NYT Stealth-Edits Headline Claiming U.N. Found 'Evidence' of Hamas Rapes

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Mar. 05, 2024

The New York Times, which is on the ropes over their "Hamas mass rapes" story falling apart, tried to prop up their failing narrative by falsely claiming the UN found "clear and convincing evidence" of sexual assault.

The NY Times has quietly altered its headline, walking back its claim that Patten gathered “evidence” of sexual assault by Hamas on 10/7

Now it’s “grounds to support reports of sexual violence” https://t.co/4A4NlZ8ck3 pic.twitter.com/SqJS2VbEfS
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 5, 2024

Note how the author of The NY Times article, @farnazfassihi, uses much more qualified language in her tweet promoting her article than her editors do in its false headline

“signs of” and “credible reports of” vs “evidence of” pic.twitter.com/RwNoRylkyK
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 4, 2024

Times journalist Farnaz Fassihi appears to have blocked Blumenthal on Twitter for pointing this out. She also blocked anyone from commenting on her tweets.

They didn't find "evidence" of anything as they were blocked from doing any serious investigation by the Israeli government.

This is critical. Already @nytimes is misrepresenting this UN-branded regurgitation of Israeli atrocity propaganda as if it provides new evidence for the “mass rapes” lie. It’s simply a laundering of all the fabrications and evidence-free claims that have already been debunked https://t.co/LvDM971LcQ
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) March 4, 2024

The @nytimes is outright lying here. The phrase "clear and convincing evidence" is not in the UN report. It says "clear and convincing information," which weirdly avoids the word "evidence" for some reason🤔 https://t.co/y66iQ9HXL5 pic.twitter.com/2uzZaAYS3U
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) March 4, 2024

Max Blumenthal wrote Monday on Twitter:

At presser just now, Patten claims "sexual violence occurred on 7 October," yet concedes:
-"Unfounded and inaccurate forensic evidence" was collected by "untrained volunteer first responders," who were also responsible for "the loss of potentially valuable evidence," referring to ZAKA
-No allegations of sexual violence in Kibbutz Beeri could be verified
-Three major allegations (by ZAKA) were "unfounded"
-No attribution of sexual violence to Hamas or other factions could be made
-She did not meet with any Israeli victims of sexual violence on 10/7, none were made available
-"the alteration of crime scenes" marred her ability to collect info
-"Efforts to collect evidence were beset by...the large number of bodies affected by extensive burn damage." This is yet another indication of the extensive Israeli use of tanks and attack helicopters against Palestinian militants and Israeli citizens according to the Hannibal directive
-She did not conduct an investigation or gather evidence; she merely "collected information"
-Her visit to Israel was the result of "pressure from [Israeli] civil society groups and academia"

At presser just now, Patten claims "sexual violence occurred on 7 October," yet concedes:
-"Unfounded and inaccurate forensic evidence" was collected by "untrained volunteer first responders," who were also responsible for "the loss of potentially valuable evidence," referring to… https://t.co/uTjuPf6ayo
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 4, 2024

Blumenthal added on Tuesday:

Western media hyping Pramila Patten’s UN report as proof of “Hamas mass rape” left out a key section which
-states many sources retracted testimony previously given to media
-notes several “unfounded” assertions
-finds an Israeli bomb team altered a crime scene by moving bodies

Western media hyping Pramila Patten’s UN report as proof of “Hamas mass rape” left out a key section which
-states many sources retracted testimony previously given to media
-notes several “unfounded” assertions
-finds an Israeli bomb team altered a crime scene by moving bodies pic.twitter.com/IlvnDc6NyU
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 5, 2024

The report actually undermined many of the lies spread by the New York Times (full image here):

the UN report by Pramila Padden has definitely exposed the New York Times' atrocity propaganda hoax. It states that core "witnesses" they used, Yossi Landau and Shari Mendes, who spread the fetus ripped out of a pregnant woman and stabbed claim, are liars. It's over now pic.twitter.com/fvL9EnCUR1
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) March 4, 2024

The media outlets which pushed the hoax are now citing the UN's report to prop up their lies:

this is amazing. The first story on the BBC's front page right now is the UN report which they lie about by omitting its mandate and conclusion, and beneath it they link back to their own piece on the "mass rape" hoax from December which the report debunks pic.twitter.com/QOMasjdWlZ
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) March 5, 2024

I said this would happen, that the media class who collectively fabricated the "mass rape" atrocity propaganda hoax months ago, BBC, AP, Reuters, Guardian, and of course NYT, would now use it to launder their own hoax. But it's even worse than I thought, because it debunks it
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) March 5, 2024

again, as detailed in the thread below where I go over what the report actually says, they are conflating their own maximalist version of the hoax with the report's minimalist version, to launder the former. And they hope no one will notice. I noticedhttps://t.co/rXpT56cRUJ pic.twitter.com/llPpqkzN4S
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) March 5, 2024

The Intercept, meanwhile, released another report noting how multiple of the "victims specifically singled out by the New York Times" were not victims at all, according to the spokesperson for the Kibbutz Be'eri.

BREAKING: The Intercept went back to check one of the main sources used by the New York Times' Anat Schwartz, Adam Sella and Jeffrey Gettleman in their "mass rape" hoax, and have shown it to have been a fraud. Again, the biggest hoax in NYT history since Judith Miller pic.twitter.com/F3YaNhfUdW
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) March 5, 2024

to be clear, all three of the claimed "rape victims" the New York Times identified in its piece have now been debunked. The first was Gal Abdush, which the entire piece was framed around, and now the other two as wellhttps://t.co/mM0Kj2dePR pic.twitter.com/t8LnHXE3eA
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) March 5, 2024

There's no "reasonable grounds" to believe any of the claims about "Hamas mass rapes" because no actual evidence has ever been produced.

The media is simply repeating their "Big Lie" over and over again in the hope that people will believe it.

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