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This week, ex-staffers of UC Global testified in the London trial of Julian Assange that they spied on the @wikileaks founder on behalf of US intelligence, their boss proposed poisoning Assange and robbing his lawyer – whose office was invaded soon after. shadowproof.com/2020/09/30/uc-…
The witness statements in London track validate my report from May, which relied on UC Global testimony to a Madrid court and internal company communications to show how US intelligence oversaw a criminal campaign against Assange fronted by Sheldon Adelson thegrayzone.com/2020/05/14/ame…
The Assange trial featured revelations of murder, torture, assassination plots, robberies & spying on the defendant, his lawyers, friends & journalists.

Did Western media ignore all this because the US gov't seeking Assange's extradition was responsible? thegrayzone.com/2020/09/18/mai…
I joined @deepa_driver to discuss my coverage of the UC Global-CIA spying saga and why I think the crimes carried out against Julian Assange should completely shatter the US government's effort to extradite him

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Mar 4
Today, Pramila Patten will launder the “Hamas mass rape” hoax through the UN

Patten was hosted and coached by Israel’s Foreign Ministry and Yossi Landau, the infamous ZAKA liar who fabricated tales of a fetus cut from a pregnant woman, beheaded babies and more

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According to ZAKA, Patten’s visit was the result of Israel lobby pressure on the UN

Her tour was overseen by ZAKA and Landau, notorious fabulists who gifted her with a “Never Again” plaque which she wore around her neck
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In 2022, Patten falsely claimed Russia was giving Viagra to its soldiers to rape Ukrainian women

She later fell for a prank call during which she admitted she had no evidence for the claim, and was a dupe for Ukrainian propaganda
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Dec 31, 2023
Israeli "October 7 survivors" starred in a fashion show this month in the old city of Jaffa (where 10s of thousands of Palestinians were ethnically cleansed and sent to Gaza in 1948)
Here's Israeli model Tal Lee Menachem, who "sought to symbolise the rape of so many Israeli women on Oct 7," according to the Daily Mail dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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Among the models in the October 7 fashion show was Raz Cohen, a star “eyewitness” in the NY Times Hamas rape investigation, who’s dramatically changed his testimony at least five times since that fateful day
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Dec 29, 2023
While much of the NYT "mass Hamas rape" report relies on innuendo, it also purports to contain several credible eyewitness testimonies. One was delivered by a survivor of the Nova electronic music festival named Raz Cohen, who also happens to be an Israeli special forces vet who trains Congolese soldiers. Since his first interview on October 9, Cohen has altered his testimony several times.

Cohen told the NYT he personally witnessed a white van filled with Hamas militants pull up a mile from the Nova music festival, gather over a woman, and gang rape her: "I saw the men standing in a half circle around her. One penetrates her. She screams. I still remember her voice, screams without words.” He said they then butchered the woman with knives.

When Cohen was interviewed on October 9 about the attack on the music festival, however, he did not mention any act of sexual assault committed by Hamas militants. See here: And here:

A day later, Cohen began to introduce vague suggestions of sexual assault into his testimony, but did not indicate that he witnessed any such acts taking place.
“The terrorists captured women and hurt them in any way possible, and when they were done with them, they started butchering them in front of their friends,” Cohen told an Israeli publication:

Cohen was also interviewed by Canada's CBC on October 10, but was not quoted about witnessing any rape:
The same day, Cohen offered lurid new details to PBS, claiming that "the terrorists" not only slaughtered women after raping them on October 7, but engaged in necrophilia as well: “The terrorists, people from Gaza, raped girls. And after they raped them, they killed them, murdered them with knives, or the opposite, killed — and after they raped, they — they did that.”

Testimony he provided to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on October 11 differed slightly, and remained vague: "We see from there a lot of people and girls screaming and murdered by knives. And the girls, the terrorists rape them," he stated abruptly and without apparent emotion.

By this point, no Israeli media had reported that any rapes occurred on October 7.

Cohen quickly fell off the media's radar. He would not be heard from for over two months, when the Israeli government launched an international propaganda campaign accusing Hamas of mass rape in a transparent bid to maintain international support for its genocidal military assault on Gaza.

At this point, when the NY Times' Jeffrey @gettleman interviewed Cohen, likely reaching him with assistance from the Israeli government, the "IDF" special forces soldier summoned for the first time a vivid account of a shocking gang rape on October 7.

How and why did Cohen's story transform so dramatically over time, providing explosive new details at a moment of political urgency for the army in which he served? Was it plausible that a group of hardened Hamas commandoes suddenly paused their surprise attack, which was focused on taking as many captives as quickly as possible, stood in a circle and gang raped a woman, one after another, while Israeli forces mobilized to attack them? Why did Hamas militants use knives to kill their victims, as Cohen alleged, when they carried rifles and grenades? Why did he drop his earlier allegation of necrophilia when speaking to the Times? And why did he mention seeing "a lot of people and girls" being raped to the ABC on October 11, but alter his testimony to refer specifically to a single female victim when interviewed by the Times?

