The default response to the Oct 7 rapes/atrocities/massacre from women’s organisations, and from representatives like Reem Alsalem, tasked with fighting male violence against women, was not what I’d expected – an outpouring of outrage at the perpetrators and sympathy for victims and survivors.
Instead, many ignored the attack altogether, some denied or justified it, and some responded with triumphant glee at the comeuppance of the “colonial-oppressors”.