On October 7, Yoni Saadon, a man at the Israeli rave festival near the Gaza border, hid from the Hamas berserkers swarming the concertgoers and engaging in a murder orgy. He pretended to be dead, pulling over him like a shield the body of a woman shot in the head, and smearing her blood on him to fool the killers. He told the Sunday Times of London that after an hour, he peeked out.
I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her. She was screaming, ‘Stop it—already I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!’ When they finished they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head.
“I kept thinking it would have been one of my daughters,” added the father of four. “Or my sister—I had bought her a ticket but last minute she couldn’t come.”
The Times story details the mass rapes Hamas terrorists committed that day as a war strategy. Israeli police found bodies of “girls whose pelvises were broken they had been raped so much.”
Handling hundreds of bodies of mutilated women who had suffered sexual violence before being killed was so emotionally devastating to Israelis that many have had to receive psychological assistance to cope with the images.
Captured Hamas fighters reportedly told Israeli interrogators that they were instructed to “dirty” or “whore” Jewish women. Dr. Dvora Baumann, who directs the sex abuse victims clinic at Hadassah hospital, told The Times “I’ve been in this field over 20 years and I have never heard such horrific things.”
Some of the festivalgoers who survived have committed suicide. Eighteen others are now confined to mental hospitals. Aside from the immense amount of evidence of Hamas’s weaponization of rape—including the terror organization’s own videos—we know that Islamist terrorists do this, based on an interpretation of Islam that regards non-Muslims as subhuman. ISIS did this to captured Yazidis. The world had no difficult condemning that particular case of barbarism. But when Muslims did it to Israeli women, the United Nations and many others have been slow to find their voices, if they have found them at all.
“What they are saying is #MeToo except if you’re a Jew,” a leading Israeli feminist told The Times.
You, reader, should think, and think hard: This could have been one of your daughters. The lesson from all this is damnably clear: that Muslims raping Jewish women is something much of the world—especially progressives—tolerate.
If you are thinking, too bad for the Jews, but I’m not Jewish, so it won’t happen to me and mine, you need to get your head out of your woke backside. In Hamburg, Germany, a judge set free eight of nine young men convicted of gang-raping a drunk German girl in a city park, back in 2020. A ninth rapist, 19, was sentenced to a youth prison, where he will serve only two years and nine months for his crime.
The rapists are all migrants. The judge, Anne Meier-Göring, noted that none of the men—all of whom were either migrants or from migrant backgrounds—had shown remorse for their crimes. Defense lawyers did not deny the acts, but said that the men should not be found guilty, because they were high on testosterone. Nahlah Saimeh, a prominent female forensic psychiatrist, testified that the men might have raped the child therapeutically, to “let out their anger and frustration relating to their migration background.”
To be clear, Dr. Saimeh does not appear to have been justifying the rapes, only trying to explain why they happened. Reading her past interviews online—such as this 2020 one with a German news outlet—the psychiatrist avoids moral judgment for the sake of understanding the mechanism through which evil manifests. She is right to insist that any of us could, under the right set of circumstances, do evil things.
Yet in this 2010 interview with a German Evangelical publication, the psychiatrist said of the criminals she has examined, “They have committed egregiously destructive actions that must be condemned as morally evil. But I don’t look evil in the eye. I’ve never seen it before.”
If Dr. Saimeh were to travel to Israel and look without flinching at the bodies of the women raped and mutilated by Hamas, I wonder if she would change her mind. Or are Western intellectuals like her so abstracted from morality that they cannot bring themselves to pass judgment on evildoers? Have they convinced themselves that radical evil can be explained away, and that we should therefore try to understand evildoers for the sake of withholding harsh judgment?
In any case, this is not the first time this has happened in Germany. On New Year’s Eve 2015-16, around 1,200 German women were sexually assaulted at celebrations by migrant males, many of whom had poured into Europe months earlier in that year’s exodus, sparked in fact by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-doors policy. Leaked official documents revealed that German authorities concluded around 2,000 migrant men from the Middle East and North Africa were to blame for the mass sexual assaults. Four hundred of those assaults happened in Hamburg.
How did German authorities respond? The Social Democratic interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia said that as regrettable as the assaults were, right-wingers noticing them and reacting negatively “is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women.”
There is a profound sickness among left-wingers about all this. And not just left-wingers: Merkel at the time noted the assaults with alarm, but said that there would be no caps placed on refugees that year. There is no limit to what atrocities the political and cultural establishments are willing to endure for the sake of preserving their illusions.
