The Jewish lesbian feminist writer Muriel Rukeyser once asked, “What would happen if a woman told the truth about her life?” Her answer, “The world would split apart.”  Buckle up. We’re in for some uncomfortable truth-telling.

Like many of you I am deeply and viscerally upset by the contents of the recent official Israeli government report of the rapes and sexual abuse committed by Hamas in the attacks of October 7th. I have been following the news avidly ever since those attacks, and since the Dinah Commission first released its findings. The reports of feminist and leftist human rights groups and the UN dismissing and denying the evidence of one of the most heinous pogroms against Jewish people tells us where we and they really stand.

Sadly, many Israeli government IDF and intelligence officials who dismissed the reports of female IDF border guards warning of increased Hamas training activities in close proximity to Gaza border communities and kibbutzim just before October 7th have quietly retired from service and left the scene. They will not likely be held accountable. The Israeli government continues to postpone a full accounting of the failures leading to the October 7th attacks on political or national security grounds etc. Their corruption is notorious. They have now dissolved the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) pending elections in the fall.

Like many Jewish women, I am furious. Our menfolk were unable to protect us from the massacres and sexual tortures of October 7th and thereafter. Our menfolk have rarely been able to protect Jewish women adequately, in Israel and in the Diaspora.  Jewish history and Holocaust history are replete with evidence of pogroms and attacks including the most heinous sexual violence against Jewish women and children. We are at risk. Our male led Jewish........

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