AMERICANTHINKER - Indian migrant elected to Scottish parliament says rapists are ‘demonized’ and forced sex falls somewhere along a moral ‘spectrum’
By Olivia Murray Ummm, maybe we shouldn’t let people with ideas like this into our countries?
NPR (Kate Bartlett) - Besieged Sudanese city faces relentless drone strikes and risk of mass atrocities, U.N. warns
Hundreds of thousands of civilians in el-Obeid are being battered by relentless drone strikes and face critical water shortages and a worsening cholera outbreak, while women and girls are reporting high rates of sexual violence.
NPR (Raul Roman) - Sextortion: That's the threat for women who are simply trying to buy clean water
Water is often a scarce commodity in Nairobi's largest slum. The only source may be a local cartel — and with that comes the risk of sexual threats and attacks.
STRIPES (Svetlana Shkolnikova) - Troops could sue military for sexual assault under new bipartisan bill | Stars and Stripes
The Military Sexual Trauma Accountability Act would give troops the right to file civil claims when the military fails to prevent misconduct.
SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Daily Mail lies: Oct 7 victim saved from rape by non-existent Muslim prohibition on violating scarred women
The latest Oct. 7 rape hoax propaganda piece from The Daily insists that the only reason a woman at the Nova music festival wasn’t raped by Hamas members is that she had a scar – and falsely claims that “scars have a spiritual significance in the eyes of the terrorists.”
This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In one of its most brazen disinformation efforts in years, the British tabloid The Daily Mail has published a fake news story claiming that an Israeli woman who was permitted to leave by Hamas militants only avoided being sexually assaulted by showing her captors her scar. According to the woman in question, May Hayat, she had been taken prisoner by “terrorists” at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, when she began to detect “an energy and look in their eyes that every woman knows what’s going to happen next.” However, she insists the men declined to rape her because Muslims subscribe to a belief…Open
STRIPES (Alison Bath) - Woman files $7 million complaint against Navy, DOD over beating outside California club | Stars and Stripes
A military spouse says the Navy didn’t properly address her claim that she was beaten, stripped naked and videotaped by a group of sailors.
SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - The Times they are a changing - The Grayzone live
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the furor over a New York Times report finally exposing legacy media readers to the systematic Israeli practice of sexual violence against Palestinian detainees.
They then fact check a fabrication-filled new Israeli report designed to deflect from the PR crisis, which has prompted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten a lawsuit against the Times. They also cover the latest from Lebanon, the prospect of renewed attacks on Iran, Trump's summit with Xi, and the looming political crisis in Israel.Open
NYTIMES (Isabel Kershner) - Israeli Report Finds That Sexual Violence by Hamas Was Widespread
A two-year investigation by a team of researchers in Israel concluded that sexual violence by Hamas and its allies was widespread during and after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
NYTIMES (Parul Sehgal) - Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir Said Something Taboo About Victimhood. We Didn’t Listen.
A book by the world’s most famous survivor of sexual violence has been read as a manifesto or a cry of pain. What she wrote is far more complicated.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Elizabeth Smart: Bodybuilding pushing me to become stronger than ever before | CUOMO
Elizabeth Smart is renowned for her advocacy for women and children against sexual violence, and now she’s conquering bodybuilding competitions. Smart joins “CUOMO” to discuss her latest triumph. #elizabethsmart #bodybuilding #advocacy Chris Cuomo hosts "CUOMO," a no-nonsense show featuring the day's most important news from all perspectives. "CUOMO" airs weeknights at 8p/7C on NewsNation. #CUOMO NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.