I am the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. I was born in Israel. I have spent my career working to ensure that the Jewish people not only survive the present but thrive in the future. And I have learned, over and over, that one of the greatest threats to that future is not only the hatred directed at us, it is the willingness of powerful institutions to look away from that hatred, or worse, to invert it.

This week, I saw that inversion play out in real time, in the pages of the world’s most influential newspapers. Two stories appeared within a single day – one in the New York Times and the other in the Daily Mail. Together, they reveal something deeper, not only about journalism or this war, but about whether Jewish lives, Jewish pain, and Jewish truth are permitted to matter in the public square. The New York Times was offered the Civil Commission on October 7th, Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children report. They allegedly declined to cover it.

The Report They Didn’t Want

On Tuesday, May 12, the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children released a landmark report called “Silenced No More.” It is the most comprehensive investigation ever conducted into the sexual atrocities of October 7. Two years of independent work. More than 430 interviews with survivors, witnesses, first responders, returned hostages, and experts. Over 10,000 photographs and videos reviewed, more than 1,800 hours of footage, including material so brutal the researchers themselves acknowledged it was “almost unbearable.”

The findings are unambiguous. Sexual violence was not incidental to October 7. It was deliberate. Coordinated. Embedded in the attack itself. Hamas and its collaborators used rape, gang rape, sexual torture, and mutilation as a calculated strategy across homes, shelters, roads, military bases, and the Nova music festival. They filmed it. They sent the videos directly to the families of the victims. They continued the abuse against hostages held in Gaza, including, the report documents, two minors who were forced to commit sexual acts on each other in captivity.

The report was endorsed by Hillary Clinton. By former UN genocide adviser Alice........

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