In Britain, law enforcement authorities systematically ignored or otherwise downplayed rape grooming gangs operated by Pakistani Muslims in the left-wing city of Rotherham. For over 30 years, Muslim gangs pressed underage girls—most of them white British—into sexual slavery. Authorities repeatedly declined to act on reports; subsequent investigation found that they feared being called racist. There is a straight line between that gutless attitude of UK police, and the double standard on policing seen on London’s streets during this fall’s pro-Hamas mass protests.
It has been widely observed in such cases that many male Muslim migrants to Europe regard Western women as whores who are by rights available to them for sex, whether the women want it or not. In the Netherlands and elsewhere in recent years, authorities have closed public pools when young migrant males sexually harass white European women, rather than arrest the harassers. Last year in Germany, authorities advised that after a mass brawl between Muslim migrant men at a public pool, these places are no longer safe for families. In 2021, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, after studying rape statistics in Sweden, pointed out that while rape is a fact of life in every population, migrants are vastly overrepresented among the accused.
If Europeans won’t defend themselves, their families, and their women in the face of violent sexual assaults by Muslim men, out of fear of passing judgment on non-white and non-Christian people, why should anybody be surprised by the disgusting silence of so many of them regarding the mass rape of Israeli Jewish women?
It’s not only Europe, of course. Since October 7, the United States has seen absolutely appalling pro-Hamas street demonstrations from the left, including this past weekend’s horrific mob targeting of a Jewish-owned falafel shop in Philadelphia. (“Woke Kristallnacht” some critics are accurately calling it.) Many of the same progressives who are quick to accuse men of sexual violence for simply looking the wrong way at women have been strangely silent about Hamas men gang-raping Israeli women and girls to the point of breaking their pelvises. Why?
I think we know why: the revolutionary Leninist principle of “who, whom?” That is, power is the only determining factor in judging the morality of these conflicts. As Martin Latsis, the Bolshevik in charge of the secret police in Ukraine, instructed his agents about to launch the 1918 mass murders of so-called counterrevolutionaries, “The first question you should ask him is what class he belongs to, what is his origin, education, profession. These questions should determine his fate. This is the essence of the Red Terror.”
The same principle drives today’s Left. As so many of them ignore or excuse crimes committed by sacred minorities, so too do many of them turn a blind eye to Hamas’s rapes and murders. By some curious woke moral calculus, Islamists gunmen are the Oppressed, and unarmed Jewish men, women, and children are the Oppressors. This sick standard leads people either to fall silent in the face of atrocities, or even to support things no human being should ever support.
The main reason so many young Americans have taken up the Hamas cause is surely because they have been brainwashed and demoralized by woke ideology in academia, media, and popular culture. Woke ideology means the suicide of the West. As Hirsi Ali, a Muslim apostate and recent Christian convert, warned the audience at this autumn’s ARC conference in London, Hamas is coming after Israeli Jews today, but these berserkers will eventually massacre any infidel who gets in their way.
We don’t have to wonder what Western elites and progressives will say and do if the kind of evil done on October 7 to Israeli Jewish women and girls ever comes to the West. The verdict in Hamburg tells us. The reaction to the 2015-16 New Year’s Even assaults tells us. The Rotherham results tell us. These people will bitterly cling to the Narrative until it is pried from the cold fingers attached to their raped and murdered bodies.
I spent the last week in Prague and Bratislava, interviewing anti-communists dissidents who risked their freedom to stand up to totalitarianism. I asked one, Luděk Bednář, where he and his colleagues found the courage to fight. “It was easy,” he shrugged. “If you just commit to living not by lies, everything else falls into place.”
True enough, but George Orwell taught us that seeing what it right in front of one’s nose often requires the greatest effort. What will it take to wake decent people up, and compel them to see clearly, and to take an active stand against this barbarism, an especially animalistic expression of the new Red Terror wokeness has brought us? History shows us that if the good don’t stand up and fight, the bad certainly will.
The Jews, as ever, are the canaries in the coal mine. We might not have much time left. Some are saying that a massive and harsh right-wing backlash is coming. Maybe so, and if it does, many respectable people on both the right and the left won’t like it. They will only have themselves to blame.
But watching so many Western people who ought to know better show cowardice and contempt in the face of the worst atrocities humans can commit against each other—and, in particular, that men can commit against women—raises a despairing question: What if the only thing worse than a severe right-wing backlash is no backlash at all?
