Rita Panahi: Hypocritical feminists stay silent about mass rapes of Israeli women

It has been clear for some time but to deny the suffering inflicted on women for the ‘crime’ of being Israeli proves the modern feminist movement cares little about women.

A "#metoo unless you are a Jew" protest outside UN headquarters in New York. Picture: Charly Triballeau

The modern feminist movement cares little about women. That much has been clear for some time from siding with trans activists over females fighting to protect sex-based rights and spaces to the sisterhood’s total abandonment of women living under Islam.

Instead of focusing on what is in the best interests of women, modern feminism has become a political movement that merely uses women to advance a relentlessly Leftist agenda.

Issues of great importance are ignored if politically inconvenient while trivial issues are inflated and inflamed.

Clementine Ford berated women who feel betrayed by feminists. Picture: Chelsea Heaney

We saw that when feminists criticised ex-PM Tony Abbott’s pro-women paid parental leave proposal and then hyperventilated over his supposed “misogyny” because he looked at his watch and there was that time he winked during a radio interview.

But even I, who has long called out the hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty of these pretenders, have been shocked by the callousness with which so many feminists, and their male allies, are treating the events of October 7, namely the mass rape, torture and slaughter of Israeli women.

Jewish women and supporters protest at UN to highlight the brutal October 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas. Picture: Charly Triballeau

Some like Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam have remained silent about Hamas Islamists’ barbaric acts against women and girls including sexual violence too horrific to describe on these pages.

Then there are those who seek to rationalise, minimise or even deny the suffering inflicted on females for the ‘crime’ of being Israeli. The same feminists who see ‘rape culture’ everywhere ignore it where is actually exists just like they ignored the rape culture behind the Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal. They ignore mass suffering because in their warped worldview the perpetrators are the oppressed, and the victims are the oppressors.

Greens leader Samantha Ratnam at a Pro Palestine Rally in Melbourne. Picture: David Crosling

Clementine Ford, who has a Nova podcast, berated women who feel betrayed by feminists like her, accusing them of being colonisers who pretend they’re not white.

“I don’t care that you felt betrayed or let down,” she wrote.

“You’re pathetic, you disgust me … you are not the victims, especially not when you live in Australia and are globbing on to some kind of bizarre pretence that you are being harmed here!”

Clearly, the ‘believe all women’ mantra does not apply to Zionists, and for the record I am a Zionist as is every person who believes in an independent Jewish state and supports the continued existence of Israel.

Rita Panahi is a Herald Sun columnist