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Posted on 12/28/2023 12:51:31 PM PST by Freeleesy
A University of Minnesota associate professor who has denied that Hamas-led terrorists committed rape and sexual violence during their devastating onslaught on October 7 in Israel is a candidate for a senior position at the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department, according to a Friday report.
Sima Shakhsari, who works at the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, said she had not seen evidence of Israeli victims of rape and sexual violence while testifying last Thursday to the university review panel, part of the application process for the associate dean role at the office, Jewish Insider said.
“Of course, any person who has been raped — I am a rape crisis counselor, I believe the survivors. I am yet to see Israeli rape survivors of Hamas come and speak,” Shakhsari said.
The Palestinian terrorists’ widespread sexual assault during October 7 and their use of rape as a weapon of war have been widely documented amid a mounting body of evidence.
Investigators have begun building several sexual assault cases against terrorists who rampaged through communities in southern Israel on October 7, citing eyewitnesses, video evidence, testimony from captured terrorists, and photographs of victims’ bodies that all point toward systemic sexual violence.
It is believed that some female and male hostages among the 240 people taken by terrorists on October 7 and who have since been released were raped while in captivity.
Shakhsari argued during her application review that it was racist to claim the Palestinian terrorists committed the acts, comparing it to false accusations of rape against men of color in the United States.
“We know the history of lynching, of black man, lynching, of indigenous man lynching Latinos in this country… because of accusations and they’re kind of violating the innocence of white women, right? And I think that is also this force that is repeated in the context of Israel and Palestine, because Arab men have been demonized and have been marked as monstrous people who are rapists and for violence.”
Shakhsari is associated with radical pro-Palestinian groups on campus, such as Students for Justice in Palestine, and has been seen at recent protests chanting “Globalize the Intifada.” Palestinian terror attacks during the Second Intifada, two decades ago, killed an estimated 1,000 Israelis, and the chant is therefore viewed by some as a call to violence against Jews across the world….
SJP and pro terror link
Minnesota. What do you expect?
She is firmly against rape except for Jewish women.
Sick idiot. Men are convicted of rape+murder all the time without any survivor "speaking". In this case there is video evidence, forensic evidence, eye witness evidence, DNA evidence, defensive wounds, broken bones - you name it. Everything you need to convict a person of rape and murder without testimony from the victim.
SJP = BAD collective.
DEI: “Death Entertains Islamists”
“A University of Minnesota associate professor who has denied that Hamas-led terrorists committed rape and sexual violence during their devastating onslaught on October 7 in Israel is a candidate for a senior position at the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department,”
That would be like appointing Jeffrey Dahmer to generate the menu for the next White House banquet.
The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party was for years a collection of morons. But they weren’t feral. My, how times have changed. I wonder, does anyone outside the state take a vacation there?
Jew hating bigots rule academia...he should fit in nicely.
And again...the solution for this nonsense is simply to defund these institutions.
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