Pramila Jayapal
Updated 2024-01-06
2023-12-13 Hamas survivor refutes progressives downplaying terrorists’ sexual violence Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., was torched after she clashed with CNN’s Dana Bash over the lack of widespread condemnation of Hamas’ use of sexual violence against Israeli women during the Oct. 7 attacks. The Washington state Democrat suggested that wasn’t true, and claimed she had already condemned Hamas’ treatment of women, before quickly turning the conversation back to Israel.
“But I think we have to remember Israel is a democracy. That is why they’re a strong ally of ours. And if they do not comply with international humanitarian law, they are bringing themselves to a place that makes it much more difficult strategically for them to be able to build allies, to keep public opinion with them, and frankly, morally, we cannot say that one war crime deserves another. That is not what international humanitarian law says,” Jayapal said. “We have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians. Fifteen thousand Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, three-quarters of whom are women and children.” “And it’s horrible,” Bash said. “But you don’t see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women.” “I don’t want this to be the hierarchies of oppressions,” Jayapal said. [MEK Note: Apparently Diana Bash has never talked to Palestinian women held as prisoners by Israel.] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hamas-survivor-refutes-progressives-downplaying-terrorists-sexual-violence/ar-AA1lsduZ
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