The
Time Has Come to Get Rid of This Dysfunctional ‘Royal’ Family and Have an
Elected Head of State
Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview - BBC
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It is understandable that people will
be delighted at the arrest of ‘Prince’ Andrew (I don’t think Charles should be allowed
to get rid of his embarrassing relative just like that – he has to live with
the discomfort).
In a way so am I of course. Anything that
discomforts and embarrasses this obnoxious man, who was an arms salesman for
Britain, is to be welcomed. [See Arms and the
Royal Man,
Scottish Left Review]
Questions however need to be asked.
Last November I wrote
that Andrew Was The Tip Of A Royal Iceberg of paedophillia. Charles had also covered
for a series of child abusers – Bishop Peter
Ball who was later gaoled
despite Charles having provided him with a house as well as Jimmy Saville and
Lord Mountbatten The real question was why Andrew wasn’t prosecuted for rape
& conspiracy to pervert the course of justice?
Bishop Peter
Ball sentenced to jail for child abuse
This is not a case of no one being
above the law. Andrew has been treated with kid gloves for the past decade by
the Metropolitan Police. They have steadfastly avoided questioning him over sex
with a minor who was being trafficked.
Andrew was not arrested for rape or
for trafficking in women. He has been arrested for allegedly handing over
confidential government documents. That is a very different thing. And whether
he is guilty of this we have no idea.
Prince
Andrew's BBC Newsnight interview is back in the spotlight - watch key moments
What is really outrageous was that as
soon as he settled the lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre in 2022 he should have
been arrested on suspicion of rape. He wasn't. It beggars belief that he handed
over a reputed £12 million to someone lying about having sex with him.
But the Metropolitan Police showed
no interest in pursuing it just as its shown no interested in more recent
revelations about Andrew ordering,
as if in a takeaway, girls
from Epstein.
This is the real scandal not the trifling matter of a few government documents.
In February 2022, after the settlement
with Virginia Giuffre, I posted a blog
asking whether or not rape had now been officially decriminalised. The Met
chose to ignore this somewhat obvious observation.
In case Cressida Dick, the previous
Commissioner of the Met before the present incumbent racist Zionist, Mark
Rowley hadn’t got it, I posted a meme involving a queue at Buckingham Palace on
news that Andrew was giving away money to people he had never met.
Andrew had only agreed to settle with Virginia Giuffre after his bid to prevent the case that Virginia Giuffre had launched failed. See Bid
to dismiss sexual assault lawsuit. In other words he paid up to avoid a
court case in front of a jury.
Andrew & Epstein in the Royal Enclosure, Ascot
In November 2019, after the interview
with Emily Maitlis, I posted a blog saying that
It’s not a carefully controlled, softball interview with the BBC
but an interview under arrest which is required.
I was interested in the Police statement that
they had ‘arrested a man in his sixties
from Norfolk’. When I was arrested, for a ‘Hamas related terror offence’ i.e. saying I support the right of
the Palestinians to resist the occupation, the Police issued
a statement naming me and the street where I lived.I guess it’s one law for the Royals and
another for Commoners. [see Argus 31.1.25]
Andrew was detained for a very few
hours today under questioning. Now I’ve also been arrested on many occasions
and the first thing that happens is that you are put in a cell for a few hours
before being questioned, finger printed, photographed and DNA taken.
I would be interested to know if
Prince Andrew was also kept in the cells before being questioned. I suspect
not.
And the other question is why Jeffrey
Epstein was allowed to roam, almost at will, the various palaces and royal establishments
as well as attend the Royal Enclosure at Ascot.
One thing is for certain. This circus
of the Royal Family and the Crown should end. This dysfunctional family is an
embarrassment. What we need is an accountable, elected head of state.Not someone who owes his office to the
misdeeds of his long forgotten ancestors.
We don’t have hereditary scientists or
mathematicians and we certainly shouldn’t have hereditary office holders and
heads of state.
As the Genocide & Starvation Continues Starmer and Our War Criminal Leaders Supply Israel
with More Weapons While Corrupt Arab Rulers Welcome Trump
Brighton
Nakba & Gaza Children's March 18.5.25
On Sunday Brighton & Hove PSC held a silent march of about 1,500 people through the streets of Brighton with white ribbons representing Gaza's murdered children. People in Brighton warmly welcomed the march and the only dissent was from about 10 pathetic Zionists near the rallying point.
One idiot held a sign saying 'Stop the Lies - There is no Occupation'. There is no arguing with someone who denies a military occupation in Gaza and the West Bank. Presumably the thousands of soldiers in the West Bank manning checkpoints are merely on holiday.
