Blame the women
Joan Smith on yet another protest against women talking:
Students at the London School of Economics (LSE) have tried to cancel a private meeting to discuss sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7 attacks of 2023. The event went ahead last night with a heavy police presence as pro-Palestinian protesters chanted anti-Israel slogans outside the building. Inside, an Israeli lawyer spoke about the problem of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in several countries where women have been targeted by mass rape and other kinds of sexual assault.
Notably, one of the organisations calling for the meeting to be cancelled was a feminist society at the university. In an “open letter to LSE management”, they demanded that the “egregious” event shouldn’t be allowed to go ahead, claiming that it ignored “concerns expressed by experts and LSE staff”.
If that’s the feminist society, one shudders to think what the other societies are like.
When it became clear that the meeting would take place as scheduled, an “emergency rally” was planned outside the venue. “Zionists off our campus,” a flyer proclaimed. “No platform for genocide apologists”. This is not a one-off: women with legitimate and long-standing concerns about sexual violence are suddenly finding themselves labelled as supporting “genocide” for demanding justice for victims who happen to be Israeli.
It’s always women’s fault in one way or another.
The thing the pro-Palestine idiots don’t get is how this contributes to creating the ideal conditions for a genocide.
Look at it from the Israeli perspective, practice some of that empathy that these activists love to yammer on about without ever once in their lives exhibiting.
I mean, these are the same types who think death and rape threats will somehow magically make people think trans women aren’t a potential problem in prisons, women’s shelters or toilets. “Accept us into your places of safety or we’ll beat you up” isn’t the sales pitch they seem to think it is.
Anyway, you are told that your country is committing genocide, by the same people who initially celebrated an act of mass rape against your country. When that turned out to be less popular than they expected, they turned to denying the rape happened. When that didn’t work, they started protesting anyone talking about the rape.
These same people targeted Jews who don’t live in or even particularly support Israel for harassment, blocking Jewish students from going to classes. They include professors who went to tell the US’ congress that calls for genocide against you aren’t necessarily hate speech.
Understand, UNRWA was part of this, UN workers took part in the attack, the UN taught Hamas propaganda in Gaza, the UN dithered on admitting the attack was a war crime. The UN is infested with the same types of people.
Do you believe the people telling you your country is committing genocide? On an emotional level, do you believe that the pro-Palestinian side is a reliable source of that sort of information? And if you don’t believe that, what information sources do you really have to know if a genocide is happening?
My sympathies lie far more heavily with Gazans than with Israelis, and I consider Israeli leadership responsible for far greater carnage than can be laid at the feet of Hamas, but these fools go much further in their defence. All claims made by Israelis are dismissed as lies, citing various claims made by Israel that were indeed lies, ignoring that these claims have been corroborated by media unconnected to Israel.
And regardless of other considerations, brigading women who gather to discuss the problem of rape in conflict kinda makes it look like you are pro rape.
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