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As the world’s attention is drawn to the mobs of anti-Israel and anti-American protesters setting up encampments on major universities around the country, remember that the actors in these performative campus intifadas are in full-throated support of what they call the justifiable “resistance” against Israel committed by Hamas terrorists last October 7. A new documentary takes us back to the scenes of those atrocities for an unflinching look at what the “anti-colonialist” resistance they support looks like.
Sheryl Sandberg, the former COO of Meta and founder of LeanIn.org, hosts Screams Before Silence, available to watch for free on YouTube, which shines a harsh spotlight on the barbaric violence intentionally waged on that day by thousands of Hamas terrorists against unarmed men, women, and children. “As heartbreaking as these stories in the documentary are,” the description reads, “we cannot afford to look away.”
In a Facebook post urging everyone to watch the film, Sandberg wrote,
This is the most important post I will write all year.
Earlier this year I went to Israel to bear witness. I heard the horrific stories of the sexual violence that occurred on October 7th. I sat with released hostages who were sexually assaulted at the hands of their captors. And I cried with real-life heroes who saw the naked bodies of women tied to trees. Screams Before Silence tells their stories so we know the truth about what happened on that day.
It is our responsibility to collectively bear witness so their screams are heard. We must stand together to demand justice for the victims and the survivors, and make sure this never happens again, anywhere in the world.
Regardless of your politics, rape is never ok. Rape is not resistance.
Rape is not resistance. This simple declaration flies in the face of the rabid, self-righteous, pro-Hamas mobs that have overrun Ivy League universities to demand that Israel be eradicated “from the river to the sea.” It runs directly counter to the Left’s defiant insistence that, as some protesters’ banners read, “You don’t get to choose how we resist.” It runs directly counter to the Left’s conviction that nothing done in the service of revolution against the purported oppressor is criminal or even immoral – and that includes actions which by any sane measure would be considered the most heinous of war crimes.
Produced by the Israeli production company Kastina Communications, Screams Before Silence features interviews with survivors, first responders, and even captured Hamas terrorists. As you would expect, it is grim viewing, despite the fact that it is not visually explicit (dead bodies are shown in video footage but blurred out). The intensity and horror are such that I had to take a break halfway through the film’s 56-minute runtime. The witness testimonies are harrowing, even unimaginable.
“We would like to think that this couldn’t be possible, that nobody would harm a young girl,” Dr. Ayelet Levy Schachar tells Sandberg. Schacher is the mother of Naama Levy, kidnapped at 19 and still (presumably) held hostage by Hamas. “But then you just see it there,” she continues, meaning the infamous viral video of her bloodied daughter being abducted by feral killers. “They’re the ones who posted the video, the Hamas.”
One survivor of the Nova Music festival massacre related hiding in a trailer for seven hours, all the while hearing many women outside screaming and begging for the abuse to stop. Then there was silence. “And how did the screaming end in those cases?” Sandberg asks her. “They got shot,” was the reply.
A male survivor of the music festival killing field tells Sandberg he witnessed a semi-circle of terrorists raping a girl: “They did whatever they wanted. There were no rules.” The Hamas animals then began slaughtering the girl, but even then did not stop raping her. “I wish I’d had a gun,” the survivor tells Sandberg.
Another Israeli man Sandberg interviewed, an IDF officer, did have a gun. He woke that morning to news of the terrorist attack and said to himself, “I must do something.” He grabbed his weapon, lied to his wife about where he was going, and drove two-and-a-half hours to the festival site, only to find hundreds of bodies, not one still alive. He breaks down in tears describing one particularly horrific discovery.
To a man, the first responders – some of them courageous volunteers – who are trained to deal with the most gruesome of tragedies, tell Sandberg that they “don’t have words to explain what we saw” when they came upon the mutilated victims. They show Sandberg, at her request, pictures of the aftermath of savage sexual atrocities that no sane human being could possibly imagine. The viewer does not clearly see the photos, but the first responders give her rough descriptions of what she is looking at, some of which she cannot even comprehend. Sandberg is clearly aghast, but does not look away.
Authorities that Sandberg interviews, such as an IDF reservist at the military morgue where all the bodies from October 7 were brought, state that the evidence is overwhelming that the sexual violence directed at women was premeditated, planned, and systematic. We will never know the full extent of it, though, because so many of the victims were silenced, often accompanied by the obliteration of their faces through gunfire, to erase the identity and existence of the women they treated as less than human. One woman tells Sandberg that Hamas “has redefined evil,” such that “we will even need to redefine international criminal law.”
Sandberg refrains from commentary until the end of the film, limiting herself to listening and occasionally offering helpless consolation to the brave men and women whose voices and stories she is trying to amplify. There is no need for commentary – the testimony of the survivors and first responders makes more than enough impact.
