It’s Past Time For American Jews To Abandon The Democrat Party
The choice is easy and clear-cut: One side in this argument is just, right, and moral; the other is dissimulating, immoral, and evil.The choice is easy and clear-cut: One side in this argument is just, right, and moral; the other is dissimulating, immoral, and evil.'Friends' star David Schwimmer blasts those who deny Hamas raped Jews amid Oct. 7 surprise attack: 'Where is their outrage?'
"Friends" star David Schwimmer blasted those who deny Hamas raped Jews during the terror group's Oct. 7 surprise attack against Israel.
What are the details?
Schwimmer, who is Jewish, detailed his point of view in a Friday post on Instagram, noting that he served on the board of directors for the Rape Foundation for almost 20 years and has been an advocate for child and adult survivors of sexual violence for almost 30 years.
"One crucial aspect I learned early on about the healing process, and for justice to be served by the criminal offenders, is that the survivor be BELIEVED," Schwimmer added.
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Why do so many REFUSE TO BELIEVE — despite all the evidence on camera and in testimony — the women, children and men brutally assaulted by terrorists on Oct. 7th?
Where is their outrage?
In the weeks and months that followed, it became clear that their activism, their advocacy, is conditional.
They’ll fight like hell for ALL victims of sexual violence — unless they’re Jews.
Schwimmer added that for many of the deniers, it's a "convenient way of avoiding compassion and personal responsibility."
The "Friends" alum also linked to last week's investigative story from the New York Times — "'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7" — as part of his Instagram post.
"Perhaps this article will finally make them realize they got it wrong and come to terms with their unconscious bias," Schwimmer added.
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In November, tech icon Sheryl Sandberg wrote a CNN op-ed that took the same route as Schwimmer's Instagram post, saying the "silence on these war crimes is deafening." In the wake of Sandberg's piece, co-host of "The View" Whoopi Goldberg suggested that condemning Hamas' rape and sexual assault of Israeli women could "exacerbate" the terror group's fury amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Last month, NewsNation's Chris Cuomo said he watched raw Oct. 7 video that showed Hamas "enjoyed mutilating" Jews and held their "heads and bloody corpses" as "trophies."
Schwimmer also called the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "morally bankrupt" in early December amid their highly criticized congressional testimonies about anti-Semitism on their college campuses.
"Incapable of answering even the most direct 'yes' or 'no' questions, watch them duck and smirk at the unbridled anti-Semitism and calls for genocide on their campuses. Where is the outrage among students, faculty, and alumni demanding their resignations, an official apology, and enforcement of the codes of conduct?" he asked. "Silence is complicity."
Harvard's President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday, although her exit came amid mounting plagiarism accusations. Penn's President Elizabeth Magill resigned in early December, just days after her congressional testimony.
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Biden officials believe Hamas is refusing to release female hostages over fears they will talk about sexual violence: Report
Biden officials theorize that Hamas broke an agreement to release female hostages to hide evidence of sexual abuse.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller drove headlines on Monday when he publicly floated the hypothesis while speaking with reporters.
"[I]t seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over that they’ve been holding hostage and the reason this pause fell apart is they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody," Miller said, later explaining, "They continue to hold women. They were going to release these women, and then suddenly at the last point reneged on the deal and were never able to provide a credible reason why."
Multiple Biden administration officials confirmed this theory, according to Puck.
The officials explained that part of deal holding together a temporary ceasefire last week was that Hamas would release the remaining women and children hostages. But the terrorists then reneged on the agreement, ending the pause in fighting.
Why? One senior administration official explained, "That is our going assumption, that at least one reason they’re unwilling to let these young ladies go is that they have been sexually assaulting them."
"Everyone assumes it seems to be the case," another official said. "It's quite ugly."
Yet another official told Puck, "What I understand is, part of the assumption is just that they don’t want to release them because they want to continue to abuse them."
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None of the three officials said they had seen concrete, specific proof that this was why Hamas refused to hand over the remaining women in their custody. Rather, they said that this was the supposition of the Israeli government, and that the U.S. believes this is a reasonable conclusion based on Hamas’s strange unwillingness to hand them over.
Hamas' use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war is a concern precisely because Palestinian apologists have either downplayed that widespread sexual violence happened on Oct. 7 or outright denied it. But the evidence is extensive and is growing.
It's especially difficult, after all, to gather first-hand accounts of that sexual violence when Hamas terrorists killed their victims after raping them.
