U.S. Vice President’s remarks come amid allegations from Israel’s critics that claims of sexual and gender-based violence were either fabricated or exaggerated in order to provide justification for its military response in Gaza
Speaking at an event dedicated to raising awareness on conflict-related sexual violence, including the airing of Sheryl Sandberg’s “Screams Before Silence” documentary, “On October 7, Hamas committed horrific acts of sexual violence,” Harris said.
Her remarks come amid steady criticism from Israel’s critics on the left that claims of sexual and gender-based violence were either fabricated or exaggerated in order to provide justification for its military response in Gaza following October 7.
“In the days after October 7, I saw images of bloodied Israeli women abducted,” she continued. “Hamas committed rape and gang rape at the Nova music festival, and women’s bodies were found naked from the waist down, hands tied behind their back and shot in the head.”
Not like it’s some easily ignorable thing like an 8 month genocide…
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Fuck these fascist assholes. This is what happens when we settle for a president that’s more loyal to a foreign country than America.
So you think we shouldn’t have voted for Biden, and this would have been better for Palestinians under Trump?
I think—and this is fucking mental, I know—that we should all vote for a President that’s not supporting genocide.
That would be great. That’s not an option this election. We can either vote for the current support of Israel, or allow Trump to help Netanyahu turn Gaza into glass while destroying America for everyone who is not rich, white, straight, and Christian.
That’s it. That’s all we get this term.
Obviously I’m voting for Biden. That being said, it really is something to live here in the ‘land of the free’ and read sentences stating that voting for someone who doesn’t support genocide isn’t an option this cycle. Pragmatic and true, but goddamn does it burn.
Agreed. It’s completely awful to have to put support for Israel aside and look at the rest of the issues.
It is, and always has been, an option. Perhaps not an easy one, but the two-party duopoly has brought us here to the brink of democratic collapse.
But what gets me is being told that the other guy will be so much worse for Palestine, when it’s not entirely clear that there will even be a Palestine by inauguration day.
Then you should consider weighing everything else.
Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, revoked the Keystone Pipeline permit, created a 13 million acre federal petroleum reserve for Alaskan wildlife, greatly increased oil site lease cost, signed $7B in solar subsidies, enacted the Inflation Reduction act to support clean energy, leveraged the NLRB for an FTC ruling that eliminated non-compete agreements, forgave billions in student debt from predatory loans, created the CHIPS Act to improve reliance on domestic technology, reenacted Net Neutrality, repealed Title 42, ended the Muslim Ban, signed the Equality Act for LGBTQ+ rights, restored gay rights to beneficiaries, reenacted trans care anti-discrimination law, signed the Respect for Marriage Act, enabled unspecified gender on US Passports, rejoined WHO, rescheduled marijuana, actively reducing drug costs with the American Rescue Plan Act…
Trump repealed 112 climate regulations, left the Paris Climate Agreement, disbanded the pandemic response team stalling national pandemic response, left the WHO, repealed trans care anti-discrimination law, repealed gay rights to beneficiaries, enacted Title 42 and the Muslim ban, repealed Net Neutrality, provided tax cuts to the wealthy that further widened our already exploitative wealth inequality, increased tariffs on goods costing the consumers, repealed the ACA without replacement, seated the conservatives in SCOTUS that repealed Roe v. Wade…
Tell that to MacGregor the church-builder.
I don’t follow. Link for context?
It’s an old joke. Here’s on permutation of it: McGregor the Pier Builder
The consent must be manufactured! We will find evidence of those WMD’s after Hamas is destroyed!
There’s evidence Hamas killed and violently abducted people on Oct. 7. Are you saying rape is required to respond?
With the extreme saturation of news on this conflict, it should be apparent at this point. While Israel is dead wrong in their genocidal response, Hamas is also responsible for countless atrocities committed against Israelis and Palestinians.
It isn’t, but even if it were there is direct evidence that Hamas raped a hostage.
This is a lie
When did you decide Hamas members are so moral or well disciplined that they would never rape an Israeli?
Flowvoids statement is factually false there is no hostage that claims to be raped.
When did you decide you can accuse people without evidence? Especially when many claims have proven made up lies by the israeli government.
When all the evidence that israel claimed to have does not exist why do you still cling to the false accusations?
Or do you want to believe Hamas rapes people? Can you not fathom Hamas not raping people?
Maybe the israeli government lies sometimes.
Sexual violence is not always rape. Though there is a push now to redefine rape as sexual violence since all the false rape accusations have now been disproven. The Biden administration is glad that you still interpret it as the same. That is their intention.
This woman has publicly stated she was not raped. You can open google and just look it up.
JFC, this sounds like something the Catholic Church would say after another priest is caught fondling little boys.
As far as I’m concerned, sexual assault means rape. As far as I’m concerned, anyone who does this is a rapist:
No rape means sexual intercourse. Everything has a specific term.
And you can find forensic evidence of rape.
Also this account is different than what I read before which was supposedly someone groping her when she went into a room alone so this testimony is not looking too great.
The rape hoax is required to manufacture consent to commit Genocide. Not to “respond”.