If you wonder why Nicholas Kristof and the New York Times decided to start publishing bizarre fetish fiction yesterday, look no further than today's release of the final report about Hamas' actual atrocities in the October 7 massacre and hostage-taking. Kristof and his "sources" invented supposed "rape dogs" to distract from the Islamist animals that raped, tortured, and maimed living victims while doing worse to those who died.
David wrote eloquently about "Kristofnacht" earlier today, but the results of the investigation by the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children requires its own focus as well. The commission, acting independently from any government, interviewed the living victims, witnesses, and reviewed the video evidence created by Hamas terrorists during their grotesque and barbaric onslaught in and after their "Al-Aqsa Flood" invasion on October 7.
The French channel i24 reported on the release of the report earlier today, which discusses the commission itself as well as an overview of the atrocities Hamas committed. "This is by far the most all-encompassing investigation," their reporter observes, far more extensive and well-documented than the diffident effort from the United Nations. The evidence makes clear the repugnant and deliberate strategy to use sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) as a genocidal weapon of terror, including something particularly disgusting that the commission calls "kinocide":
What is "kinocide"? Hamas terrorists forced family members to watch the murders and sexual assaults take place, and also forced family members to participate in those assaults:
SGBV was deliberately perpetrated against family members, including a case in which family members were coerced into performing sexual acts on one another. Other documented cases include, inter alia, family members being sexually assaulted or humiliated in each other’s presence. The weaponization of familial bonds maximized the pain and suffering of victims and terrorized their families. This pattern was particularly evident during Hamas captivity.
The commission has its own short presentation to introduce the report to all readers, media outlets, and government officials:
The report summarizes the extensive data in the executive summary findings. The full report runs almost 300 pages, but these points summarize the evidence and testimony. And again, much of the evidence comes from video taken by the Hamas barbarians who employed a level of violence that might have embarrassed a medieval armed force:
- Hamas and its collaborators used sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) deliberately and systematically as an inherent part of a wider strategy of the attack, primarily targeting women and hostages, while minors were also subjected to grave forms of such violence and abuse. Evidence gathered and corroborated by the Civil Commission demonstrates the patterned, multisite, and organized use of SGBV, including sexual torture, committed during the October 7th attacks and against hostages thereafter. SGBV acts were repeatedly and similarly committed in private homes, in public spaces, at the Nova Music Festival grounds and adjacent areas, on roadsides, military bases, and in some cases in front of family members, amplifying the terror and suffering of the victims.
- Hamas and its collaborators used sexual torture to maximize pain and suffering. Victims endured brutal acts, including burning, mutilation, rape, restraining, forced insertion of objects into the genitalia, shootings to the faces and genital area, killings and abuses in front of family members, and executions. Many victims were found handcuffed, bound, or otherwise physically restrained. Extreme forms of SGBV continued against hostages in captivity for prolonged periods, inflicted on both women and men. Those who survived, and those who witnessed these crimes, suffer severe and enduring physical and psychological injuries. This kind of sexualized torture leaves a distinct and lasting imprint on society, producing a form of terror that extends far beyond the immediate victims and long after the killings themselves.
- Hamas and its collaborators inflicted SGBV in multiple locations, employing recurring patterns of abuse. The Civil Commission identified at least thirteen patterns of abuse across multiple sites, including: 1) Rape, gang rape, and other forms of sexual assaults; 2) Sexual torture* , including intentional burning and mutilation; 3) Deliberate shootings to the head, face and genital area; 4) Killings and executions following or committed in conjunction with SGBV; 5) Postmortem sexual abuse, humiliation, and desecration of bodies; 6) Forced nudity and exposure; 7) Handcuffing, binding, and restraint of victims; 8) Public displaying and parading of women and children; 9) Abduction of mothers and children; 10) SGBV inflicted in the presence or near vicinity of family members; 11) Filming and digital dissemination of SGBV, including use of social media to document, glorify, and amplify the atrocities; 12) Threats of forced marriage; 13) Rape and other forms of sexual violence against boys and men.**
- Hamas and its collaborators committed kinocidal sexual and gender-based acts: *** SGBV was deliberately perpetrated against family members, including a case in which family members were coerced into performing sexual acts on one another. Other documented cases include, inter alia, family members being sexually assaulted or humiliated in each other’s presence. The weaponization of familial bonds maximized the pain and suffering of victims and terrorized their families. This pattern was particularly evident during Hamas captivity.
- Hamas and its collaborators made strategic use of videos, digital and social media to exert and intensify harm and to perpetuate, glorify, and amplify the atrocities they committed, including sexualized content made for public display. Perpetrators filmed themselves and circulated images and videos during the attacks, including assaulting, humiliating, abducting, killing women, children, and entire families, and desecrating bodies. They presented women and their bodies as trophies of war. Some videos show militants and Gazan civilians celebrating over abused bodies. Footage also depicts burned bodies and brutalized bodies. Hamas and its collaborators further circulated footage of injured women and girls, and elderly women being violently humiliated and abducted; many of these victims were taken in their sleepwear due to the early-morning timing of the attack, further heightening their vulnerability.
