Tom Gross frequently puts out newsletters full of article and videos about the Hamas/Israel war, a newsletter not available to the public. I do, however, have permission to reproduce it here. Below I’ve taken a lot of his latest summary and indicated what I’ve used, indenting Gross’s words. Then I added a few more recent articles on the sexual violence used by Hamas on October 7.
This is a particularly important series of articles and videos because Western feminists (and UN Women itself) have deliberately ignored the hideious sexual violence practiced on Israeli and foreign women on October 7. This silence (and of course the violence that was ignored by feminists) is really something to get agry about.
Gross’s original article and link is below, but I believe the Sunday Times piece been retitled online as “The Hamas fighters were raping her. She begged them for death.”
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Although what you see below is undoubtedly paywalled (click on it), judicious inquiry may yield you a full copy. Tom Gross’s email has the whole text, but you can’t see it.
Here’s an extract I’ve chosen:
After an hour, he peeked out. “I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her. She was screaming, ‘Stop it — already I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!’
When they finished they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head.
. . . . “Opening the body bags was scary as we didn’t know what we would see. They were all young women. Most in little clothing or shredded clothing and their bodies bloodied particularly round their underwear and some women shot many times in the face as if to mutilate them.
“Their faces were in anguish and often their fingers clenched as they died. We saw women whose pelvises were broken. Legs broken. There were women who had been shot in the crotch, in the breasts … there seems no doubt what happened to them.”
Her team had to wait while doctors, dentists and DNA experts worked to identify the bodies before they could then gently put them in white linen burial shrouds. “We are just normal women not doctors, we never expected to see such horrors,” she said. Yet what really made them cry was the occasional flash of colour. “Some bodies we took out had pretty pink or bright purple nails — and we would all pause and at that point many of us broke down.”
Now, back to Tom’s links, these ones to videos. I’ve replaced the YouTube links with the videos themselves:
Sasha Ariev talks about her sweet teenage sister Karina, 19, kidnapped alone by Hamas, still a hostage:
Horrifying: Eyewitness account of Hamas gang rape, cutting off breast of Jewish woman on Oct 7, 2023
AMONG PREVIOUS VIDEOS:
JewsToo. Jewish women in LA show what is happening to Israeli Jews
Western feminists supporting Hamas should watch this 9-second clip from Hamas’ own recordings
Sheryl Sandberg has emerged as one of the most vociferous critics of feminists (actually, everyone) who remained silent in the face of Hamas’s violence. One example of her eloquence is below:
Sheryl Sandberg: Why are the women’s organizations and UN ignoring Israelis who were raped, murdered?
Click on all the headlines to go to the links (these were chosen by me, not Tom Gross):
About time the NYT highlighted this! A quote from the above:
On Monday, some 800 people, including women’s activists and diplomats representing about 40 countries, crowded into a chamber at U.N. headquarters in New York for a presentation laying out the evidence of large-scale sexual violence, with testimony from witnesses like Ms. Mendes and Mr. Greinman.
“Silence is complicity,” Sheryl Sandberg, the former Meta executive, told those assembled. She, along with Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, was among the event’s primary organizers. “On Oct. 7, Hamas brutally murdered 1,200 souls and in some cases, they first raped their victims,” Ms. Sandberg added. “We know this from eyewitnesses, we know this from combat paramedics, we would know this from some victims if more had been allowed to live.”
Hamas has denied that its fighters committed sex crimes, which it said would violate Islamic principles.
But ample evidence has been collected, like the bodies of women found partially or fully naked, women with their pelvic bones broken, the accounts of medical examiners and first responders, videos taken by Hamas fighters themselves, and even a few firsthand witnesses like a woman, in a video made public last month by police officials, who said she had watched Hamas terrorists take turns raping a young woman they had captured at a music festival, mutilate her and then shoot her in the head.
Biden waited too long, too, but at least he said something:
President Biden on Tuesday condemned the “unimaginable cruelty” of Hamas attackers who raped and mutilated women in Israel on Oct. 7, and he blamed the group’s refusal to release its remaining female hostages for the breakdown in cease-fire talks.