Little Ms Hitler - aka Victorial Bhogal
Zionist genocide deniers are no different from neo-Nazi holocaust deniers. Both deny that which they support. Present among the handful of Christian and Jewish fascists was Little Miss Hitler, Victoria Bhogal who, when she saw me immediately complained to a nearby policeman. Presumably she objected to me calling her 'Miss' rather than 'Ms'. I shall take note in future!
In the past
19 months we have seen the collapse and impotence of International Law as
Israel has been given a free hand to perpetrate every form of atrocity in Gaza.
In Britain
Keir Starmer has lived up to the response he gave to LBC at the start of the
Genocide that ‘Israel does have that
right’ in response to a question as to whether Israel had the right to
deprive the Palestinians in Gaza of food, water, and all the other essentials
of life.
The fact
that he later denied having
said what everyone could see with their own eyes proves even more clearly that
lies come second nature to a man without personality or principle. As Starmer says, he is a ‘(racist) Zionist without qualification.’
Starmer should be in the Hague for Complicity in Gaza's Genocide - Andrew Feinstein
We now
learn that the embargo on weapons to Israel was yet another lie as Starmer’s
government supplied more
weapons to Israel in the last 3 months of 2024 than the Tory government supplied
for the four year period 2020-23.
Starmer - The Murder of 8,000 Muslim Men and Boys in Srebenica Was A Genocide
The deceit
and dishonesty of Starmer and Lammy is demonstrated by their denial that there
is a genocide taking place in Gaza. Starmer, who even argued at the
International Court of Justice that Vukovar in 1991, where 260 Croat men were
killed was a genocide and who has repeatedly said Srebenica in 1995 was a
genocide when 8,000 people were killed denies that Gaza constitutes a genocide.
In Gaza, hundreds of thousands have almost certainly been murdered, including
countless thousands of children, yet to Starmer it is not a genocide but an act
of ‘self defence’.
Why?Because the British government is actively
complicit in the genocide, supplying both weapons and intelligence via RAF
flights over Gaza. What this proves is that we are ruled by amoral war
criminals and liars who are no better than their Nazi counterparts 80 years ago
who were hanged in 1946 after the Nuremberg trials.
genocide means any of the following acts committed
with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or
religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members
of the group;
(c)
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring
about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Israel’s
attack on the people of Gaza is clearly aimed at destroying, in whole or in
part, the Palestinian people. The pretext is that the aim is to destroy Hamas. If
Israel was only concerned with destroying Hamas why would it attack every
hospital, university, school, mosque, home and church even?
The idea
that theCommand and Control centres are
situated in hospitals for example doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Why would Hamas
place their HQs in indefensible hospitals rather than its tunnels? The fact
that we haven’t seen one single photograph showing Hamas firing out of a
hospital is proof that Israel’s allegations are lies.Just like the lies about the murdered 15 Red
Crescent workers.
Were the
Hamas C&C centres placed in Gaza’s reservoirs? Even the BBC admits that ‘Hundreds of Gaza's water and
sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed’.
What is
obvious is that if you intend to build settlements in Gaza and ethnically
cleanse its population then you need to destroy all civilian structures, especially hospitals.
Israel's President Isaac Herzog: "It's an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved—it's not true. They could've risen up, fought against that evil regime" https://t.co/5UhnhOGdSC 7/10 pic.twitter.com/Itw5JfyN8Y
It’s not as
if Israel’s leaders have been coy about their objectives. At the very start of
the genocide Israeli President, Yitzhak Herzog was quite clear
that
It's an entire nation out there that is
responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved—it's not
true. They could've risen up, fought against that evil regime
Herzog was
the former leader of the Israeli Labor Party a party no less war-like than
Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was equally clear when he invoked the
ancient enemy Amalek. God had told the Hebrew
tribes to
Now go, attack the Amalekites and
totally destroy[a] all that belongs
to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants,
cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
The Deputy Speaker of the Knesset,
Nissim Vaturi called for Israel
to ‘“wipe Gaza off the face of the earth,”.’ Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich complained that
We can’t, in the current global reality, manage
a war. Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even
though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.
Smotrich
was wrong. The leaders of the ‘free’ West have allowed genocide through the
simple expedient of pretending it isn’t happening.
October 7th
was the trigger, the pretext, to carry out the Zionists’ long planned ethnic cleansing
of Palestine. What is happening now is the completion of the Nakba that took
place in 1948.
Hamas
mass rape a ‘hoax’ and ‘fake news’, says University of Sydney professor
After October 7 the Israeli
government engaged in atrocity propaganda designed to justify the genocide
that followed. We had the 40 beheaded babies hoax
when only 1 baby died, shot accidentally shot. Then there was the mass rapes hoax
which the New York Times did
its best to propagate with its article Screams Without Words..
