn and Andrew Stein for the New York Post on January 9, 2024.

“The silence from so-called women’s groups on the atrocities committed against women in Israel Oct. 7 is deafening,” began the duo. “Three months later, few if any have given a full-throated condemnation of what Hamas did despite the clear evidence its shocking crimes were deliberate and widespread.”

Mark Penn, a former longtime advisor to the Clintons, and Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president, are both Democrats. And they aren’t the only ones demanding answers as to why women’s rights organizations like Emily’s List — and so many others — are so strangely silent on the subject of Hamas rapes.

“The silence from respected Western media outlets on the subject — as from the bastions of academia, international human rights organizations, and erstwhile #MeToo activists — is heartbreaking in its callousness and inhumanity,” we wrote in these very pages not long ago. “It is also deafening.”