October 7, Rape & the New Red Terror
Demonstrators hold posters reading “UN Women, your silence is loud” during a rally in London on December 3, 2023 to protest against the UN’s silence over rapes committed by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attacks.
On October 7, Yoni Saadon, a man at the Israeli rave festival near the Gaza border, hid from the Hamas berserkers swarming the concertgoers and engaging in a murder orgy. He pretended to be dead, pulling over him like a shield the body of a woman shot in the head, and smearing her blood on him to fool the killers. He told the Sunday Times of London that after an hour, he peeked out.
“I kept thinking it would have been one of my daughters,” added the father of four. “Or my sister—I had bought her a ticket but last minute she couldn’t come.”
The Times story details the mass rapes Hamas terrorists committed that day as a war strategy. Israeli police found bodies of “girls whose pelvises were broken they had been raped so much.”
Handling hundreds of bodies of mutilated women who had suffered sexual violence before being killed was so emotionally devastating to Israelis that many have had to receive psychological assistance to cope with the images.
Captured Hamas fighters reportedly told Israeli interrogators that they were instructed to “dirty” or “whore” Jewish women. Dr. Dvora Baumann, who directs the sex abuse victims clinic at Hadassah hospital, told The Times “I’ve been in this field over 20 years and I have never heard such horrific things.”
Some of the festivalgoers who survived have committed suicide. Eighteen others are now confined to mental hospitals. Aside from the immense amount of evidence of Hamas’s weaponization of rape—including the terror organization’s own videos—we know that Islamist terrorists do this, based on an interpretation of Islam that regards non-Muslims as subhuman. ISIS did this to captured Yazidis. The world had no difficult condemning that particular case of barbarism. But when Muslims did it to Israeli women, the United Nations and many others have been slow to find their voices, if they have found them at all.
“What they are saying is #MeToo except if you’re a Jew,” a leading Israeli feminist told The Times.
You, reader, should think, and think hard: This could have been one of your daughters. The lesson from all this is damnably clear: that Muslims raping Jewish women is something much of the world—especially progressives—tolerate.
If you are thinking, too bad for the Jews, but I’m not Jewish, so it won’t happen to me and mine, you need to get your head out of your woke backside. In Hamburg, Germany, a judge set free eight of nine young men convicted of gang-raping a drunk German girl in a city park, back in 2020. A ninth rapist, 19, was sentenced to a youth prison, where he will serve only two years and nine months for his crime.
The rapists are all migrants. The judge, Anne Meier-Göring, noted that none of the men—all of whom were either migrants or from migrant backgrounds—had shown remorse for their crimes. Defense lawyers did not deny the acts, but said that the men should not be found guilty, because they were high on testosterone. Nahlah Saimeh, a prominent female forensic psychiatrist, testified that the men might have raped the child therapeutically, to “let out their anger and frustration relating to their migration background.”
To be clear, Dr. Saimeh does not appear to have been justifying the rapes, only trying to explain why they happened. Reading her past interviews online—such as this 2020 one with a German news outlet—the psychiatrist avoids moral judgment for the sake of understanding the mechanism through which evil manifests. She is right to insist that any of us could, under the right set of circumstances, do evil things.
Yet in this 2010 interview with a German Evangelical publication, the psychiatrist said of the criminals she has examined, “They have committed egregiously destructive actions that must be condemned as morally evil. But I don’t look evil in the eye. I’ve never seen it before.”
If Dr. Saimeh were to travel to Israel and look without flinching at the bodies of the women raped and mutilated by Hamas, I wonder if she would change her mind. Or are Western intellectuals like her so abstracted from morality that they cannot bring themselves to pass judgment on evildoers? Have they convinced themselves that radical evil can be explained away, and that we should therefore try to understand evildoers for the sake of withholding harsh judgment?
In any case, this is not the first time this has happened in Germany. On New Year’s Eve 2015-16, around 1,200 German women were sexually assaulted at celebrations by migrant males, many of whom had poured into Europe months earlier in that year’s exodus, sparked in fact by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-doors policy. Leaked official documents revealed that German authorities concluded around 2,000 migrant men from the Middle East and North Africa were to blame for the mass sexual assaults. Four hundred of those assaults happened in Hamburg.
How did German authorities respond? The Social Democratic interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia said that as regrettable as the assaults were, right-wingers noticing them and reacting negatively “is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women.”
There is a profound sickness among left-wingers about all this. And not just left-wingers: Merkel at the time noted the assaults with alarm, but said that there would be no caps placed on refugees that year. There is no limit to what atrocities the political and cultural establishments are willing to endure for the sake of preserving their illusions.
