October 7 Attack: Honor the Courage of the Survivors

You would expect organizations that ostensibly represent women to condemn violence against women. Yet for many such organizations, it took far too long to condemn Hamas’s sadistic, brutal violence against Israeli women on October 7, 2023 — if they did so at all. Their response, or lack thereof, is a stain on their reputations to this day, one year on.

Absent the international concern that such an attack would normally generate, Israel has fought ever since to fill the void — telling the stories of the women raped, captured, and killed by Hamas, and of the children the terrorists brutally killed, in order to show the world what happened. While women’s organizations cowered in fear of political backlash or stayed silent out of plain indifference (or worse), Israelis have ensured that these stories of survival, death, trauma, and resilience — the horror of October 7 itself — cannot be denied or ignored.

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Haley Strack

Haley Strack is a former staff writer at National Review.

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You would expect organizations that ostensibly represent women to condemn violence against women. Yet for many such organizations, it took far too long to condemn Hamas’s sadistic, brutal violence against Israeli women on October 7, 2023 — if they did so at all. Their response, or lack thereof, is a stain on their reputations to this day, one year on.

Absent the international concern that such an attack would normally generate, Israel has fought ever since to fill the void — telling the stories of the women raped, captured, and killed by Hamas, and of the children the terrorists brutally killed, in order to show the world what happened. While women’s organizations cowered in fear of political backlash or stayed silent out of plain indifference (or worse), Israelis have ensured that these stories of survival, death, trauma, and resilience — the horror of October 7 itself — cannot be denied or ignored.