Argumentative Penguin
1 min readJan 9, 2024

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I think the point the OP was making is that in almost all other feminist circles and discussions the party line is 'believe all women' - not 'where's your credible evidence?'. This is a disconnect, either you believe all women or you demand evidence, you cannot select which women have to provide evidence. Well... you can, but such a position is either a) non-feminist or b) anti-semitic.

With regards publishing testimonies, these things take time. In these cases I always suggest reading places like Fact Check https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/what-we-know-about-three-widespread-israel-hamas-war-claims/

Update, Jan. 3: The New York Times conducted a two-month investigation into the sexual violence that occurred during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The investigation, the results of which were published on Dec. 28, included interviews with more than 150 people and the review of video footage, photos and GPS data from cellphones. The Times reported that “the attacks against women were not isolated events but part of a broader pattern of gender-based violence on Oct. 7,” and the paper’s investigation “identified at least seven locations where Israeli women and girls appear to have been sexually assaulted or mutilated.”

The published investigation can be found here. https://web.archive.org/web/20240101080545/https:/www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html

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