3/ (Close eyes and ears. Condemn first the Resistance...)

Since October 2023, over 60 Palestinian shepherding communities in the West Bank have been displaced, with at least 14 new outposts built on or near their ruins. One violently expelled community — Wadi Al-Siq — faced abuse that included sexual assault, leading to the disbandment of the Israeli army’s “Desert Frontier” unit.

#sexualabuse #sexualassault #BlindEyes #collectivesilence
#IsraelTerroristState #terrorism #occupation #SettlerViolence #SettlerColonialism #colonialism

As +972 reported in August 2023, most of the communities in the territory between Ramallah and Jericho, an area of 150,000 dunams, were forced to flee during the previous months as settlers began rapidly constructing herding outposts and violently descending on residents, all with the backing of the Israeli army and state institutions. Now, only two Palestinian communities — M’arajat and Ras Al-Auja — remain in the entire southern Jordan Valley.
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-settlers-outpost-maghayer-al-dir/

"Christians are the true voice of Jews. In each case, marginalized people are seen as unable to speak for themselves; their voices are only valuable if they cosign or echo those who are not marginalized. Jews, sexual assault survivors, trans people, are not entitled to speak for themselves; they must fall silent before their betters. This is, in fact, a major part of what being marginalized means."

#trans #SexualAbuse #Jews #marginalization #media
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As Charles Pierce notes, a cloud hangs over the new papacy due to Prevost's actions in shielding a sexual abuser of minors in the past:

"Those clouds never will part. Leo XIV will have to live with them over his head for the rest of his life. So will the church he now leads."

Survivors of sexual abuse by pastoral authority figures are already — and rightly so — speaking out about this. They won't and shouldn't stop doing so.

#LeoXIV #Vatican #SexualAbuse
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64718265/new-pope-robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv/

"The world sees an ancient rite and is led to believe that it is fine and dandy to exclude women and out gay men from leadership, and to perpetuate a system in which sexual predators are granted positions of power and access. I invite fair-minded observers to watch the proceedings through the eyes of progressive Catholic women, LGBTQIA+ Catholics, and survivors of clergy sexual abusers."

#PopeFrancis #Catholic #women #LGBTQ #equality #SexualAbuse
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@tagesschau

Sexualisierte Gewalt traumatisiert Menschen für ihr gesamtes Leben. Gewaltüberlebende können nur versuchen es auf eine Weise in ihr Leben zu integrieren, dass sie nicht gänzlich zerbrechen. In viel zu vielen Fällen gelingt es Betroffenen nicht.

"When white smoke emerges from the Sistine Chapel, the new pontiff will have no credibility with survivors if he has a history of having enabled sexual abuse by concealing it from the public and allowing perpetrators to remain in ministry in any capacity."

~ Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP)

#PopeFrancis #SexualAbuse #AbuseSurvivors
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https://www.snapnetwork.org/pope_francis_dies_survivors_mourn_the_tragedy_of_francis_papacy

@randahl #trump argumentiert in der #ukraine frage wie Männer bei #sexualabuse …
#krieg

#Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western #Media

Women are routinely sexually abused during home invasions by the Israeli military. They’re forced to disrobe – sometimes in front of their male relatives – and adopt humiliating poses for the soldiers to film them, Khraim said. During some #WestBank home invasions, the other advocate testified, Israeli soldiers touched Palestinian women sexually and threatened them with rape, all while their male relatives were handcuffed. The soldiers “make sexual noises and gestures, threaten to rape [the woman] even, doing this in front of [her male relatives] while they're being handcuffed or blindfolded, not able to stop it, not able to protect [their] daughter, sister, whatever it may be. It's a form to not only control the woman, but also control the men as well, and break up the family and, in turn, break up society as a whole.”

“Rape was mainly done by Israeli female officers inserting objects inside genitals” of the detained, Khraim testified. The female Israeli soldiers raped both men and women, photographing and often filming the assaults.
https://zeteo.com/p/palestinian-women-raped-by-israeli
via @banned_tweets_of_john_cusack
#gaza #genocide #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #sexualabuse #sexualviolence #Palestine @palestine @israel

Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has been on trial in the western city of Vannes since early March, in one of the country's largest child sex abuse cases. He is charged with assaulting or raping the patients, many while under anaesthesia or waking up after operations, at a dozen hospitals between 1989 and 2014.
#SexualAbuse #ViolenceAgainstWomen #rape
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250320-%F0%9F%94%B4-french-ex-surgeon-le-scouarnec-on-trial-for-sex-abuse-admits-guilt-for-all-299-victims-lawyer
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