Saturday, November 04, 2006
Shocking Survey Reveals 6% of Israeli Women Raped
By Cihan News Agency, Tel Aviv
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
In Israel, where President Moshe Katsav is riddled with accusations of rape and sexual assault, a new survey revealed that six percent of women are subject to rape.
A survey conducted by Tel Hai College Women’s Studies Department showed that three out of every four women were subject to sexual harassment by their neighbors, friends or husbands.
Conducted among 200 women aged 15-50 in Israel, the survey revealed the vast extent to which rape exists.
Thirty-three percent of Israeli women were subject to sexual harassment, according to the study.
Department Head Abigail Moore, who led the study, emphasized the survey had alarming implications for society.
Moore stated the results were the apparent tip of the iceberg and maintained women were subject to sexual harassment “only because they are women.”
Stating 65 percent of women, whether subject to sexual harassment or not, admit their way of dressing was provocative, Moore emphasized it could not be inferred that a woman’s “way of dressing provokes rape.”
The research showed that 61 percent of women are physically harassed and nine out of 10 women are the victims of verbal harassment.
Moore said such a similar high rate of rape could be seen in Europe.
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As-Salaamu 'alaikum,
I once read an article on Israel by the late Andrea Dworkin, an American feminist of Jewish extraction. She visited the country and talked with local feminists and found that the place was saturated with pornography, and that there even existed pornography with Holocaust themes. I was aware that rape had gone on in the occupied territory but not of this, although it should not surprise anyone.
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