One of the main investigators, Anat Schwartz, was found, in February 2024 to have liked
incendiary posts on social media, including one calling to "turn the strip into a slaughterhouse".
tony greenstein on march!
That too soon unravelled when the
Intercept published on
February 28 an exposé building on claims by Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada and
The Grayzone that there were inconsistencies in the story. The NYT itself was itself riven by doubts
and its podcast The Daily withdrew an
episode that was due to be shown.
It now turns out that there is not
one case of alleged rape that will beprosecuted. Southern District Prosecutor, Moran Gez, told YNet that:
Unfortunately,
it will be very difficult to prove these crimes. In the end, we don’t have
complainants. What was reported in the media compared to what will ultimately
be established will look very different—either because the victims were
murdered or because women who were raped are unwilling to come forward.
We
reached out to women’s rights organizations and requested cooperation. They
told us no one had contacted them. Some parents reached out to these
organizations, asking what to do if something happened to their daughters, but
they didn’t disclose the assaults.
In
this area, I would temper expectations. I know the public is expecting action
and understands the need to address the horrific sexual offenses and assaults
that occurred, but the vast majority of these cases won’t meet the evidentiary
threshold in court, and the criticism will ultimately fall on the
prosecution—unjustly so.
Gez is a hard-line Zionist who
advocates the death penalty for every Palestinian who participated in October 7th.
She is convinced there were rapes yet by her own admission
there were no complainants and no women’s rights organisation had been
contacted by a woman claiming to have been raped. All she can do is speculate.
The allegations of mass rape, which
were used to justify the genocide and the mass rape of Palestinians have, like
the rest of Israel’s atrocity propaganda been shown to be bogus.
The claim
that the 1,139 Israelis who died that day were the largest single massacre of
Jews since the holocaust is also false. The largest killing of Jews took place
between 1976 and 1982 in Argentina, a country that Israel supplied with weapons
and military training. Up to 12% of the
30,000 who were murdered by the Junta were Jewish, despite Jews making up less
than 1% of Argentina’s population. But because Israel was complicit in their
murder this is not counted.
October 7th
was indeed traumatic for Israel but not because it heralded a new holocaust. It
was traumatic in the same way that slave and indigenous rebellions were
traumatic. The trauma was not holocaust related but a consequence of the shock
that was related to the settler colonial fear that the natives may one day rise
up against them
Zionist Accusations that Palestinian Men are Sexual Predators
Mirrors Nazi Tropes about Jewish men – Western Feminists Are Complicit in how Racists
Weaponise Rape
Excerpt from an Interview on Ha’aretz podcast ‘The Week’9.11.23. - "Mass Hannibal" — We killed Israelis on 7 October, says Israeli air force colonel Nof Erez
Zionism,
when it arose was seen by most Jews as a form of Jewish
anti-Semitism. Zionist ideologues like Arthur Ruppin accepted the worst
stereotypes of the Nazis and
anti-Semites, such as Jews being sexual predators, adopting them as its own.
One
medieval myth about Jews was that they poisoned the wells of non-Jews.
Thousands of Jews died in the German Empire between 1348 and 1350 and across
Europe as a result.
Yet
it is an incontrovertible fact that Israeli settlers poison the water of the
Palestinians. David Hearst wrote
how
the settler
attacks come generally at night and where they cannot destroy water cisterns
they poison them by putting chicken carcasses in them.
In
1948 Zionist militias infected the waters of Acre and Gaza with dysentery
bacteria. According to Ofer Aderet this biological warfare was far
more widespread than first known.
Allegations
that Jews were disloyal to the countries they lived in and owed their
allegiance to a cabal of international Jewish ‘Elders’ was part and part of
anti-Semitic discourse.
Zionism
does its best to live up to this myth by actively encouraging dual
loyalty.One of their favourite accusations
against Jewish anti-Zionists is that they are ‘traitors’ – in other words they
have no loyalty to Israel as a ‘Jewish’ state.
When
Ilhan Omar accused US Zionists of allegiance to a foreign country, Israel, it
was as if the heavens had fallen in. Jonathan Chait wrote
that
Accusing
Jews of “allegiance to a foreign country” is a historically classic way of
delegitimizing their participation in the political system.
Even
though it was true it was a case of pure anti-Semitism! Michelle Goldberg in
the New York Times accused Omar of waging a series of
"microaggressions". As I wrote
at the time:
It is inherent
to Zionism that the first loyalty of any Jew is to Israel because their stay in
the diaspora is temporary. "The negation of the diaspora" is fundamental to
Zionist ideology. The accursed Galut (diaspora) needs to be wound up,
In 2013 Israel’s
Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Absorption sent a survey asking
American Jews "where their
allegiance would lie in the case of a crisis between the two countries."
