Critical éducation Critique (CéC)

Yesterday October 9th, 2025, I attended a conference in Ottawa by Professor Nava Ben-Or from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former Israeli judge and prosecutor. She, along with other Israeli colleagues, has launched the Dinah Project to investigate the sexual violence perpetrated primarily against women(and also some men) by Hamas and its terrorist allies during the attack on October 7, 2023, and during the subsequent kidnapping of several women while in the hands of Palestinian militants. Professor Ben-Or explained that what she and her colleagues that the facts surrounding the “victims of conflict-related sexual violence” (CRSV) in the specific case of October 7 and the following days has generated three types of reactions: jubilation, as seen among academics in the United States and even union leaders in Canada; denial, as exemplified by the tourist-activist from the flotilla called “Gaza Barbie,” who claimed recently that female hostages were “very well treated by Hamas”; a...