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'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.

More from his post:

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.

In related news

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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Whoopi Goldberg suggests that condemning Hamas' rape, sexual assault of Israeli women could 'exacerbate' terror group's fury



"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg suggested on Monday's program that condemning Hamas' rape and sexual assault of Israeli women could "exacerbate" the terror group's fury amid the Israel-Hamas war.

What are the details?

Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin kicked things off by sharing that she's "devastated" over women's groups' silence in the face of Hamas' rape and sexual assault of Israeli women.

"I am still devastated — we’re two months since this war's been underway — by the silence from women’s groups in this country about rape being used as an act of war in this attack," Griffin said before citing a recent video from tech icon Sheryl Sandberg, who also wrote a CNN op-ed on the subject saying the "silence on these war crimes is deafening."

Griffin continued, noting that rape "violates every rule of warfare. It is the height of immorality, and ... the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment has been silent, the U.N. Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has been silent, and the international MeToo movement has been silent."

Goldberg jumped right in, practically cutting off Griffin with her own two cents: "Perhaps the reason they’ve been silent is for the same reason that you just described ... they don’t wanna exacerbate."

Goldberg didn't say what she believes might be exacerbated by speaking out against Hamas' rape and sexual assault of Israeli women, but one would logically conclude it's the terror group's fury and hostilities.

"Listen, I know that this is really hard for people to sit still with," Goldberg added. "So, right now, we’re glad people are coming out, and that’s what we’re gonna keep talking about because we want to encourage — you know, the bottom line truly is this: You don’t have a choice, you have to end this because at some point it’s gonna dawn on everybody there that no one’s leaving. No one’s leaving the land. So the question has to become, 'How do we live together on this land?' That is all that people should be thinking about so that this does not continue to happen."

Anything else?

Fox News noted that Griffin also called out far-left Democrats from "The Squad" for claiming Israel was responsible for an explosion at a hospital in Gaza: "I want to say shame on Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar because they played a role in the fact that this agreement, with the Arab nations that he [President Biden] was going to meet with fell apart. We now know that this hospital attack that took place, Biden said he is very confident it was not the Israelis that did it. It was likely Islamic Jihad and that's because of U.S. Department of Defense intelligence and footage analyzed."

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