Kevin Barrett – American Free Press Sept 13, 2026
Last May, an Israeli commission published a report alleging an organized campaign of rape and sexual abuse by Hamas during its October 7, 2023 concentration camp breakout. The Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, chaired by Cochav Elkayam-Levy, titled its report “Silenced No More.”
October 7 rape claims, like similar accounts of babies beheaded and roasted in ovens, have long been greeted with skepticism in nations whose media and politicians are not owned and operated by Zionists. Perhaps for that reason, the Israelis felt the need to “document” their rape stories in the Elkayam-Levy report.
But in publishing their “rape” report, the Israelis inadvertently exposed the mendacity of their own assertions. The Commission included many “rape survivor” testimonies that read uncannily like the breathless stories of alleged Holocaust survivors who claim they were raised by wolves, or who, like Anthony Blinken’s stepfather Samuel Pisar, claim to have sneakily walked backward toward the door of the gas chamber and then snuck out right before it was closed and the gas was turned on.
The “Hamas rape” stories are exaggeratedly lurid and full of outrageously improbable or impossible details. But the real problem is that all Hamas fighters wore bodycams recording everything they did—and roughly half of the 3,000 or so who entered Israel were killed, and in most cases their body cams were recovered by Israeli authorities. The Ekayam-Levy Commission says it had access to 10,000 pictures and videos from those bodycams as well as others from Israelis filming with phones. And then there are the Israeli surveillance cameras. If, as the Commission alleges, Hamas pursued a deliberate policy of terrorizing Israelis with widespread sexual violence, obviously there should be, at minimum, hundreds of images and videos documenting these heinous acts.
Norman Finkelstein in his Brooklyn office. Click to enlarge
But there are none. Zero. As Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein shows in his new book GAZA’S GRAVEDIGGERS: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places:
“Neither the Israeli State nor the Civil Commission has released even one frame, from among the ten thousand photographs and digital segments it amassed, that depicted Hamas committing rape or other acts of sexual violence…Not a single Israeli CCTV, traffic surveillance camera, or individual cellphone captured Hamas committing rape or other acts of sexual violence. The Commission collected ‘extensive’ digital evidence from Hamas digital paraphernalia. Hamas allegedly exploited its gruesome images from 7 October and of the Israelis held hostage as ‘an instrument of terror.’ If inspiring terror was the avowed objective, then, it would seem, the more barbaric the sexual violence it disseminated the better. But not a single confiscated Hamas bodycam, GoPro, or dashcam contained an image of rape or other acts of sexual violence.”
The October 7 Israeli rape allegations, in reality, have always been just as patently ridiculous as the tales of roasted and beheaded babies. Everyone with the slightest knowledge of Hamas and the cultural and religious context in which it operates knows that it would never pursue a policy of sexual misbehavior. Hamas rigorously and scrupulously adheres to futuwwa or “Islamic chivalry.” Anyone who has viewed the videos of hostages being released by Hamas, in which smiling Israelis almost wistfully say goodbye to their chivalrous captors, knows that claims of widespread systematic mistreatment of captives are hysterical exaggerations at best, outright propaganda lies at worst.
This is not to say that no Israelis were harmed on October 7. But Hamas did not deliberately kill or hurt civilians. It engaged in firefights with some of the IDF’s elite units, and in most cases won, as described by Scott Ritter in his memorable article “The most successful military raid of this century: the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel.”
Hamas’s orders were to 1) engage and defeat the IDF, 2) take IDF prisoners as hostages, and 3) as a fallback measure if all else failed, take civilian hostages. Scott Ritter explains: “The taking of hostages was meant to provide Hamas with negotiating leverage for the release of the 10,000 prisoners held by Israel.”
Hamas fighters stumbled on the Nova Music Festival by accident. In the midst of firefights and chaos, some Hamas fighters took the opportunity to capture Israeli hostages. The abduction scenes, with Hamas fighters dragging off women as well as men and heading back toward Gaza in vehicles, have been well documented. It wasn’t a pleasant experience for the hostages…especially the more than 500 of them who were deliberately massacred by Israel’s tanks and helicopter gunships under its Hannibal Doctrine.
But there is no hard or convincing evidence that a single Hamas fighter perpetrated even one sexual assault, much less that there was any deliberate policy of rape. The Israelis, as usual, are lying outrageously and shamelessly, exhibiting the chutzpah for which they are justly renowned.
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When Israelis go into Palestinian captivity, they smile after being released.
When Palestinians go into Israeli captivity they suffer gang-rape, and if released they end up with one kidney.
“But the real problem is that all Hamas fighters wore bodycams recording everything they did”
Gave himself away.
His premise is that the kikes are lying about this and that but the “attack” was real. Typical kike reverse psychology.
There were no “hamas” on big bad october the 7th.
Genocide was always their goal. Lies to commit genocide through the mass media was the method.
Just as there is no shame or accountability these days for lying, there is none for killing innocent people, even if your can’t justify it with a bunch of lies.
Not to say that human evil began with the present generation running things. It is a matter of degree which makes things so bad, such that today it is quite Kosher to lie, cheat, steal, and murder outsiders if you can pretend to yourself they are a threat to your interests, and you can at the same time demean and dehumanize the victims in some way such that you can think of them as trash. That is easily done if your only standard for good and evil is not universal and comes down to only what is in your personal interests.
How did we get here? How did the Americans who are generally now no different from the sociopathic Zionists running Israel become so amoral, and if not, then how is it that their entire establishment, and virtually everything in the mainstream has become so bloody corrupt?
