Arabs Harass Female 'Peace' Activists; Left Silences Victims
by Gil Ronen
Published: 09/21/10, 7:43 PM / Last Update: 09/21/10, 7:47 PM
Arutz Sheva Israel National News
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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.
<<<SNIP>>> 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.
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While no one should be raped or otherwise assaulted, it is hard for me to have sympathy for these people.
by Gil Ronen
Published: 09/21/10, 7:43 PM / Last Update: 09/21/10, 7:47 PM
Arutz Sheva Israel National News
EXCERPT:
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.
<<<SNIP>>> 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.
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While no one should be raped or otherwise assaulted, it is hard for me to have sympathy for these people.