Speaking at a fund-raising event in Boston, Mr. Biden cited reports that Hamas fighters “used rape to terrorize women and girls” on Oct. 7, as they swept through Israeli towns and a music festival in the southern part of the country, killing more than 1,200 people, according to Israeli authorities.
“Over the past few weeks, survivors and witnesses of the attacks have shared the horrific accounts of unimaginable cruelty,” Mr. Biden told donors at the event at a Westin hotel. “Reports of women raped — repeatedly raped — and their bodies being mutilated while still alive — of women corpses being desecrated, Hamas terrorists inflicting as much pain and suffering on women and girls as possible and then murdering them.”
He added: “It is appalling.”
Bret Stephens, who doesn’t adhere to the NYT’s love of Palestine and hatred of Israel, is a sensible voice on the Hamas/Israel war (my opinion ,of course):
An excerpt (Jayapal’s weaselly words are in a video below):
On Sunday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Representative Pramila Jayapal why so many progressive women have been silent about the extensive reports of widespread rape and sexual assault carried out by Hamas against Israeli women during the massacres of Oct. 7.
What followed was a master class in evasion, both-sidesism and changing the subject from the chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
“I’ve condemned what Hamas has done,” Jayapal allowed, briefly, before moving immediately to condemn Israel. Bash persisted: “I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I’m asking about Hamas.”
“I’ve already answered your question, Dana,” Jayapal replied, adding that while rape was “horrific,” it “happens in war situations. Terrorist organizations like Hamas obviously are using these as tools. However, I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians.”
. . . it took U.N. Women, the agency that has that mandate to look out for women’s rights globally, eight weeks before issuing a perfunctory statement saying it was “alarmed” by accounts of gender-based atrocities during the attacks of Oct. 7.
As for other so-called human-rights organizations, the website of Human Rights Watch — which includes a page ostensibly devoted to women’s rights — has dozens of news releases about the war in Gaza. Not a word about the rapes. From Amnesty International: nothing that can be found on its website. The National Organization for Women denounced the Oct. 7 attacks on the day they occurred and last week issued a news release condemning “rape as a weapon of war.” But it contained no mention of Hamas.
Why not?
In a remarkable floor speech last week, Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, spoke of “the sting of the double standard,” which, he said, “is at the root of antisemitism.” He also recalled a talk he heard in college by Abba Eban, then Israel’s foreign minister, who confronted left-wing hecklers at an event at Harvard.
“We have lived with the double standard throughout the centuries,” Eban told the protesters, Schumer said. “There are always things the Jews couldn’t do. Everyone could be a farmer but not the Jew, everyone could be a carpenter but not the Jew, everyone could move to Moscow but not the Jew, and everyone could have their own state, but not the Jew.”
To which one can today add: Every victim of sexual violence should be heard; no condemnation of rape should ever come with qualifiers; “Silence Is Violence.”
But not when it comes to Jews.
Jayapal is a “progressive” Democrat and a reliably Israel-condemning member of “The Squad”. Her strategy for ending the war: “it’s complicated.” She says there’s an alternative for Hamas as the leader of Gaza, but doesn’t say who it is. The Palestinian Authority? She’s asked “who’s going to get rid of Hamas if there’s no continuing war?. She blames Israel’s attack on Gaza for the failure of Hamas to disappear, but Hamas isn’t going to voluntarily go away. Jayapal also lies about Hamas using civilians as human shields, not admitting that it even happens.
As for the question Stephens mentions above if brought up at 6:45, and Jayapal waffles, condemning what Hamas did but then begins chastising Israel for violating “international humanitarian law.” What’s notably absent is Jayapal’s condemnation of the genuine violations of international law by Hamas. This woman blames everything on Israel, which she clearly wants to disappear—even though she calls for a two-state solution.
As Stephens says, this is a great exemplar of one-sideism masquerading as general humanitarianism.
Finally, an NBC News report summarizing the sexual violence of Hamas.
Res ipsa loquitur.
Sic!
And evidence, because it seems we need it in this day and age, of why free speech is so precious: The anti-Semites are outing themselves.
If your beliefs about right and wrong–things like rape and murder–depend on who’s on the receiving end or who’s doing it, then you don’t actually have principals, just politics.