Perhaps most importantly, why did Cohen's friend, Shoam Gueta, who took shelter with him on October 7, not describe witnessing a gang rape when interviewed by the Times?

The Times must have been so determined to validate a propaganda campaign by the criminally mendacious Israeli government that it dispensed with all skepticism, and did not even bother vetting the supposed eyewitnesses. In the hours and days ahead, I will continue to dissect the dubious testimonies that form that basis of the paper's "investigation."
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A 24-year-old accountant only identified as "Sapir" is described by the NY Times as "one of the Israeli police’s key witnesses."

Yet one of Sapir's key claims undermines the rest of her unbelievably lurid testimony. According to the Times, "she saw three other women raped and terrorists carrying the severed heads of three more women."

There is no confirmed record of women being beheaded on October 7. None.

While Hellfire missiles from Israeli Apache helicopters and shells from Israeli tanks may have badly dismembered many of the Israelis and Palestinians they killed on October 7, no record exists of women being decapitated with knives.

Sapir goes on to allege that she witnessed one Hamas militant rape a woman while "the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road.”

This absurdly graphic recollection of Palestinian gunmen playing with severed breasts closely resembles an account furnished to the BBC by May Golan, the self-described "proud racist" who now serves as Israel's Minister of Women's Empowerment:

Why did the Times fail to corroborate Sapir's lurid claim of a triple beheading with official pathologist records? This seems like yet another clearcut case of journalistic malpractice in the service of an apartheid state currently engaged in the crime of genocide.Image
The New York Times appears to have relied on the same credibility-deprived witness as CNN: a supposed paramedic from Israeli Air Force Special Tactics rescue unit 669 identified only as "G" by the latter network.

In the Times, "G" claims (as he did to CNN) that he "had found the bodies of two teenage girls in a room in [Kibbutz] Be’eri. One was lying on her side, he said, boxer shorts ripped, bruises by her groin. The other was sprawled on the floor face down, he said, pajama pants pulled to her knees, bottom exposed, semen smeared on her back."

But as @Mondoweiss explained, "upon examining the names of all the girls killed in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 to match the facts, no pair of Israeli teenagers meeting that description [by "G"] were found dead together."

The closest match to the teenage girls described by "G" is Yahel and Noiya Sharabi, who were 13 and 16, respectively. But according to Israeli media, their bodies were "found in an embrace" with their mother, and not in any condition like that described by "G":

Once again, the Times has been caught relying on a discredited witness whose identity remains unknown, who can not be questioned by the public, and who may have never visited the crime scene he described.mondoweiss.net/2023/12/cnn-re…
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Dec 5, 2023
Released Israeli captives tell Netanyahu's war cabinet how they were deliberately attacked by Israeli helicopters on their way into Gaza, and were shelled constantly by the Israeli military while they were there

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Released abductee Menir Oz: "We were sitting in the tunnets we were terribly afraid that not Hamas but Israel would kill us, and then they would say – Hamas killed you." Image
A relative of released Israeli captives: "They were under constant threat from the IDF shelling. You sat in front of us and assured as that it does not threaten their lives... You will not be able to recognize them on the street and you are endangering their lives" with bombing. Image
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Dec 5, 2023
BBC's key voice here is May Golan, a Kahanist thug who led anti-Black race riots in Tel Aviv before she was appointed Israel's Minister of Women's Empowerment

"I'm proud to be a racist!" Golan declared at one fascist rally she led

Watch and ask, is this hooligan credible?
The BBC's rape report is loaded with demonstrable fabrications and at the heart of it all is the literal fascist hooligan-turned-politician May Golan

She's widely regarded as a demented clown in Israel, but seen as a credible minister of "women's empowerment" by the BBC
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It looks like the BBC was furnished with the photos of dead female Kurdish fighters from 2022, which the head of Israel's "Hamas rape" commission, @CochavElkayam, falsely presented as Israeli women sexually assaulted on 10/7/23

Documentation here:
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Oct 25, 2023
The tyrannical ethnosupremacist regime of Israel has killed the family of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh while he was on air covering its missile strikes

The targeted murder comes a day after Tony Blinken demanded Qatar suppress Al Jazeera’s coverage of Gaza
US Secretary of State and de facto Israel lobbyist Tony Blinken says he demanded Qatar “reign in” Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Gaza slaughterhouse axios.com/2023/10/25/ton…
Record! Israel punishes Palestinian journalists by butchering their families.
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