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House Democrat vows to take action over colleague's scandalous remarks on Hamas, rape: 'I will speak the truth'
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) promised on Monday to confront her colleague Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) about comments she made regarding Hamas' use of rape in their Oct. 7 attack.
On Sunday, Jayapal ignited outrage by asserting that criticism of Hamas for using rape as a weapon of war should be "balanced" while at the same time downplaying the significance of what Hamas did by claiming rape just "happens" in wartime.
Those comments necessitate a frank conversation, Dingell responded.
"I'm going to talk to Pramila, I have a call in to her," the congresswoman said on CNN. "I'm raw on this subject because of the hate that I have had directed at me for speaking the truth. I will speak the truth. And I don’t care who it is. Rape is an act of violence, and it becomes too often a tool in any act of war."
What exactly happened to Dingell? According to the Michigan Democrat, in the immediate aftermath of Hamas' attack, she condemned the terrorist group's use of rape, which led to public attacks.
"Palestinian men went after me, called me a liar, demanded I retract it. I got doxxed over the subject. I have spent the last seven weeks researching the raping of women that has occurred in the Middle East. It is outrageous. I condemn it," she said.
Dingell, moreover, did what the White House refused to do.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked on Monday if the Biden administration believes Jayapal's comments were "appropriate." Jean-Pierre condemned Hamas but outright refused to address the appropriateness of Jayapal's remarks.
The documentation of violence that Hamas perpetrated against women is extensive. Yet Palestinian apologists have dodged acknowledging and condemning it outright. It took about two months, for example, before U.N. Women, the United Nations agency tasked with advocating for women and girls, condemned Hamas for its attack.
In the wake of Jayapal's comments, Dingell and Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) plan to introduce a resolution specifically condemning Hamas for perpetrating sexual violence against women.
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Far-left lawmaker stuns CNN host with answer when confronted over Hamas raping Israeli women — and even Dems are outraged
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) shocked Americans on Sunday by asserting that we must be "balanced" in our response to Hamas using rape as a weapon of war.
During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," host Dana Bash confronted Jayapal over the fact that progressives have been "downright silent" on the atrocities that Hamas committed against Israeli women and girls in their Oct. 7 attack.
At first, Jayapal downplayed progressives' silence, which forced Bash to press harder.
The CNN anchor asked Jayapal if she has condemned Hamas specifically for what the terrorist group did to women. Jayapal claimed she has, and then she immediately tried to steer the conversation in a different direction, criticizing Israel and suggesting the country is guilty of committing war crimes.
"With respect, I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I'm asking you about Hamas," Bash shot back.
"I already answered your question, Dana," Jayapal snarked.
"I said it's horrific. I think that rape is horrific. Sexual assault is horrific. I think that it happens in war situations. Terrorist organizations like Hamas obviously are using these as tools," the progressive Democrat continued. "However, I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians."
After demanding that critics be "balanced," Jayapal again criticized Israel, relying on Hamas' unverifiable claims about civilian casualties.
"It's horrible, but you don't see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women," Bash fired back.
At no point in the interview did Jayapal specifically condemn Hamas' use of rape in their attack. The closest she came was her broad denouncement of sexual assault and her observation that Hamas uses it as a "tool."
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Jayapal's comments predictably earned outage from conservatives. But, perhaps surprisingly, Democrats and media personalities also voiced alarm at Jayapal's remarks.
"Hamas terrorists raped Israeli women and girls. The only ‘balanced’ approach is to condemn sexual violence loudly, forcefully and without exceptions. Outrageous for anyone to 'both sides' sexual violence," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) responded.
"I should not have to say this in 2023 but here we are: RAPE IS RAPE. Do not minimize, excuse, 'balance' or 'both sides' sexual assault — that is victim blaming we have spent decades trying to undo in the laws, the courts and the hearts and minds of the people," said Christine Pelosi, daughter of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
"This is beyond f***ed up. Every single one of these Democratic primaries of the ‘progressives’ is going to be justified," Jessica Tarlov, the resident liberal commentator at Fox News, reacted.
CNN anchor Bianna Golodryga said, "@RepJayapal, most wars don’t feature premeditated rape as part of the war plan. Individual acts of rape from lack of discipline, which tragically does occur in war, is different than 'preconceived and premeditated' rapes, which as one leading expert told me was Hamas’ plan."
Golodryga, moreover, pointed out that Jayapal has not released a statement that specifically condemns Hamas for their use of sexual violence on Oct. 7.
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