Rape during the Rwanda genocide? Outrageous. Rape during the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia? Abhorrent. Rape by Hamas terrorists? Not worthy of comment.
That’s the troubling position taken by Samantha Power, a senior official in the Obama and Biden administrations who has built her career on her concern for victims of genocide, sexual atrocities, and other human rights abuses.
Power’s X (Twitter) feed since the October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel has included dozens of posts about the suffering of Arab civilians in Gaza. [But] she has never tweeted about the numerous Israeli Jewish women who were raped by Hamas terrorists.
She is typical of the painfully slow, in some cases non-existent, response of the human rights community on this issue. To this day, Amnesty still has not issued any statement about the Hamas rapes.