This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence
Major media outlets are promoting a new report as an evidentiary breakthrough on alleged mass rapes of Israelis by Hamas on 7 October 2023.
It is nothing of the kind. Weighing in at almost 300 pages, “Silenced no more,” published by a supposedly independent “Civil Commission,” is largely a repackaged compilation of old claims, anonymous allegations and speculation.
This includes numerous claims from figures whose accounts have already been exposed as contradictory, unreliable or fabricated.
But you wouldn’t know this from how the media are covering it.
Britain’s Daily Mail claimed that the report revealed “for the first time” the “full depravity” of the “unimaginable” sexual horrors committed by Hamas “which some on the Left STILL cast doubt on.”
CNN called the new report a “landmark” and invited its principal author for an interview.
The BBC termed it “the most comprehensive” report documenting “rapes, sexual assault and sexual torture” against Israelis.
None of these outlets offered any skepticism or cautious scrutiny – certainly not of the kind they apply when it comes to almost any account of Israeli violence against Palestinians.
Le Monde, in an otherwise sympathetic article, offered a rare hint of criticism, acknowledging that the report may be challenged for combining alleged incidents “of different natures” including acts “for which the sexual dimension is not clear.”
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