- Hamas and its collaborators systematically staged, produced, and disseminated videos of hostages during captivity. The digital abuse of hostages continued for many months after October 7th. Videos and images filmed by Hamas during captivity, show hostages being tormented, abused, taunted, or humiliated on camera.
- The public display and dissemination of the crimes turned visibility itself into a weapon, prolonging and compounding harm inflicted on victims and their families beyond October 7th. This digital documentation and dissemination extended the impact of the attacks, has undermined survivors’ rehabilitation, and has exacerbated emotional distress and trauma far beyond the initial acts of brutality. Documented patterns of conduct include:
- Recording, live streaming, and posting of the atrocities, including SGBV.
- Glorification and celebration of the crimes online, amplifying the suffering and spreadingfurther terror.
- Recording and sending images and videos directly to families, social media, and community channels to intimidate, humiliate, and terrorize families and society as a whole.
- Recirculating and broadcasting materials depicting victims, causing ongoing trauma to survivors and family members and impeding recovery.
Let's go to the record created by Hamas for their own propaganda purposes, as well as to humiliate their victims and Israelis. The commission reviewed that extensive archive of atrocities, shared in many cases by the terrorists on social media and sent to the families of their victims:
87. SGBV was documented by the Commission through first-responder accounts, images and video footage recorded by Hamas and affiliated groups, morgue staff who handled the bodies of female soldiers, and testimonies of survivors and family members. Testimonies reveal that witnesses were exposed to horrific scenes, including the bodies of women who had been shot in their genital areas; bodies covered in blood; and female bodies whose faces had been intentionally disfigured and mutilated. Testimonies further described the condition of the bodies of female soldiers when they were received at morgues, specifically reiterating these observations and additionally noting that their clothing and pajamas were torn to shreds, and that the bodies bore injuries indicative of extreme forms of violence inflicted both prior to death and post-mortem. ...
90. Hamas’s recordings and footage from Nahal Oz military base, released during and after the attack, depict scenes consistent with SGBV against female soldiers.268 In one such video, unarmed women are seen handcuffed, bloodied, and visibly injured, surrounded by the bodies of other female soldiers and by armed Hamas militants. In several sequences, the perpetrators are heard shouting threats and obscenities as they physically assault, drag, bind, and strike the victims, who appear terrified. The women display signs of severe beating and other injuries. ...
106. In video footage captured at a military base and reported to the Civil Commission by a senior government official with direct access to the underlying materials and responsibilities in the post-attack response, a woman can be seen shot in the genitalia while still alive. 306 Other video footage reviewed by the New York Times as part of its investigation also described the bodies of two soldiers at a military base “who appeared to have been shot directly in their vaginas.”
Note well the mention of the NYT here; there are almost three dozen such references, mainly in footnotes that cite a December 2023 article on Hamas' sexual atrocities in and after October 7. The NYT knew damned well what this report would cite and conclude. And yet, just as the commission prepared to publish this report, Kristof and the NYT chose to distract attention from it with absurd claims of Israeli "rape dogs" without any evidence other than the word of the terrorists who committed these atrocities.
Fox News contributor Eve Barlow unloads on the NYT and Kristof at her Blacklisted Substack:
What I could not yet say yesterday but wanted to is that Nicholas Kristof published his little dog-rape smut in the New York Times because the paper wanted to “get ahead” (as we media pros say) of the story that would capsize every single lie and smear that has been heaped upon Israel since October 7. The New York Times had to publish something so outrageously demented about Israel to distract the masses from the seismic barbarism that would be revealed today; a report that has been two and a half years in the making. The New York Times had to refresh their dehumanization agenda against Israel to ramp up their readers’ confirmation bias ahead of the despicable, cruel - and yes undeniable - testimony that they have actively sought to diminish since Hamas committed the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust. They’ve picked their side, and it’s not that of truth. Let’s bankrupt them. ...
As shocking as this report is, the systemic plot the world has conspired to push out all of us Jews for standing not just by Israel – but for vying to shake from slumber an increasingly self-destructing West – in the wake of the most horrifying day in modern history is even more shameful. The smears. The libels. The bullying and harassment. The banishment and ostracization. Jews are being forced out of Western countries because of “antizionism”. Well, antizionism is the vehicle Westerners use to disguise their preferential treatment of a death cult society that committed crimes beyond your worst nightmares.
Barlow hits the nail on the head. Not only does this report expose Hamas and its Iranian masters as despicable and barbaric monsters, it also exposes all of the pro-Hamas activists in and around the Democrat Party as cheerleaders for terrorists of the most despicable kind. That's not just Mahmoud Khalil, who should have been deported months ago, but other October 7 apologists like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and the rest of the Squad.
Be sure to read the report, and invite others to do the same. Kristof and the editors who approved his "little dog-rape smut" should be shunned from the public square and consigned to the outer rim of the fringe-crankosphere.
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