Netanyahu realising the implications had the survey stopped in its tracks but
it would have been interesting to see the results.
Jonah Cohen writing in ‘The Lust
Libel’ argued
that
Antisemites have long depicted the Jews as a
perverse, predatory, and pornographic people; horny vampires of the
Orient. That ghoulish portrait — which, for short, can be called the ‘lust
libel’ — is one of the more enduring of the classical antisemitic stereotypes.
It is no
surprise that Zionist hasbara should adopt this anti-Semitic narrative and
project it onto the Palestinians. Rape has become the principal ingredient of
Zionist propaganda. October 7, instead of being a resistance operation, was organised
rape.
Israeli
women and many Western Feminists, such as those at Brighton Women’s Centre, are happy to go
along with this myth even though its sole purpose is to justify a genocide that
has killed over 14,000 children and over10,000 women in Gaza. White western
feminists are literally helping to kill Palestinian women and girls at the behest
of Jewish Supremacists, women included.
There are
good precedents for this in the history of colonialism. The ‘BlackPeril’
was the fear of White South African men that Black men had designs on ‘their’
women. In the Deep South the fear of Black sexual predators fuelled lynching. White
women went along with this, as is the case today with western feminists.
Foremost
on the minds of Southern Whites was a fear of inter- racial sex, miscegenation.
Whites espoused
the idea that black men were sexual predators and wanted integration in order
to be with white women. And Black women were secretly sluts.
— Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls (@UNSRVAW) March 24, 2024
This
helps explain Israeli soldiers fascination
with the underwear of the Palestinian women they have killed and often raped
(Israeli rape of Palestinians never seems to figure in the discourse of Israeli
women or Western feminism).
Only
today I received a report from a Palestinian woman of rapes near Al Shifa
hospital, which Israel has again invaded.
Zionism’s Rape Fraud and October
7
October
7 was a great shock to the Zionists. They repeated ad-nauseum that October 7 ‘was the worst atrocity committed against the
Jewish people in a single day since the Holocaust.’ Biden was happy
to repeat
this.
Except
that it wasn’t the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust. That was
the murder
of at least 3,000 Jews, 12% of the total victims, by Israel’s friends, the
neo-Nazi Argentine Junta between 1976 and 1983.
When
Hamas and the militants broke out on October 7 they did not kill Israelis
because they were Jews but because they were occupiers. The Nazis and the
Argentine Junta killed Jews because they were Jews. That simple distinction
eludes Zionists.
Yasmin Porat Survivor Speaks:
Israeli forces shot their own civilians
October
7 was the nightmare that every settler colonial regime fears, that the natives
will rise up and take their revenge on their persecutors. It was the fear of
white slavers in the Caribbean, the Apartheid masters in South Africa and the
Zionists in Palestine.
Israel
used October 7 in order to construct a myth of a second holocaust. According to France
24 695 Israeli civilians, including 36 children, as well as 373 security
forces and 71 foreign workers died. A total of 1,139.
There
were undoubtedly atrocities committed, such as civilians or concert goers shot
at close range but that was not sufficient for the Zionists.At first their propaganda was crude but that
didn’t stop the western media from adopting it wholesale.
‘40 Beheaded babies’, ‘baked babies’ and even babies hung on
clothes lines were invented. The serious
press such as The Telegraph and Timesreported
these claims as fact.
Fact
Check on the Beheaded Babies
Today, I spoke again with Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding the latest developments in Israel and Gaza.
I continued to affirm that Israel has a right to go after Hamas, a group of terrorists responsible for the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
A
fact check on Al
Jazeera showed how the claims were false. This included Genocide Joe’s claim that
he had seen them with his own eyes. All this nonsense had to be walked
back as Israel admitted it had no proof of these allegations.
As
Israeli state propaganda and its advocates got their act together, the claims
of atrocities settled on the allegation of mass rape. The attractions of such
claims are many.
Unlike
the beheaded babies, allegations of rape are difficult to disprove and easy to
make. The irony is that senior officers, including the Military Chief Rabbi,
Eyal Karim, actually justified
raping Palestinian women.
According
to Karim ‘wounded terrorists should
be killed, gay people are sick and women are sentimental.’He elaborated
that at a time of war it was permitted to satisfy
the evil
inclination by lying with attractive Gentile women against their will, out of
consideration for the difficulties faces by the soldiers and for overall
success could be considered as excusable in order to maintain morale among
soldiers and the army during fighting.”
