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Episode 353 Promo - UN Rape Report Fact Check (w/ Ali Abunimah)

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Chapo, Bernie, Left, Leftism, Socialism, Socialist, Berniesanders, Comedy, Democrat, News, Politics

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Electronic Intifada's Ali Abunimah joins Bad Faith to break down the latest in what some are calling the "mass rape hoax" -- a series of articles and reports that claim to prove a mass rape campaign occurred on October 7th based on circumstantial evidence and a few witnesses with significant credibility issues. Ali walks us through last week's report by UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Pramila Patten, which claims to hold "convincing information" that Hamas raped Israeli hostages. But with no interviews with alleged victims, and no identifying information about alleged witnesses, does the report tell us anything new? And if the most conclusive findings of the report are to cast doubt several rape claims, why was it reported by the New York Times as uncovering new "evidence" -- at least before they walked back their headline? And if Patten admits she did not conduct an "investigation," what does it claim to prove? But first, Ali gives an update on what's been happening this last week in Gaza, including an update on the horrific flour massacre.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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I mean this administration is steeped in blood it commits genocide we mustn't talk about this as if this is normal politics I don't want to hear as

0:11.0

as November approaches oh the other guy, okay?

0:15.0

Someone put this a lot more succinctly than I could,

0:20.0

that Joe Biden has murdered more Muslims than Donald Trump ever banned.

0:25.0

And my position personally is me here in the United States,

0:30.0

I don't deserve to be safer or more comfortable than the people being murdered by American

0:36.4

weapons in Gaza. So I'm not going to make some calculation that says, oh, you Oh you know well some privilege of Americans

0:45.6

deserves more consideration than an American genocide because that's what it is.

0:51.6

This is a made in the USA genocide that's happening in Palestine.

0:56.0

So I think to the extent that elections even matter, I mean do they even matter? Yes, I know that lots of people think they do.

1:05.9

But to the extent that they do, I'm speaking for myself, I want the perpetrators of this genocide,

1:12.4

punished.

1:13.0

Punished.

1:14.0

That's the word I'm using.

1:16.0

I want them to pay.

1:17.0

I want them to pay by being dragged to the Hague

1:21.0

and brought before a war crimes court. But if that's not going to happen or

1:25.5

happen soon and the ballot box is the only way I have to punish them, that's what

1:31.2

I'm going to do. And at this point there's nothing you can, I don't mean you, Brianna, I mean anyone, can threaten me with that would dissuade me from that. Because there's no such discussion. We lose our humanity if we get into discussion that says,

1:46.0

oh well on the one hand genocide but on the other hand rovey weight. I mean that's like saying on the one hand genocide, but on the other hand he made the trains run on time

1:57.6

No genocide. It's the crime of crimes and this administration this this government is doing it.

2:04.4

And I think that there is something of foot in the country

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