In Britain, law enforcement authorities systematically ignored or otherwise downplayed rape grooming gangs operated by Pakistani Muslims in the left-wing city of Rotherham. For over 30 years, Muslim gangs pressed underage girls—most of them white British—into sexual slavery. Authorities repeatedly declined to act on reports; subsequent investigation found that they feared being called racist. There is a straight line between that gutless attitude of UK police, and the double standard on policing seen on London’s streets during this fall’s pro-Hamas mass protests.
It has been widely observed in such cases that many male Muslim migrants to Europe regard Western women as whores who are by rights available to them for sex, whether the women want it or not. In the Netherlands and elsewhere in recent years, authorities have closed public pools when young migrant males sexually harass white European women, rather than arrest the harassers. Last year in Germany, authorities advised that after a mass brawl between Muslim migrant men at a public pool, these places are no longer safe for families. In 2021, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, after studying rape statistics in Sweden, pointed out that while rape is a fact of life in every population, migrants are vastly overrepresented among the accused.
If Europeans won’t defend themselves, their families, and their women in the face of violent sexual assaults by Muslim men, out of fear of passing judgment on non-white and non-Christian people, why should anybody be surprised by the disgusting silence of so many of them regarding the mass rape of Israeli Jewish women?
It’s not only Europe, of course. Since October 7, the United States has seen absolutely appalling pro-Hamas street demonstrations from the left, including this past weekend’s horrific mob targeting of a Jewish-owned falafel shop in Philadelphia. (“Woke Kristallnacht” some critics are accurately calling it.) Many of the same progressives who are quick to accuse men of sexual violence for simply looking the wrong way at women have been strangely silent about Hamas men gang-raping Israeli women and girls to the point of breaking their pelvises. Why?
I think we know why: the revolutionary Leninist principle of “who, whom?” That is, power is the only determining factor in judging the morality of these conflicts. As Martin Latsis, the Bolshevik in charge of the secret police in Ukraine, instructed his agents about to launch the 1918 mass murders of so-called counterrevolutionaries, “The first question you should ask him is what class he belongs to, what is his origin, education, profession. These questions should determine his fate. This is the essence of the Red Terror.”
The same principle drives today’s Left. As so many of them ignore or excuse crimes committed by sacred minorities, so too do many of them turn a blind eye to Hamas’s rapes and murders. By some curious woke moral calculus, Islamists gunmen are the Oppressed, and unarmed Jewish men, women, and children are the Oppressors. This sick standard leads people either to fall silent in the face of atrocities, or even to support things no human being should ever support.
The main reason so many young Americans have taken up the Hamas cause is surely because they have been brainwashed and demoralized by woke ideology in academia, media, and popular culture. Woke ideology means the suicide of the West. As Hirsi Ali, a Muslim apostate and recent Christian convert, warned the audience at this autumn’s ARC conference in London, Hamas is coming after Israeli Jews today, but these berserkers will eventually massacre any infidel who gets in their way.
We don’t have to wonder what Western elites and progressives will say and do if the kind of evil done on October 7 to Israeli Jewish women and girls ever comes to the West. The verdict in Hamburg tells us. The reaction to the 2015-16 New Year’s Even assaults tells us. The Rotherham results tell us. These people will bitterly cling to the Narrative until it is pried from the cold fingers attached to their raped and murdered bodies.
I spent the last week in Prague and Bratislava, interviewing anti-communists dissidents who risked their freedom to stand up to totalitarianism. I asked one, Luděk Bednář, where he and his colleagues found the courage to fight. “It was easy,” he shrugged. “If you just commit to living not by lies, everything else falls into place.”
True enough, but George Orwell taught us that seeing what it right in front of one’s nose often requires the greatest effort. What will it take to wake decent people up, and compel them to see clearly, and to take an active stand against this barbarism, an especially animalistic expression of the new Red Terror wokeness has brought us? History shows us that if the good don’t stand up and fight, the bad certainly will.
The Jews, as ever, are the canaries in the coal mine. We might not have much time left. Some are saying that a massive and harsh right-wing backlash is coming. Maybe so, and if it does, many respectable people on both the right and the left won’t like it. They will only have themselves to blame.
But watching so many Western people who ought to know better show cowardice and contempt in the face of the worst atrocities humans can commit against each other—and, in particular, that men can commit against women—raises a despairing question: What if the only thing worse than a severe right-wing backlash is no backlash at all?
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