Former
Col. Mordechai Kedar, who served in military intelligence for 25 years and a
lecturer at Bar Ilan University, declared
that.
'The only
thing that deters a suicide bomber is the knowledge that if he pulls the
trigger or blows himself up, his sister will be raped,'
Israel
has not alleged that some rapes were committed but that rape was a deliberate
strategy of Hamas on October 7, that it was organised and systematic. When a group of Zionist women picketed in
Brighton they chanted
‘resistance is not rape’ – which is
of course true but no one is suggesting otherwise.
It
is clear that the main aim of Hamas on October 7 was the capture of hostages in
order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners. Something which was entirely
justifiable.
No
one is suggesting that no one was raped on October 7. Rape and war go together
but what is clear is that if rape happened it was perpetrated by the those who
came in Hamas’s wake.
"Today he is a baby, tomorrow he is a fighter." - Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the settlers' yeshiva school in occupied Jaffa, incited his students serving in the Israeli occupation forces to kill everyone in Gaza, including babies.
Of
the 1,139 Israelis including foreign workers who died
on October 7 approximately one-third were soldiers or police and up to half the
remainder were killed by Israel itself. Israel was determined that no hostages
would be taken who would then have to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners. If
necessary they would kill them themselves. See Israel
killed Israelis, confirms new 7 October documentary
As
Al Jazeera’s investigation (below) revealed, many of the deaths of Israelis on
October 7 occurred because Israel had implemented from 12 pm that day the Hannibal
Directive that British papers, including the Guardian have been loathe to mention, despite the fact that it is
an accepted fact in Israel.
A
further investigation by Al Jazeera gives a time line of events on October 7
and provides further proof that many civilian casualties were caused by the
decision of Israel’s military that anything that moved between Gaza and Israel
that day was to be targeted, irrespective of whether their own hostages would
die.
Rape
has long been a favourite obsession of the far-right.From Nazi Germany to South Africa it has been
deployed against the indigenous population. In patriarchal societies rape is a
serious offence against a man’s property and if it is a Black man then it’s
race defilement too. False allegations of rape were made against Julian Assange
because the state knew that such allegations would deter otherwise progressive
people from supporting him. People like my own MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle.
Let
us see how the Israeli narrative of rape has been debunked.
Scandal grows around fraudulent
New York Times "mass rapes" investigation, with Ali Abunimah
The NYT’s Screams
without words
On
28 December 2023, 82 days after October 7, ‘Screams
without words’ appeared in the New York Times. It was the result of an
investigation carried out by Pulitzer prize winner, Jeffrey Gettleman, as well
as two freelance staff Adam Sella and Anat Schwart. Schwartzhad no previous journalistic experience and had
been an Intelligence officer for the Israeli army. She demonstrated where her
sympathies lay when she ‘liked’
a tweet calling for Gaza to be turned into a slaughter house.
Schwartz
also liked
posts about the long since discredited ’40 beheaded babies’ story and a post
calling for Hamas to be labelled as equal to ISIS. Esha Krishnaswarmy revealed that
Adam Sella was Schwartz’s nephew! The stench of nepotism and corruption was
overwhelming. Sella too is not a journalist.
On
December 4 Gettleman, Schwartz and Sella, had written another
article for the NYT What We Know
About Sexual Violence During the Oct. 7 Attacks in Israel which did not
name a single victim. On December 8 the NYT published a correction saying that
the Israeli police were relying on witness testimony not autopsies or forensic evidence.
This
is the problem with Israel’s rape propaganda. There is no forensic evidence of
rape because all those killed were quickly buried. The alleged crime scenes
were not quarantined either.
For a week I embedded myself with Jewish Israeli nationalists who believe it’s a worthy cause and religious duty to block desperately needed humanitarian aid at the Gaza border. They enjoyed pastries with the military while confessing to war crimes and cheering for genocide.… pic.twitter.com/YVaXYdVqgt
There
isn’t one single victim who has come forward. All we have is ‘witnesses’ from
Zaka who are proven
liars and the Israeli military whose lies set off the 40 beheaded babies
story.
Zaka
is an ultra orthodox organisation which was founded by a multiple
rapist, Meshi Zahav. He committed suicide in June 2022 but not before his
colleagues in Zaka had tried to cover them up. Yet despite being discredited in
Israel, the NYT and US media continues to quote them as an impartial
organisation.
The
NYT ran a puff
piece about Zaka on 15 January ‘They
Thought They Knew Death, but That Didn’t Prepare Them for Oct. 7’. As the
Intercept noted in an article
of 27 February
The Times
report on Zaka reads like a glowing portrait of selfless volunteers on a “holy
mission” to honor the dead and give families closure in accordance with Jewish
law. The article could also be read as a whitewash of an organization mired in
sexual abuse and financial scandals for decades. The Times never notes that
Landau appears to be a serial fabulist, and other Zaka volunteers tell stories
that stretch credulity.