I agree in most part but from what we saw the other day via a video post here of heavily indoctrinated children (I believe your comment could be directed at there teachers) these children stand no possible chance but by fate or luck NOT to turn into a murderer/ rapist or a supporter of. It is a tragedy that awaits these children, a life filled with hate and violence.
Well said.
The treatment of rape by international organizations/overclass and the response of university presidents to question about decrying genocide against Jews are of a piece.
What you see is the new oppressor/oppresed or “new dispensation” or equity in action. In sum, the power over justice moral orthodoxy at work.
I have been thinking about this, started to write it down, but always delete it. We will see if this one gets posted.
There is a strong parallel, at least in my reckoning, between the Palestinians and the Comanche.
My mother-in-law is old enough to have listened to her elders relate firsthand what it was like to live on the Texas frontier under threat from the Comanche.
Every group has a currency. For some indigenous tribes, the currency was prestige earned in raids and battle. Later, horses were also used as a form of exchange. Both of those were primarily obtained through raids on other tribes and settlers.
For a White or Mexican living on the frontier, encounters with Comanche were likely to end in conditions “worse than death”. If you were not killed outright, you would expect to endure rape and/or very ingenious torture, followed by death. Possibly chattel slavery. No one could expect to be spared. The raiders would leave behind a tableau intended to strike terror into those who come upon the scene later.
Knowing people would attempt to track them and exact revenge, the raiders might leave, as an example, a baby’s head on a stick in the trail, to taunt the followers.
Of course, every society is more complicated than that. In rare circumstances, the Raiders might take a child and adopt them into their tribe to replace a deceased tribe member.
One need not live on the Comanche’s traditional territory to become their victims. They were willing to travel hundreds of miles in search of people to raid and make war on.
Even those living on the frontier were not immune to romanticism of the Native’s free-roaming lifestyle and martial spirit. Nevertheless, the truth is that you just cannot live with such people. Either they learn to live with others, or one of you is going to be wiped out. The Comanche were wiped out militarily, but had the good fortune to have some strong reform-minded leaders who led them out of the culture of violence in the late 19th century.
It seems just as possible that Palestinians could undertake a cultural shift and join the civilized world. It is unlikely that they will undertake that task willingly. Perhaps the current conflict will nudge them in that direction.
Certainly for Israel, as all of these horrific details come to light, it is apparent that they just cannot let this pass, or reply with a mostly symbolic response. 10/7 proved that you just cannot live with such people.
Certainly unlikely that they will undertake that task willingly, given how the kids are brainwashed that their life’s purpose is to go on jihad and kill Jews.
And given that, does Israel really expect that it will be able to rid Palestine of Hamas – that a new Hamas under a different name won’t emerge in its place? Some sort of occupation will be required, just as in post-WWII Germany. Who will be the occupiers?
Expulsion of Palestinians is another possibilty. Out of Gaza to Somewhere Else (precise location TBD but not Israel’s problem.) If necessary, Israel could force them into the sea where the NGO ships will pick them up and disgorge them into Europe. Then bulldoze the place. Or rebuild the greenhouses. (Under Right of Conquest, Israel could occupy a defeated Gaza if it chose to, as it does the West Bank. But not with the people currently living there. “All of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.” — Bismarck.)
U.S. Vice-President Harris was saying the other day that any forced displacement of Palestinians from one location to another is totally unacceptable to the U.S. Administration. That must mean it is under active and accelerating consideration as a favoured option. She also said that a unification of Gaza with Judea and Samaria as a Palestinian state is the top priority. That must mean the two-state solution is finally a dead issue that will not be resurrected.
As Max says, you can’t live next to such people, no matter what one might think of their grievances. Either they go or you go. All we are arguing about is what “go” means, and who “goes”. That’s the way of history. If two groups can’t cooperate economically or sexually and won’t forswear violence then one of them is either expelled or wiped out. At some point in the reduction of the losing group it dawns on them that their cause is futile and they submit, resentfully but at least peaceably. Israel doesn’t know yet where that point is for the Palestinians. The Americans found it for the Comanche.
