Feminist leaders, Democrats are radio silent on the rape, torture of Jewish women

It’s been my experience that most professional women, including those who work on Wall Street, consider themselves feminists and staunch Democrats for several reasons. Abortion is one; the party’s long-standing commitment to gender equality is also high on the list.

Times may be changing, I suspect. Last week I did a series of interviews with women who work in finance and run businesses about our increasingly bizarre political climate. Here’s what was top of mind. They can’t understand the relative silence or muted forms of condemnation displayed by those they had long admired — major leaders of the feminist movement and far too many top Democrats — on something so obviously heinous and toxic that it deserves immediate and emphatic denunciation: the rape, torture and murder of Jewish women.

These possibly soon-to-be lapsing feminists say the silence is so deafening among people they once considered comrades in arms that while they may not be ready to pull the lever for Donald Trump 2024,  they’re getting suddenly close.

The true brutality of the Oct. 7 massacre of Jewish women, men and children by Hamas goons has been largely muted in the mainstream media. If you want to be disgusted and horrified by the reality of the slaughter — including the rapes of the living and dead — it’s easy to find on social media.

I’ve been talking with professional women who went there. They have simple and obvious questions: Why aren’t more leading Democrats telling the world that rape is never OK, even when it’s committed by thugs its progressive wing deems oppressed? And where are people like Michelle Obama, Gloria Steinem and other leading feminists, strongly decrying one of the most heinous crimes against women in modern history?

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