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



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

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…

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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tiktok.com/@abcnewsaus/vi… 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.

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1732119182433558879

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

This is a mass Hannibal procedure 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."

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?

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1732117969767915737

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

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…

Laura Cooper, a 20 year+ Pentagon official, set the stage for Biden's authorization of cluster munitions to Ukraine, telling Congress on June 30 they would be "useful" vs Russian armor

Cooper previously assisted the impeachment of Trump by claiming his freezing of military aid… https://t.co/V99fgMgRbhtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"Laura K. Cooper was one of multiple Pentagon officials who warned the White House that freezing congressionally approved aid to Ukraine could violate the law" https://t.co/ekwmdKVL6inytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/…

Radio New Zealand has initiated an editorial audit over supposed "pro-Russian" editing of 22 stories which contain language that does not comport with US State Department-approved talking points

One article removed a reference to Maidan as a coup rnz.co.nz/programmes/new… Another RNZ article is under review because it failed to adequately justify the Ukrainian government's raid on an Orthodox church and arrest of a priest for speech crimes rnz.co.nz/news/world/487…

Rachel Maddow doesn’t do Q&A from the audience, so I had to find another way to ask her about her relentless promotion of the most discredited hoaxes of Russiagate, from the Steele Dossier to Russian bounties

She peered silently at my badge and security quickly pounced on me My attempt to question Maddow took place at the Lockheed Martin and Palantir-sponsored Truman Project’s national conference

She had just given a paranoid & dull speech about Nazi infiltration of WWII-era USA, and how it parallels the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory

More here:

https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/1664637348401893377

At TrumanCon panel on diversity, equity, inclusion featuring Pentagon officials, I asked how many equitable bombs produced by conference sponsor Lockheed Martin were dropped on kids of color in Palestine & Syria

I also asked if any non-binary US Navy divers blew up Nord Stream The Truman Project was created to cultivate rabidly pro-war, socially progressive Democratic politicians and policy makers. It’s sponsored by a who’s who of arms makers and security contractors.

At this event on the Diaa digital ID app, I asked Ukraine’s ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova about her govt promoting itself as a laboratory for predatory surveillance tech & its maintenance of a kill list that includes my colleagues Anya and @aaronjmate

She walked away

https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1661037114711060481

Eurasia Foundation Pamela Spratlen was on stage beside the Chairman of Visa, who celebrated the war as an opportunity to push new means of digital payments on Ukrainians.

I asked her if she she was at all ashamed to promote disaster capitalism.

A USAID guy shoved me away.

Lol 158 million of US taxpayer $ was wasted in 2 minutes of spectacular failure as a Patriot battery was struck by a Russian hypersonic missile, so the Pentagon turned to Natasha Bertrand- the discredited Russiagate conspiracist who lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop - to save face

https://twitter.com/marquardta/status/1658508441134981120

Four days ago, @jaketapper and @OrenCNN reported - as the Pentagon told them to - that the Russian attack on the Patriot battery was “flubbed.”

Now, as video of the attack comes to light, the Pentagon has been forced to change its story.

Whoops!

https://twitter.com/theleadcnn/status/1657158907913961472

All the corporate Dem hacks are coming out of the woodwork to trash RFK

The latest is Matt Bai, who either does not know that Russia and Ukraine are in Europe, or believes the paranoid neocon mantra that "we have to fight Putin over there, so we don't have to fight him here"

https://twitter.com/mattbai/status/1658101107300659200

Actually, @mattbai, everyone from Fauci to the CDC’s Walensky stated with total confidence that the Covid vaccine prevented transmission.

They did so to justify threatening Americans with job loss & social castigation to force it in their veins. And they knew they were lying.

The Canadian and US govts funded a study (via academic proxies) portraying "far-left" Canadians as de facto criminals for opposing the Ukraine proxy war and criticizing neocon Canadian-Ukrainian Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland.

Freeland personally authorized the study's budget. According to the US/Canadian regime-funded study, "NATO is responsible for the [Ukraine proxy] war" is a "far-right phrase."

Given Ottawa's use of emergency law against "far-right" truckers protesting vax mandates, this feels like a step toward criminalizing antiwar activity.

Looks like the NY Times - led by Bellingcat US govt asset Aric Toler - is the FBI/DOJ's channel for painting Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira as a "conspiracy theorist" through a curated dump of his private chats, including some that contain strong elements of truth. Teixeira's 3/22 chat about "[US] commanders" worried about a Russian seizure of Ukrainian biolabs echoed Nuland's testimony the same month:
"Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we are now quite concerned...Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of"

In announcing his presidential bid today, @RobertKennedyJr delivered a blistering attack on the US war state

RFK said Biden has made Ukraine "a pawn in a geopolitical battle" that has "put the flower of Ukraine's youth into an avatar of death in order to exhaust Russia"
🧵 RFK Jr. framed the billions in US military aid to Ukraine in terms of the war the US government has waged on its poor at home, denouncing the archipelago of 800+ US bases abroad and calling for redirecting military spending to America's needy

Bellingcat's @christogrozev justified the terrorist bombing that killed Russian war reporter Vladlen Tatarsky, calling him a "legitimate target"

Grozev seemed to justify targeting the cafe, stating, "Whether or not this was a purely civilian location, one might argue with that" Grozev also called Russian philosopher Aleksander Dugin a "legitimate" target (his daughter was assassinated by Ukrainian SBU agents), and said "one would hope there's an active Russian resistance inside Russia that takes risks," implying support for further terrorist attacks.

The NY Times only scratches the surface of the wholesale fraud that is Malcolm Nance. Besides the Russiagate deceptions he spun out, Nance lied about his record in Ukraine, where he sat around tweeting all day and despite claiming to be on the front lines, never saw combat 🧵

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1639766945934479360

Malcolm Nance claimed to a credulous Bill Maher that he served on the front lines in Ukraine.

In a previous appearance, while lying about Wikileaks, he suggested he led a 300-strong operations room.

The first claim is false, the second, highly unlikely.

Taiwanese gov't introduces law to criminalize “spreading rumors or disinformation during wartime” after KMT opposition lawmakers misinterpreted @GarlandNixon's satirical tweet about Biden's plan for the "destruction of Taiwan" archive.is/gzZYr#selectio… Here's @garlandnixon's satirical tweet that triggered a major political row in Taiwan after a top opposition lawmaker translated it into Chinese and posted it on Facebook.

Garland's send-up of Biden's militarism was only funny because it conveyed truth.

https://twitter.com/GarlandNixon/status/1625945743000276995?s=20

A 2/25 rally in Berlin led by Left Party’s Sahra Wagenknecht brought tens of thousands of Germans together in support of a peace manifesto signed by 670,000 people

“We don’t want German tanks firing on the great-grandchildren of Russian women and men!”
A major rally against shipping arms to Ukraine and escalating NATO’s proxy war took place on the same day in London under the banner of UK’s Stop The War Coalition

Incredible day at #RageAgainstWarMachine. This is just the beginning.