As decent human beings living in a caring and compassionate pluralistic society thousands of miles away from danger, we should not advocate for such draconian solutions. They are Israel’s call, in any case.
Jayapal is disgusting. Fortunately, we are not in her district. Our good friends are in her district—and they vote!
Millennia of dehumanizing Jews has led to this. Rape gets everyone’s unqualified condemnation, unless its rape of Jews. This is the double-standard that Chuck Schumer spoke about with such clarity.
I live in her district. And I’ve sent her office a letter telling her what I think about her comments and position on Israel/Hamas et al. Not that it will make the slightest difference to her.
But I too vote and will be remembering this next election.
Woke Math:
female = +1 bonus point on the intersectionality scale
Black = +1 bonus point on the intersectionality scale
Black female = 1 + 1 = 2 bonus points on the intersectionality scale
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female = +1 bonus point on the intersectionality scale
Jewish = –1 bonus point on the intersectionality scale
Jewish female = 1 – 1 = 0 bonus points on the intersectionality scale
“#Believe all women”.
“Sure, but we need to investigate the full context before we condemn the fine freedom-fighters of Hamas…hey you, you looked at me too long – that’s sexual violence – you’re cancelled. Now where were we – oh yeah, the ‘eyewitnesses’ who ‘claim’ to have seen problematic behaviour…”
Social media: ‘It never happened’, ‘The Israeli’s did it’, “unless there is video footage from start to finish of the rape and mutilation, and this footage is confirmed by Hamas as real, and we can also submit the Hamas verification to experts to check that that is not an AI deep fake – well, if it passes those small hurdles, we will accept that perhaps some occupying Zionist apartheid-loving Palestinian child-haters were harmed in the process of liberation from nazi scum.”
Yep, seems reasonable.
Nothing to see here.
I’m a liberal guy in a liberal city surrounded by liberals. And the way I see it playing out, this has become a white vs POC issue. Black and Hispanic Facebook friends are universally pro-Palestinian. Flags and watermelons adorn their every post. They and the white ultra-lefties that I know view Palesinians as no different from slaves in 1859. It doesn’t matter what Hamas did or does or stands for. No amount of convincing will matter because they will (and do) invoke any excuse for it. Indeed when I have spoken against Hamas and their murders on October 7, I was told that I was “worse than a holocaust denier”. Just to put it in perspective. My Jewish friends on social media are mostly silent. They put an Israeli flag up on their profile pic but they don’t want to risk all the people that they have been calling “allies” for the last decade. My Asian friends have become total ghosts on the issue. A year ago #stopasianhate was all the rage. But this isn’t their problem and they’re stuck between two “minorities”. Do they support the Jews or the POCs? and then risk alienating the one they don’t stand with. So up on the fence they go to see where the chips fall.
If I was going to make a prediction, it is that liberal Jews who otherwise had the back of all manner of social issue will pause and take a step back. Keep the powder dry for when it impacts them directly. That “alliance” is meaningless when your allies desert you. And I think that the moderates will see a boost in Jewish support moving forward and that the days of progressive Jewish support are numbered.
But hey. I might be wrong.
“Hamas has denied that its fighters committed sex crimes, which it said would violate Islamic principles”.
¿Which principles? Taking sex slaves as the spoils of war is 100% Islamic as the prophet himself and his followers exemplified time and time again.
Now, you will find apologists trying to explain away the meaning of “what your right hand possess” in the Quran, as they try to do with “Jihad” or with “there is no compulsion in religion” or with “you may beat them (your women)” and every inconvenient word of the creator… And some people would buy it. Not me.
The Yazidis would like a word, too.
I hear the calls for the Israelis to stop bombarding Gaza and I get the concern but where are the calls for Hamas and it’s allies to release ALL the hostages? There appears to be total silence from everyone about this.
The world knows that if Hamas were to release all the hostages two things would happen:
1) They and the ones already released would speak freely about what happened to them in captivity and what they saw on 7-8 Oct.
2) The IDF would be free to bomb Gaza to rubble, flood the tunnels, and starve everyone in Gaza.
Both eventualities would cause discomfort to the Palestinian cause and so release of ALL hostages must be resisted by every means available.