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Confronting Acts of Sexual Terrorism Committed by Hamas on October 7
How can anyone still defend Hamas?
“I didn’t want to read this article.”
Almost all the remarks in the comments section of a recent New York Times report on sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women by the forces of Hamas on October 7, 2023, began the same way.
Well, almost all.
No one wanted to read the story.
It’s doubtful, judging by the approximately 90 days it took America’s “Paper of Record” to report properly on the topic — for which there has been a preponderance of overwhelming evidence since about October 8 — that the New York Times wanted to write the story, either.
“‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7,” revealed the New York Times on December 28, 2023. “A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.”
As relieved as many in the U.S. who have been following the story in the Israeli press and from international media outlets — many of which have been covering the sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women on October 7 since shortly after the attack — to see the New York Times finally publishing an account of the…