‘fail(ed) to
scrutinize Zaka stories. Many volunteers describe extreme crimes that would
leave extensive evidence yet aren’t corroborated by reporting.’
Although the
NYT has refused to comment on the criticisms of its article the Interceptreported
that they had
pulled a
high-profile episode of its podcast “The Daily” about sexual violence
perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 amid a furious internal debate about the
strength of the paper’s original reporting on the subject, Times newsroom
sources told The Intercept. The episode had been scheduled for January 9
Interesting interview with 10/7 survivor Raz Cohen, who gave the NYT the quote “screams without words,” for its headline: “‘Screams Without Words:’ How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence On Oct. 7.”
He just told Tapper the men he saw were not actually from Hamas, but rather Gazan… https://t.co/XTmn2X5mOp
The NYT is
also reported to have cut links with Schwartz. Even worse for the NYT a key
witness Raz Cohen contradicted
a claim in the article that Hamas had committed the rapes.
There
were stories such as naked women tied to trees at the Supernova Festival.
Zaka’s deputy commander, Greiniman, claimed foreign fighters had taken part in
the attack. Another Zaka spokesperson said he saw dozens of dead babies, and children
bound together and burned. Yet another volunteer claimed
they found a sexually mutilated woman’s corpse under rubble with her organs
removed.
Yet only
two babies died on October 7. Nor were any children found bound together or
burned.
Aaron
Mate revealed how former US diplomat, Stuart Seldowitz was on Zaka’s New York Advisory
Board.Seldowitz recently accepted
a plea deal for having racially abused a food vendor in New York with his
anti-Palestinian rants. His rants included saying that killing 4,000
Palestinian kids wasn’t enough.
But
whilst the western media are doing their best to support the fake allegations
of rape against Hamas they are ignoring what according to the UN is very
credible reports of rape, sexual abuse and torture against Israel in Gaza.
The
NYT article was important because it is considered a paper of record. It was
used by Zionists to ‘prove’ that October 7 had been a mass rape attack.
When
Professor Justin Stebbing of
Imperial College, London sent me an email on 21 January saying “thank you
for making me hate all jews, i agree with you they should all be gassed” he
followed it up with a caption of the NYT article.
On January 4, seven
days after the NYT article, Ha’aretz posted
an appeal by the police for victims or witnesses to contact them:
Israel's police investigators are having difficulties
finding living victims of or witnesses to sexual assault committed by Hamas on
October 7
Why would the Police
do this if the evidence is so overwhelming?
The Black Dress
BREAKING: GAL ABDUAH’S SISTER DENIES RAPE CLAIMS IN NYT ARTICLE AND SAYS NYT MANIPULATED THE FAMILY
They had no knowledge the article was going to be about rape and were under the impression it was going to be about Gal ABDUAH’S memory. pic.twitter.com/g6EGS7VXyt
The
main claims in NYT’s article revolve around Gail Abdush, the woman in the Black
Dress, who was allegedly raped at the music festival. Yet almost immediately
after the NYT article the Abdush family denied that she had been
raped and said they had been interviewed under false pretences.
Ynet asks the photographer of "the woman in the black dress" how @nytimes reached her. She explains the rationale of the Israeli journalists Adam Sella & Anat Schwartz:
The
person who took the video of Abdush’s body, Edan Wesley described how Sella and
Schwartz called her repeatedly and said how important the video was to Israeli
hasbara (propaganda).As Ali Abunimah pointedout, Schwartz and Sella
were telling so-called witnesses that their testimony was essential for the
purposes of Israeli State Propaganda. It is clear that Schwart and Sella’s mind
had long been made up.
The
NYT allegations over the woman in the black dress centred on a video by Eden
Wessely.Shiran Maluka, a friend of
Miral Alter, Gail Abdush’s sister, wrote:
Based on what
does Eden Wessely conclude that she was raped? Based on the video she took,
there is no evidence, it’s not true that half of her body was burned, only her
face, and there is nothing but a dress pulled up.
Wesley
herself is a dubious character of the Israeli far-right. In the early days of
the war, Wessely posted
fake news, debunked by the
Israeli media, about “Israeli
traitors who supported Hamas fighters during the attack on October 7th.”
Wessely also shared many posts by the fascist Im
Tirtzu, and posts by rapper, Hatzel,
a symbol of Israeli fascism. In another post, Wessely shared
a picture of Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel, calling her “the devil incarnate.”
