Sexual violence by Hamas on October 7th — why women’s groups are being unfairly criticized.

Barbara Bedont
6 min readJan 21, 2024
Scene from “Ladri di biciclette”: Bruno watches as his father is “tried” of stealing a bicycle.

On July 17th, 1998, I was in the observation gallery at a Diplomatic Conference in Rome watching the final vote by state delegates. The results were overwhelming: 120 countries voted in favor of establishing the International Criminal Court. Voting against it were seven countries: the US, China, Libya, Iraq, Qatar, Yemen, and Israel…

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Barbara Bedont

Professional trouble-maker: lawyer (not the kind that makes lots of money), activist, writer. I write about current events from a gender and class perspective.