The release of a comprehensive, harrowing report on Hamas atrocities against Israeli women and children on October 7 casts a stark and damning light not only on the terrorists themselves, but also on the media institutions and political activists who have labored to obscure or relativize those crimes.
According to Hot Air, the timing is no coincidence: as the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children prepared to publish its final findings, the New York Times chose to run Nicholas Kristofs lurid piece recycling Hamas propaganda about alleged Israeli rape dogs, a claim unsupported by evidence and sourced to the very terrorists responsible for the massacre.
The contrast could not be more grotesque. On one side stands a nearly 300-page, independently produced report grounded in survivor testimony, forensic evidence, and the terrorists own videos; on the other, a prestige outlet indulging in bizarre, fetishistic fiction that conveniently shifts attention away from the documented sexual torture and murder carried out by Hamas.
The commission, operating independently of any government, undertook a meticulous investigation into the events of October 7 and the subsequent period of captivity. Its members interviewed survivors and witnesses, consulted first responders and morgue personnel, and reviewed extensive video material recorded by Hamas and affiliated groups during and after their so?called Al?Aqsa Flood invasion. The result is a chilling catalogue of sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) deployed not as incidental brutality, but as a deliberate weapon of terror and humiliation.
French broadcaster i24, reporting on the release, described the commissions work as unparalleled in scope and depth. This is by far the most all-encompassing investigation, its reporter noted, emphasizing that the inquiry far surpasses the halting and equivocal efforts of international bodies such as the United Nations, which have often appeared more eager to preserve a narrative of moral equivalence than to confront the reality of jihadist barbarism. The commissions findings make clear that Hamas used SGBV systematically, as part of a genocidal strategy aimed at breaking victims, families, and the broader Israeli society.
Among the most disturbing concepts to emerge from the report is what the commission terms kinocide. This is not a rhetorical flourish but a precise description of a tactic in which terrorists weaponized the most intimate human bonds. Hamas operatives forced family members to witness murders and sexual assaults, and in some cases coerced them into participating in those assaults themselves, turning parents, siblings, and spouses into unwilling instruments of degradation.
The report explains: SGBV was deliberately perpetrated against family members, including a case in which family members were coerced into performing sexual acts on one another. Other documented cases include, inter alia, family members being sexually assaulted or humiliated in each others presence. The weaponization of familial bonds maximized the pain and suffering of victims and terrorized their families. This pattern was particularly evident during Hamas captivity. These are not battlefield excesses; they are calculated acts of psychological and spiritual destruction.
The commissions own introductory presentation underscores the breadth of the evidence and the rigor of its methodology. While the full report approaches 300 pages, the executive summary alone is dense with corroborated accounts, forensic detail, and cross-referenced testimony. Much of the most damning material comes not from Israeli sources but from Hamas itselfvideo recordings the terrorists proudly disseminated on social media and sent directly to the families of their victims, intending to revel in their cruelty and to terrorize the wider population.
The report notes: 87. SGBV was documented by the Commission through first-responder accounts, images and video footage recorded by Hamas and affiliated groups, morgue staff who handled the bodies of female soldiers, and testimonies of survivors and family members. Testimonies reveal that witnesses were exposed to horrific scenes, including the bodies of women who had been shot in their genital areas; bodies covered in blood; and female bodies whose faces had been intentionally disfigured and mutilated.
Testimonies further described the condition of the bodies of female soldiers when they were received at morgues, specifically reiterating these observations and additionally noting that their clothing and pajamas were torn to shreds, and that the bodies bore injuries indicative of extreme forms of violence inflicted both prior to death and post-mortem. ...
The documentation continues: 90. Hamass recordings and footage from Nahal Oz military base, released during and after the attack, depict scenes consistent with SGBV against female soldiers.268 In one such video, unarmed women are seen handcuffed, bloodied, and visibly injured, surrounded by the bodies of other female soldiers and by armed Hamas militants. In several sequences, the perpetrators are heard shouting threats and obscenities as they physically assault, drag, bind, and strike the victims, who appear terrified. The women display signs of severe beating and other injuries. ...
These are scenes that would shame even the most brutal medieval raiding party, yet they are carried out by a group that Western activists and some politicians insist on treating as resistance fighters.
The report further cites: 106. In video footage captured at a military base and reported to the Civil Commission by a senior government official with direct access to the underlying materials and responsibilities in the post-attack response, a woman can be seen shot in the genitalia while still alive. 306 Other video footage reviewed by the New York Times as part of its investigation also described the bodies of two soldiers at a military base who appeared to have been shot directly in their vaginas. The explicit reference to the New York Times is not incidental; the commissions footnotes cite the paper nearly three dozen times, particularly a December 2023 article that acknowledged Hamas sexual atrocities.