In the end, it
appears that the New York Times manipulated a working-class Mizrahi
family in the service of Israeli hasbara in order to score a
journalistic achievement, which in reality is nothing more than a repetition of
fake news and government propaganda.
The
Intercept reported
that as well as the NYT, the
Washington Post, and Los
Angeles Times’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza showed a consistent bias
against Palestinians...
Major U.S.
newspapers disproportionately emphasized Israeli deaths in the conflict; used
emotive language to describe the killings of Israelis, but not Palestinians; ...
Pro-Palestinian activists have accused major publications of pro-Israel bias,
with the New York Times seeing protests at its headquarters in Manhattan for its
coverage of Gaza –– an accusation supported by our analysis.
The Intercept alleged that
The (Israeli)
Channel 12 podcast interview with Schwartz, which The Intercept translated from
Hebrew, opens a window into the reporting process on the controversial story
and suggests that The New York Times’s mission was to bolster a predetermined
narrative...
In the
podcast interview, Schwartz described
her efforts to get confirmation from Israeli hospitals, rape crisis centers
etc. In fact she was unable to get a single confirmation.
“She was told there had been no
complaints made of sexual assaults,” the Times
spokesperson acknowledged. Yet the NYTheadline
was‘‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas
Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7”
The first
eye witness evidence came from an Israeli Air Force paramedic who claimed that
two teenage girls at Kibbutz Nahal Oz had been raped and murdered in their
bedroom. Problem was that no girls at the Kibbutz fitted the description. He
later changed the site of the attacks to Kibbutz Be’eri, but there too no one
matched the description of the victims.
Schwartz then
contacted Kibbutz Be’eri but that drew a blank so she then contacted Zaka and Yossi Landau told her that
When we go
into a house, we use our imagination. The bodies were telling us what happened,
that’s what happened.
Landau
features in the Times report, though
no mention is made of his well-documented
track record of disseminating sensational stories of atrocities that were later
proven false.
After
Zaka, Schwartz’s next port of call was Shari Mendes, who serves in a rabbinical
unit of the Israel Defense Forces. The Intercept reported that Mendes
had also
spoken about other violence on October 7, telling the Daily Mail in October, “A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the
mother was beheaded.” No pregnant woman died that day, according to the official Israeli list of those killed in the attacks, and
the independent research collective October 7 Fact Check said Mendes’s story was false.
Shari
Mendes was a serial liar yet to Schwartz she was a credible witness.
Schwartz quoted
on 14 November in her first story for the NYT, Israel’s police chief, Kobi
Shabtai that ‘This is the most extensive
investigation the State of Israel has ever known,” Yet when “Screams Without Words” appeared forensic
evidence of sexual violence was non-existent.
On the
Channel 12 podcast Schwartz said her next step was to go to a new holistic
therapy facility established to address the trauma of October 7 victims. It was
called Merhav Marpe, or Healing Space.
In
multiple visits to Merhav Marpe, Schwartz again said that she was told there
was no direct evidence of rapes or sexual violence. She expressed frustration
with the therapists and counsellors at the facility, saying they engaged in “a conspiracy of silence.” And so it went
on. The elusive evidence was simply not there so Schwartz began speculating
that it was because Israel was a conservativesociety or that survivor guilt played a part. At no time did she
question her own basic assumptions.
She
interviewed Raz Cohen, who claimed he had seen multiple rapes whilst denying
that the perpetrators at the Nova Festival were from Hamas.
The
independent site October
7 Fact Check, Mondoweiss, Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone have flagged numerous
inconsistencies and contradictions in Cohen’s account. He had initially said
“he chose not to look, but he could hear
them laughing constantly.”
Coupled
with Schwartz’s ‘investigation’ Israel was mounting an intensive public
campaign, accusing the international community and feminists of ignoring the
widespread, systemic sexual violence of Hamas’s October 7 attack.
The NYT Goes Into Witchhunt
Mode as Criticism Mounts
The NYT
management which has exposed many state secrets itself, notably the Pentagon Papers and
more recently the Wikileaks
revelations of Julian Assange didn’t take kindly to being the subject of
exposes, notably by The Intercept
which gave a blow-by-blow account of dissent within the NYT.
The NYT
took a leaf out of Richard Nixon’s
book and began a leak inquiry, more commonly known as a witch-hunt. Vanity
Fair revealed
how ‘at least two dozen staffers,
including Daily producers’ had been called into
meetings in an attempt to find out how internal details about the podcast’s
editorial process got out. The investigation was by Charlotte Behrendt,
the paper’s director of policy and internal investigations.