After being expelled from the universities they have colonized, Hamas supporters (both student and faculty) who are threatening Jews and chanting for intifada should all be forced to watch this documentary in their jail cells, to give them just a glimpse of the actual human cost of the genocidal slogans they sling with such revolutionary fervor. Perhaps a few may even begin to realize that perhaps they’re not on the right side of history after all; instead, they’re complicit in the dehumanizing, mass sexual torture and ecstatic terrorism of the most barbaric ideology on the planet.
But I am skeptical. The ideologues among them will dismiss the documentary and the evidence of war crimes as Israeli propaganda, or justify Hamas’ actions as necessary “resistance.” Nonetheless, the least the rest of us can do is watch Screams Before Silence, know the full truth and share it, and remember that Hamas has vowed there will be many more such onslaughts. The victims and survivors of October 7 have done their part; now we must honor them by doing ours.
Follow Mark Tapson at Culture Warrior.
I’m in discussions with a friend about the Hamas cowards, he’s convinced that it didn’t happen because “They say that there were videos but I can’t find them anywhere,, show me one!”
I show him this and he says that the Jews made this afterwards and it’s fake.
I’ve given up on him, he’s convinced that Israel is the bad guy and nothing I say makes any difference.
Keep up the good work Mark.
There are two opposite cliches to deal with:
Older and wiser
There’s no fool like an old fool
Twas ever thus. Good luck bringing your friend to wisdom.
I’d like to punch out your friend and tell him not to worry or whine because I’m a Jew and it was fake. I’m not a Jew but hey, for a few minutes I could be.
P.,S.,
tell your friend to use a search engine located in an islamic country or area.
He’s not your friend, he’s absolute garbage.
Would he be behaving like this if it were anyone other than Jews?
I doubt it.
Videos! I will not be watching them. I could not face it. But then I have no reason to doubt that there are people capable of doing this – and filming it. And it is harrowing to think of what the remaining hostages may be going through right now.
I also know that “the world” and its Movers and Shakers have a blatant double standard here, and one that is not new. As George Orwell might have said: “All atrocities are equal, but some are more equal than others”.
For example, didn’t Stalin’s Red Army carry out mass rape on a conquered and defenceless civilian population in the wake of WW2? Yet they are officially “goodies” – even in the Current Version.
And does what is happening to women in the DRC have any political weight? So this does not surprise me. It just makes me long even more for the moment, prophesied at Daniel 2:44, when our Creator ends the time during which “man has dominated man to his harm”.
When the loving Kingdom of God, the heavenly government, is ruling over the earth, there will be one perfect standard of justice for all.
He will need a puke bag.
Hamas.com
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Unfortunately, some do not learn until it is too late. Sometimes, they learn neither by history nor actual experience.
It may be thought of as a lack of critical or adaptive thinking.
But it matters not, they had a choice and elected to remove themselves from reality and probably the human race.
Your friend sounds like a progressive. Unfortunately, such people are unreasonable and impervious to facts. I doubt you’ll ever convince him. We pretty much have to give up on progressives past a certain age and concentrate on properly educating the next generation. As for the older proggies like your friend, we simply have to steamroller them to protect ourselves.
“ The Hamas animals”
Animals wouldn’t do that. They are evil satanic cowards.
“Screams Before Silence,”
That is why the Muslim Brotherhood backed entities, their fellow travellers and “useful idiots” around the world had to drown out and silence the reports of Hamas barbarism even before Israel responded. They continue to do so in their hate-fuelled marches since October 7th. When a substantial majority of Muslims across Europe are calling for a “one state solution” everyone knows the finality of that solution.
Sandberg is a far leftist, yes? . I’m amazed she’d be involved in anything sympathetic to any Israeli or Jew! Im amazed she’s not parroting the lie, for example that Gaza people are starving as their markets are open and over flowing and Hamas steals aid and Hamas returns to run Gaza and plan the next 10/7.
One can’t divorce Hamas’ atrocities from political situation that enabled Hamas ( for example funding Iran). The left is responsible for current policies and its media for lies and censorship and anti-Semitism/ anti-Israelism and allowing pro Islam terror posts . Hamas’ Rape-murder, sad to say, is a product of leftist politics.
Again, amazed.
Also, it was reported in the national news shortly after the Oct 7 atrocity that the Biden administration had given Hamas in Gaza a cool $158,000,000 two weeks prior to the nightmare.
Sorry to say, but we have very, very stupid people in this Administration. They must be brought to justice next January, if we are able to win in November.
Mohammed raped a 9-year-old girl who he claimed was his favorite wife.
Her real name is lost to history, but he called her “Aisha” … which was an onomatopoeic name inspired by the noise she made as he was raping her: “Aisha!” “Aisha!” …
Muslims are like this.
It’s in the terror guide, the koran.
Depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam and Moo–Slums.
1400 years of the Islamic scourge on humanity is enough.
Vanquish, crush, defeat, and eliminate it.
Israel should have decapitated the depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islamic Iranian regime
on October 8, 2023.
And America should have helped Israel do it. thoroughly and completely.
Now, one of three things is going to happen eventually and probably soon …
1) Israel will be destroyed by an Islamic surprise attack (Sunni or Shia or both).
2) Israel will end by a slow death as its citizens leave because living there will become too dangerous and risky and untenable for a host of reasons, particularly failure of America to back and support Israel.
3) Israel, with the full support of America, decapitates the depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islamic Iranian regime, as well as any other depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islamic regime that threatens Israel and America … like the deceptive treacherous Islamic Saudi and Qatar and other depraved berserk murderous hate-filled Islamic OPEC blackmailing “Royal” Families.
Option (3) is my recommendation and choice.
Free and good and just people everywhere should realize that Islam itself is like a rabid mad dog.
There is no hope or cure for it.
Islam has been a hate-filled depraved psychopathic murderous berserk scourge on humanity for 1400 years and counting.
Islam is an evil fundamentally morally corrupt brainwashing machine that destroys with hate the minds of human beings from infancy to death.
Enough already.
Rape is not resistance.
It is a solid pillar of islam that nobody talks about.
Those subhumans videoed their atrocities. I hope any the IDF captures and recognizes are summarily executed.
And bury them with a pig carcass … medieval-style method to stopping the carnage.
After October 7, 2023 this baby boomer American Jew will never see the world the same. I follow the news feed from reliable sources of the daily events in Israel. I am not religious but I am the DNA and culture of the Hebrew people. And don’t think for one minute there is a terrible consequence for the willful actions of those who believe they are superior and others not in their clan are inferior. And women are lower than dogs. The young punks that are protesting Israel right to defend and not so much to retaliate than to destroy every terrorist and their terror networks as total self defense. And the women who are protesting Israel and in mouthing off, defend myzzlym jihad should go to these demonic nations and see how they are treated!!!!
Round these little bastards up and send them en masse to the middle east permanently.
Let them live under the taliban, hamas, the mullahs, whichever one is the worst.
No mercy. Just like the moslem rapist filth showed their victims.
This is the only was to cure their mental illness.
They should not block out the detailed images. The world needs to see Exactly what was perpetrated against innocent women and children.
After the absolute horror of October 7th … the Jews have every right to massacre the Hamas cult and their Palestinian supporters who get in the way. There is no difference between Hamas and the population of Palestinian Gaza.
The Palestinians elected Hamas to rule many years ago and have made no effort to vote them out.
So enjoy your comeuppance Gaza..
Here is the Truth …
Depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam itself has been the scourge of humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
On October 8, 2023
Israel and America should have decapitated the depraved murderous Islamic Iranian regime and Hamas
and several OPEC Islamic Royal Families as well who are behind the anti-Semitic hatred and these atrocities and fund and support it.
In particular the Saudi and Qatar and other “Royal” Families could put an end to the hatred and atrocities against Israel and Jews if they so wished.
What are they waiting for ?
Crush the depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islamic swine.
Those Jihadists of Hamas who viciously engaged in that vile heinous sex assaults and outright rapes as well as other malicious and murderous Islamic terrorist jihad attack against those peaceful young people at that music festival , on October 7th., are also horrendously heinous and vile by raping girls and women and brutally cruelly hateful and wickedly mutilating them are Muslim terrorists of the most abhorrent and despicable sort.
Those Hamas jihadists are an outright abomination.
About the actual cause of that murderous jihad massacre that the Muslim terrorist of Hamas committed on October , 7th, 2023.
The “roots” of the ideology of Islamic terrorism is based on the theology of the religion of Islam.
In which has its entire foundation on the Qur ‘an.
That “holy book” of Islam the Qur ‘an [the Koran] instructs on the use of violence and killing of disbelievers for the advancement of Islam. As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123.
47:4.
Furthermore, teaches hate for and towards Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Qu ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60. Therefore , the violent jihadist and devote jihad-minded Muslims despise the Jewish State of Israel.
That murderous demonic jihad entity, Hamas is based on Islam . That’s the actual, real,” roots” of that Israel – Hamas war.
Hamas is a violent and deadly religious organization. It’s foundation is Islam which has Quran as its ’holy book” that instructs Muslims to engage in the violence and killing of “disbelievers” for the cause of Islam, as seen in Surah 2:191. 4: 89. 5:33. 9:123. For example, Surah 47:4 reads, “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”
The terrible reality is that using rockets, machine guns and bombs will make a greater “slaughter among them than a sword can.
The jihadists of Hamas are followers of Quran based Islam and not a “warped’ type of Islam.