The Zionists are in power in Israel because they are the most ruthless and efficient for the most powerful and most amoral Jews to get what they want. It is the same routine for the US. The most ruthless and corrupt have risen to the top of virtually every institution mainly because any competition based on actual universal moral principles simply cannot compete. If there is no accountability in the manner of attaining power and wealth then anything goes, and the most ruthless always rise to the top and to the positions of power.
These days, most Americans are pleased with the efforts of their corrupt leaders. They support their illegal wars and endless crimes against humanity. They feel they have the power to do exactly what they want, without having to listen to those they regard as weaklings yammering Socratic justice in their faces. As for the establishment, they are oblivious to truther demands for full disclosure of the facts on every controversial issue pertaining to our vital interests, as well as those of other innocent people. They know that to distribute the truth far and wide as a right of everyone will be to lessen and even end their powers. The truth with AI or with anything else the own and control is the the last thing we can have.
However, what we say is that those very beliefs they share to justify their methods are the very reason they have made such a mess of things and why they should be removed, locked up and denuded of all of their powers.
Despite the historical pattern of the rich and the powerful generally being above our laws and moral norms, in our age there are now no real checks and balances to restrain them, and as a result they have corrupted our entire civilization not just to endorse their evils, but also for the people to emulate them in their own lives. Right and wrong become a joke in the pursuit of power and wealth. For most Americans today, the only thing wrong with starting a war against Iran is whether or not they can win it. If they lose it then it was wrong, but it they can win it then it was right. It is the same for Gaza. If Netanyahu, Trump and Kushner can see nothing wrong with flattening Gaza and exterminating the Palestinian inhabitants like they were rats, in order to build an Israeli riviera on the Mediterranean with luxury hotels, brothels, and gambling casinos, then most Israelis will simply hold their noses and look the other way.
Why should the rich and powerful be deprived of what they want to do? Do not those things spell “entitlement” and justify their will to power? Why not a Greater Israel Project, and why not just take Iran’s vast oil and gas reserves if we have the power to do it? As most of the people are not concerned about any moral justification for their desires, they most certainly are not concerned for any moral justification for their methods.
It is the blatancy and the brazenness of the ends and the means now in the West devoid of any real authority of divine law, natural law and even international law which is absolutely being ignored by the powerbrokers in virtually every nation on the globe. Where the public protests are so weak, and in any case virtually ignored, it is as if sociopathy has become politically correct and the new normal. This comes from generation after generation of the most ruthless and corrupt people on the planet concentrating and consolidating more and more wealth into their mitts, while at the same time weeding out all of the moral opposition along the way, such that we have ended up with the most ruthless of crooks and sociopaths concentrated in all places of influence and running all of our major institutions. In this process they have been making the common people over in their own images. If you become too influential in exposing and opposing them they simply rub you out, like they did to Charlie Kirk.
Once a crook has been “made”, he or she is protected and above the law. How many fortunes of respected establishment families were made through crimes, or through amoral and exploitive methods? How many of the more-recent billionaire technocrats were “made” through money-power bribery and ethnic cronyism screwing out fair competition in the release of US military technology to the private sector? Probably most. For those of the establishment who are “made” they always have the insider information such that even when they play the markets they make money when their stocks go up or when they go down. Being “made” means they cannot lose, and as they gain they continue to bleed more and more of the wealth and power from the common people. Presently, in their economic deceptions and usurpations they are destroying the middle class, and that in fact is one of the goals of the globalist elites.
Having made themselves global “owners” at our expense, and having so much power, they now look over the earth and say there are too many of us. Not of themselves of course, but the rest of us. Having wealth and power is all that matters to them and not how it was obtained and is retained. Their methods do not matter to them but they have always mattered to most of the people, as it is our morals and decency to others which have been the true source of any trust and good will for any real prosperity and human flourishing. Now that the corrupt few reign over so much, and without any real checks, they are making the entire world over in their images. They have virtually eliminated any semblance of universal morality and decency, knowing that anyone hampered by such things can never really compete against them,
The other “few” who know that for trust and good will to reign over our increasingly morally-corrupted, fragmented and plundered civilization, that any morality which promotes and defends truth and decency cannot be compromised in efforts to right things, without causing more corruption and evil. This means that the only justification is to use “force” on a self-defensive basis where truth and reason fail to right things. It is “self defence” and the defence of the innocent which is now at stake. After the blatancy of Covid, Gaza, and the war against Iran, there has never been such an urgency for the defence of the lives of everyone.
Another limited hangout from Dinkelstein, acknowledging the false Oct.7 Hamas atrocity narratives, but never exposing it as a false flag and the fact that Hamas is a Ziostani intelligence asset, or admitting that IDF campaign against defenseless Gazan is genocide. Just like he criticizes Jews for exploiting the Holohoax for profit, but never admits the hoax.
Fred B. —
“These days, most Americans are pleased with the efforts of their corrupt leaders.”
The poor Americans are running faster to stand still. The rich ones are looking to get out, leaving the USA in record numbers. The global economy has at least allowed a FEW middle class types to leave for poor countries, but they are not real optimistic.
Fact is you’re talking about Zion in America. It was always there — original Americans were ruled by secret societies far more powerful than freemasons but using masonry as a front. But it was always the Other. No US regime has ever been “for and by the people” although Abe Lincoln may have been dumb enough to think so.
Hope for the disunion. They tried in 1961 but didn’t have much of a plan. With large numbers of unemployed and budgets being strained everywhere, it will be far easier to make the case that each state can take care of its own better than the fedgov. States can also legally control their borders. Despite Trump’s mouthing off, he has actually NOT reduced the number of migrants by any serious degree. Too busy working for Israel.
When the American ‘net goes dark and when the money STOPS you’ll see an amazing site. About good and time too.