Oct. 7 sexual violence was patterned, documented, prosecutable, new report argues

Movie idea: Listnook 2: It’s narwhal time.

What, the Sarcasm Font is not loading on your work machine? Have you tried turning it off and on again?

The people who quite literally said r*** is resistance

The one that says everything Palestinians do is justified because they are resisting Israel, including but not limited to supporting Hamas and other groups' terrorist actions.

Her foundation closed due to trouble with funding. Apparently people didn't want to pay her or the foundation to speak at their events anymore. Of course she's claiming it's due to a "smear campaign". https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/10/grace-tame-foundation-closes-funding-ntwnfb I personally don't understand why she needed her own foundation named after herself with its own administration costs if she wasn't going to care about how her personal behavior affected the foundation's funding and its cause.

I am not implying she should be held as a higher authority compared to the UN, that would be ridiculous. I am just mentioning how absurd her statement was, especially considering how she was/is an advocate for survivors of sexual assault. Just like that Canadian sexual assault support centre.

Israel sucks. So does Hamas.

If these are the thing she believes it’s not a leap to guess at what the mayor himself believes behind closed doors

It's what happens when you care about the optics of words and not the truth of them. People this brainwashed don't hear about Oct. 7 and think, "I should investigate and see if this is true or not, and if it's true I should reevaluate my stance and beliefs." They think, "that sounds really bad *for my side* so I should deny that it happened or it makes *my side* look really bad."

successive generations of brain dead hero plots.

Not even pick a side, kneel down and pledge loyalty to a side. No one is capable of critical thinking anymore.

According to the First Lady of NYC the violence was a result of Israeli oppression and the things they did that have no possible valid explanation (like rapes and baby murders) didn’t happen

World exploded over less with Israel

F*** the evil people brutalizing others. Nobody gets to point a blood soaked finger at the other guy. The people everywhere deserve better, regardless of lineage.

Unfortunately, it's not exactly this. Both Hamas and Bibi enjoy widespread support among their populations. Both were voted in. It would be great if you could point to 2 people and say they are responsible for the whole conflict, if we get rid of them, we'll all live in harmony. But it's not that simple. There are many civilians on both sides that support the war, and even use every chance they get to hurt and/or provoke the other side. And that's not something you can just fix.

I’m used to it. People like to pretend things are simple.

What nuances? There is no genocide. Downvote away.

> You can both abhor Hamas and wish for the people of Palestine to not be genocided A genocide is only [an attempt to physically destroy a group itself.](https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition). Genocide isn’t when 2% of an areas civilians are killed in over a year of urban warfare. That’s not even close to a genocide. > the fact that Israel of all nations is carrying it out is beyond the pale. No, the fact that Israel of all nations is being falsely accused of it is beyond the pale.

The slowest, most unsuccessful genocide of all time, by a country that has ability to get it done in one day...

The correct answer is that they aren't exactly having elections out there. From what I understand, the last election was in 1984 so arguably there is a low legitimacy to claiming that Hamas is The government supported by the people. Like for example, there's already the Palestinian authority which is different and competing in terms of governmental powers. So there's no legitimate government going on.

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Yeah they have to whitewash Hamas so there's a clearly good and a clearly evil party. They believe Israel used Apaches to kill their own people at Nova festival, the Hamas fighters who flew in were just coming because they like psytrance or something. They get their morality from Hollywood movies. Maybe that doesn't apply to the most complex conflict in the world.

There seems to be a group of people whose entire sense of personal morality rests on being on the **right** side. They are **good people** because they are in the **good guy** camp and the **good guy camp** has no bad people. If they recognize their own side has faults, then that isn't just an acceptance of human nature, that parties have faults, that not everyone in a group is perfect. It is a direct attack on their ego, as they can no longer hold **being on the right side** as proof of their own good standing, that they might actually themselves be **bad people** despite thinking they've the correct position.

They also weren’t nice to the hostages. Many of the hostages reported torture, execution threats, starvation and sexual violence after they were freed.

It's this, I think Netanyahu is committing war crimes at minimum while Hamas is also one of the most evil groups on earth, but none of that matters because all of this was just an excuse to destroy western democracies and get Trump elected for whatever reason (usually either bots/trolls, or blatant accellerationism). The fact that so many in the left fully buy into this narrative is incredibly disturbing, making them in essence as unhinged as MAGA in at least this one topic.

"non-human is illegal.... except for Jews wanting to live in Jewish homeland...."

But that's still an evil thing to say. He could have phrased it, "It's horrible if raped happened, but that doesn't justify genocide." Then, at least, he wouldn't be dismissive of r***. Saying or even implying that "rapes don't matter" is a despicable attitude.

I’m not doubting that there is abuse in Israeli prisons. But there is zero substantiation for the allegations made there, and the dog tale one is facially bizarre enough that it should require significant evidence for anyone to take seriously.

nice move the goalpost

What youre doing here is taking a highly contested legal/military situation and presenting your preferred conclusion like its already settled fact. No, cutting off food, water and fuel does not automatically equal crimes against humanity. Thats not how international law works. Blockades and sieges are not inherently illegal. The legal questions are military necessity, proportionality, intent, humanitarian access, whether civilians were deliberately targeted as civilians, etc. Youre also framing this like israel randomly deprived gaza of resources that belonged to gaza. In reality, before october 7, israel itself was supplying gaza with electricity, water, fuel access, medical coordination, and transit for huge amounts of humanitarian aid. Pretty much all humanitarian aid into gaza transited through israelian-controlled crossings. Even after october 7, aid still entered through mechanisms coordinated by israel, egypt, the UN, NGOs, etc. So this idea that israel just imposed some total exterminatory blockade is not reality. And after Oct. 7, after Hamas carried out mass killings, kidnappings and attacks on civilians, israel was under no legal obligation to continue providing free utilities and unrestricted flows of material into territory controlled by the group that just attacked it. Thats the part your framing completely dodges. The collective punishment argument is also being framed dishonestly. It only works if you basically erase Hamas as an actual governing and military force embedded throughout civilian infrastructure in gaza. Hamas did not operate from isolated military compounds away from civilians. They embedded themselves in dense civilian areas, tunnels, schools, hospitals, apartment blocks, civilian infrastructure, all of it. That massively complicates siege warfare and targeting under IHL. You can absolutely argue some israeli actions were disproportionate, excessively destructive, or potentially unlawful. Thats a legitimate debate. But saying “it is documented” therefore crimes against humanity is advocacy language, not serious legal analysis. Same with the journalist point. Journalists are civilians unless directly participating in hostilities, yes. That does not mean every journalist death automatically becomes a war crime. In urban warfare where militant infrastructure is embedded throughout civilian areas, legality depends on intent, intelligence, proportionality, the specific circumstances of the strike, etc. Youre collapsing an extremely complicated legal and military situation into a slogan and pretending the law is simpler and more categorical than it actually is. You don’t know what you’re talking about and your bias is showing.

I don’t know why, but my brain just thinks it’s a lot more cruel and savage to capture, r***, and mutilate enemy women than it is to create blockades of food, water, and fuel. Like I understand that both will result in death of innocents, but one just seems more civilized than the other? Like if I had to be locked in a room with the man who raped, mutilated, and murdered a woman or the man who made the decision to blockade food water and fuel, I’d choose the second guy any day.