This makes the Times recent editorial choices all the more indefensible. The institution cannot plausibly claim ignorance of the nature and scale of Hamas crimes; it had already reviewed some of the same footage and reported on it. Yet, as the commissions report neared publication, the paper chose to amplify Nicholas Kristofs grotesque narrative about Israeli rape dogs, a claim resting solely on the word of Hamas and its allies, without independent corroboration. The effectif not the explicit intentwas to muddy the waters, to create a false equivalence, and to give progressive readers a lurid anti-Israel fantasy to cling to as the real evidence of Hamas depravity emerged.
Fox News contributor Eve Barlow, writing on her Blacklisted Substack, did not mince words about the Times maneuver. What I could not yet say yesterday but wanted to is that Nicholas Kristof published his little dog-rape smut in the New York Times because the paper wanted to get ahead (as we media pros say) of the story that would capsize every single lie and smear that has been heaped upon Israel since October 7, she wrote, accusing the paper of a calculated effort to inoculate its audience against the commissions findings.
The New York Times had to publish something so outrageously demented about Israel to distract the masses from the seismic barbarism that would be revealed today; a report that has been two and a half years in the making. The New York Times had to refresh their dehumanization agenda against Israel to ramp up their readers confirmation bias ahead of the despicable, cruel - and yes undeniable - testimony that they have actively sought to diminish since Hamas committed the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust. Theyve picked their side, and its not that of truth. Lets bankrupt them. ...
Barlow goes further, connecting the medias behavior to a broader Western moral collapse. As shocking as this report is, the systemic plot the world has conspired to push out all of us Jews for standing not just by Israel but for vying to shake from slumber an increasingly self-destructing West in the wake of the most horrifying day in modern history is even more shameful, she argues, listing The smears. The libels. The bullying and harassment. The banishment and ostracization. In her view, Jews are being forced out of Western countries because of antizionism. Well, antizionism is the vehicle Westerners use to disguise their preferential treatment of a death cult society that committed crimes beyond your worst nightmares.
Her indictment lands squarely on the progressive left, which has spent months chanting pro-Hamas slogans on Western campuses and in city streets while dismissing or denying the atrocities now exhaustively documented by the commission. The report does not merely expose Hamas and its Iranian patrons as despicable and barbaric monsters, as Hot Air puts it; it also lays bare the moral bankruptcy of those in the West who have chosen to align themselves, rhetorically and politically, with such a movement.
That indictment extends into the heart of the Democratic Party. Pro-Hamas activists and apologists have not been confined to fringe rallies; they sit in Congress and enjoy the protection of party leadership. Figures such as Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and other members of the so?called Squad have repeatedly minimized or reframed October 7, casting Israel as the primary villain and treating Hamas atrocities as either exaggerated or understandable resistance. The commissions findings shred that narrative, revealing a level of sadism that no honest observer can excuse or relativize.
The case of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Hamas agitator who, as Hot Air notes, should have been deported months ago, is emblematic of a broader failure of will in Western governments. Immigration and security policies that ought to prioritize the safety and cohesion of free societies have instead been subordinated to ideological fashions and identity politics. The same political class that lectures citizens about disinformation has tolerated, and in some cases amplified, Hamas propaganda while ignoring or downplaying the suffering of Israeli victims.
For conservatives who have long warned about the dangers of moral relativism, open-borders radicalism, and the capture of elite institutions by the hard left, the commissions report is a grim vindication. It confirms that the West is not merely facing a distant conflict in the Middle East, but a domestic crisis of values in which major media outlets, universities, and political parties are willing to sideexplicitly or implicitlywith a jihadist organization that rapes, tortures, and murders women and children as a matter of strategy.
The path forward begins with clarity. Citizens should read the commissions report for themselves and encourage others to do the same, rather than relying on filtered narratives from outlets that have already demonstrated their bias. The evidencemuch of it recorded by Hamas for its own propaganda purposesspeaks with a force that no editorial spin can erase, documenting crimes that meet every reasonable definition of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Accountability must extend beyond the perpetrators in Gaza to the enablers in newsrooms and legislatures. As Hot Air argues, Kristof and the editors who approved his little dog-rape smut have forfeited any claim to moral authority and should be treated accordingly in the public square, their work recognized for what it is: a grotesque inversion of victim and aggressor that serves the interests of a terrorist movement. The same scrutiny should apply to elected officials who continue to traffic in anti-Israel slanders while ignoring the suffering of Israeli women and children.
Conservative media, including platforms like The Ed Morrissey Show, have played a crucial role in challenging the dominant narrative and bringing uncomfortable truths to light. The show, now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Rumble, and Hot Airs own #TEMS portal, offers an alternative to the legacy outlets that have too often chosen ideology over evidence. Supporting such work is not merely a matter of partisan preference; it is an investment in a media ecosystem that still believes in objective reality and moral distinctions.
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