The article quoted
staffers as saying that this was the ‘first
such internal probe they can recall taking place.’ NYT’s management had
been rocked by revelations about the shelving of The Daily podcast. The Nation noted
sarcastically that
somewhere in
the fiery caverns of Hell, Richard Nixon is enjoying a brief respite from his
eternal torment as he learns how The New York Times is mimicking him
Where
once the NYT could be relied on to subject US Administrations to scrutiny,
today they act as little more than court stenographers to Biden and Israel’s
far-right government. Woodward
and Bernstein have been replaced by Blumenthall, Mate and Abunimah. Today
the mainstream press, led by the NYT, acts as a kind of fools’ chorus to the
senile Biden and Kissinger
protégé Blinken.
If the Times
wanted to serve its readers and the world, it would launch a transparent
investigation into this botched article, the biggest failure of journalism at
the newspaper since Judith Miller’s infamous and
discredited articles on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2002 and
2003. Just as Miller regurgitated war propaganda on behalf of the George W.
Bush administration, the Times is now serving as a mouthpiece for
Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet.
Heer
suggests that the main instigator of “Screams
Without Words” was the NYT’s Executive Editor Joe Kahn, a Zionist whose
father, Leo Kahn, was a longtime member of the board of CAMERA, a pro-Israel
media watchdog. But could Kahn have acted without the approval and perhaps
direction of the Sulzberger family, which owns the newspaper?
Heer
notes that Watergate proved that a scandal could topple a President and asks ‘what scandal is large enough to bring down
the executive editor—or perhaps even the owners—of The New York Times?’
Israel has Struggled to Control the Narrative in
Order to Justify Genocide in Gaza
At the
beginning of December I wrote
a blog on the Israeli hostages who had been released and how their testimonies
had conflicted with the Zionist demonisation of Hamas. Yocheved Lifshitz 85 spoke
of how well she had been treated.
Lifshitz
said the captives were treated well and received medical care, including
medication. The guards kept conditions clean, and hostages were given one meal
a day of cheese, cucumber and pita, she said, adding that her captors ate the
same.
A family
member of Ruth Munder, an elderly woman who was released, told the Jerusalem
Post that Munder did not experience any harm during her captivity. In
a section ‘How did Hamas Treat the Hostages’ the Jerusalem
Post reported that
Initially, there weren't
many people with them, but at some point, more individuals were added. They had
access to a radio and television, where they heard news from Israel. Ruth heard
on the radio that her son [Roi Munder] had been killed… The conditions were far
from ideal; 80-year-old men and women lied down on plastic benches similar to
those in a hospital, without mattresses.
"Fortunately, they did not endure any unpleasant
experiences during their captivity; they were treated in a humane manner," continued the family member.
"Contrary to our
fears, they did not encounter the horrifying stories we had imagined. They
described the initial moments of their kidnapping when the terrorists were
agitated and threatened to harm them, but once they were on motorcycles, they
did not harm them."
Lifshitz
told the press how she received daily visits from a doctor during her captivity.
Lifshitz’s daughter also said that her mother was cared for by a paramedic
during her captivity.
On
October 24, Lifshitz told the press that she was treated well
while in Hamas captivity after she was driven into the Gaza Strip. Her
statements caused an uproar in Israel, with some government and diplomatic
figures accusing the conference organizers of damaging the country's advocacy
efforts by portraying a positive image of Hamas.
Israeli authorities
were outraged at the fact that Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv had facilitated
Yocheved Lifshitz’s interview. Hospital employee Avi Shoshan was suspended and subsequently dismissed. Why
should Israel object to the hostages speaking freely unless they had something
to fabricate?
The organisers of the press conference had
allowed doubt to be cast upon government lies about Hamas and that was
unforgiveable. Ha’aretz reported how Lifshitz started the press conference
by recounting the details of the October 7 kidnapping: "Masses
mobbed our homes. They beat people, took some hostage." She
described it as "very painful.”
It was the statements that followed, however, that drew
controversy in Israel. She said that the kidnappers brought a doctor
that gave them medical treatment, that the hostages were treated well and the
kidnappers were friendly. "We lay on mattresses, they made sure
everything was sanitary," she said. "They made sure we
wouldn't get sick, and we had a doctor with us every two or three days.”
Ha’aretz reported the story as ‘The problem
is you, not Hamas' : Hostages' families lash out at Israeli government.’
"They were very friendly to us," Lifshitz said, "they treated us gently and
looked after us." Clearly this dedemonising of Hamas and the
portray of its members as human beings could not be allowed again.
Israel’s
Channel 12 reported
that Israel’s released hostages ‘are expected to receive close supervision,
and they will be instructed on what to tell the media and what not."
Blumenthall
on what hostages can say
The Israeli govt has imposed strict rules on freed Israelis, closely monitoring or muzzling them entirely
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