Progressive Host Blames ‘Zionists’ In Attempt to Claim Hamas Sex Crimes Exaggerated
Briahna Joy Gray, a popular progressive YouTuber and former spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign, is still casting doubt on the verified allegations of rape from Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, insisting that “Zionists” are employing a “coordinated messaging push” to exaggerate the extent of the terrorist group’s sexual crimes.
Gray, who co-hosts The Hill’s Rising with Reason Magazine‘s Robby Soave, reacted to a NewsNation segment about the overlooking and denial of the abuses that occurred on October 7, Gray declared that “‘believe all women’ was always an absurd overreach.”
“Woman [sic] should be heard, claims should be investigated, but evidence is required. The same is true of the allegations out of Israel,” she argued. “But also, this isn’t a ‘believe women’ scenario bc [because] no female victims have offered testimony.”
She continued:
Zionists are asking that we believe the uncorroborated eyewitness account of *men* who describe alleged rape victims in odd, fetishistic terms.
Shame on Israel for not seriously investigating claims of rape and collecting rape kits.
Zionists are asking that we believe the uncorroborated eyewitness account of *men* who describe alleged rape victims in odd, fetishistic terms.
Shame on Israel for not seriously investigating claims of rape and collecting rape kits. pic.twitter.com/zbHfduQnev
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) December 5, 2023
Later, reacting to a video of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s condemning Hamas for its “weaponized sexual violence.”
“There can be no justification and no excuses. Rape as a weapon of war is a crime against humanity. Such atrocities have no place in any society,” declared Clinton.
Scavenging for something objectionable in Clinton’s words, Gray complained that she had “rarely…send a more coordinated messaging push.”
Rarely have a seen a more coordinated messaging push. https://t.co/Mb7wWB8LJT
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) December 5, 2023
Survivors of the attack reported that they had watched as terrorists raped and murdered women in its immediate aftermath. Circumstantial footage showing women with bloodied pants around their crotch and another stripped down to her underwear lent credibility to those initial reports.
In short order, forensic experts tasked with examining the bodies of dead victims found “evidence of torture, rape, and atrocities,” according to Reuters.
A mountain of evidence — made difficult to collect by the murder of many of the victims, Jewish burial customs, and the hostages taken — in support of the assertion that Hamas used sexual violence to inflict terror on October 7 has nevertheless been discovered over the past two months.
“We connected one testimony to the next,” Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, the founder of the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children told Haaretz. “Suddenly seeing the big picture, how systematic it was, the extent of the violence – it was a punch in the stomach.”
