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The Loudest Voice Isn't Always The Right One Download YouTube 2023-11-21 (#141) < Previous Next > “America's Rabbi", International Best-selling author, broadcaster, relationships expert, Champion of Israel and Human Rights, Anti-Genocide Activist debates "Creators: Roy Peker & Keren Shefet Video Transcription: Coming soon

Senator Jacqui Lambie lays into Hamas & the Australian media. Download YouTube 2023-10-25 (#040) < Previous Next > Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie admits to being no epert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but says she knows a criminal act when she sees one. Being a soldier, she says, is an honorable profession. Soldiers don't murder babes or take entire families hostage. Hamas terrorists are nothing but brutal rapists and murderers, criminals who murder young people at a music festival, mothers and fathers and children and babies. A man holding a gun against a child or a baby is not a fighter, he's a thug and a coward. She calls on the media to expose Hamas for what they are: terrorists, criminals and murderers Video Transcription: Coming soon

The UN fails woman around the world. Who are they really helping? Download YouTube 2023-12-19 (221) < Previous Next > Credits: Tom Lahat @lahatom Video Transcription:

We have to be outraged': Calling out silence over Hamas' sexual violence Download YouTube 2023-12-06 (#190) < Previous Next > Westchester County, NY DA Mimi Rocah and Joyce Vance join Morning Joe to discuss the lack of international outrage over the reports of sexual violence committed in the Hamas terror attacks. Video Transcription: So today the united nations is going to hold a hearing on the sexual and gender based violence reported during the attack and the silence from the international community that followed. Joining us now, former U. S. Attorney and MSNBC legal analyst, Joyce Vance, District attorney for New York's Westchester County, Mimi Roka. They are co authors of a new opinion piece in Slate calling out the lack of international outrage over the reports of sexual violence committed in the October 7 hamas terror attacks. A lot of it is seen on video and documented in video of women who were raped, killed while they were being raped, young girls who were raped. I mean, the evidence is clear, and yet, Mimi, I'll start with you. There has not been a focus on this as a war crime or on this enough, according to many who believe women's rights are not even being considered here. Yeah. Thank you so much, Joe Mika, for talking about this important topic. And I guess the thing I would say, given the clip you played, is why we don't have to be balanced in our outrage, which I think is the phrase that was used. We should not be balanced in our outrage, not against the Palestinians, by the way, she said Palestinians. It's against Hamas. Hamas did this on October 7. And we have to be outraged because, first of all, the girls who had their pelvic bones broken because they were raped so much, whose legs were broken, who were shot while people were still raping them, they deserve us to be outraged, as any woman of any background would. Second, because there are still young women hostages, and we have every reason to believe something horrible may be happening to them. And so we have to be outraged. The whole world has to be outraged and demand their release now, just as we've done for other girls who were taken captive in other parts of the world. And finally, Mika, and this is the most nuanced point, but I hope women everywhere understand it. It's because this hurts women everywhere when we say, tell us, don't believe what your eyes are seeing. When we let people with an agenda like Hamas men dictate when we believe rape happened. No. We have evidence here. I'm a prosecutor. Joyce is a prosecutor. We look at the video. We listen to the witness testimony. We hear the accounts of people who saw it, and we can't let other people tell us when to believe rape happened. It happened. And we have to support all women everywhere. Joyce fans, your take and what do you think needs to be done? So I think, Mika, that Mimi makes the most important point here, and it gives us the starting point going forward. This is, as y'all have been discussing this morning, a hopelessly complicated crisis. The question is, what's the path forward? And perhaps a small piece of that starts with an acknowledgement of our common humanity. It's not complicated to condemn rape. It shouldn't be difficult. And often in the heat of the moment, it's difficult for people to reconcile their emotions. Now, the United Nations hearings give us an opportunity to evaluate the evidence, and that's what Mimi and I do. As prosecutors, we're used to discussing the evidence, even in these horrific sexual crimes, in a very straightforward manner. This will be painful and difficult for many people to listen to. But the evidence, the eyewitness accounts, the accounts of medics and first responders absolutely confirms that these rapes took place, that they were torture rapes. Now, it's incumbent upon women in the international community and here domestically, to take a moment to reflect and to evaluate on what the evidence says. And then we can speak with one voice and say, this is wrong. It doesn't matter if it happens in war. It certainly shouldn't make a difference that the victims are Jews and Israelis. We can condemn this and acknowledge our shared humanity and begin to move forward to deal with the other implications of this cris. Mimi during World War II, military code law was that American soldiers who raped a woman could be executed. And that actually relaxed a bit just because men of color were convicted unfairly and Eisenhower intervened in a case. And then by the time we got to Germany, it wasn't necessarily that an American soldier would get convicted. And George Patton was infuriated. And that was the ethos of the US. Military during that war. If any American soldier raped a woman, they should be executed. How did we get from that to today where you have American leaders trying to equivocate here? I don't totally know the answer to that, but my educated guess or opinion is that it's about victim blaming. And that's why I say this is so dangerous to all women, because for many complicated reasons, as Joyce says. And I'm not here as an expert on foreign relations or the war itself or anything. I'm here on this one issue about women and sexual assault and believing victims and believing the evidence that we see in front of our eyes. But I also am very familiar with victim blaming. I mean, we know it in this country. From her skirt was too short, she drank too much, and we've all fought, I think, quite hard for decades to get away from that. And this feels very reminiscent of that. The girls at the music festival have nothing to do with the bombing that's happening now. But yet when you pivot from, yes, rape is bad, but don't bomb Gaza, you're inherently blaming these victims for that. And I think that's what's going on here with some people. I mean, this is a generalization, and it's wrong, and it's dangerous for all of us, for all women everywhere. Joyce what you and me are concerned about in part, is the international community's failure to condemn the rapes. What more do we need to know about that. Who are we talking about? What have they failed to do? Right? So there was silence for a lengthy period of time. There were even some folks who suggested, as Mimi's been discussing, that the accounts of these rapes weren't credible. I think today there's a little bit of a restart. The United Nations was extremely slow to acknowledge and condemn these rapes. Now we appear to be on that path. These are war crimes, and they can be prosecuted as such. It's also a possibility, quite frankly, that the Justice Department could engage on the topic of American women who were kidnapped and who were raped, and there could be prosecutions. Israeli law on conspiracy is a little bit different than our law in the United States. It's more demanding and restrictive in terms of the need to specifically show an agreement that encompassed an agreement that Israeli women would be raped as part of this operation. There is evidence that indicates that there was preparation and advanced planning, including linguistic help, people being told how to speak Israeli, to tell women to pull down their pants. There's been some testimony from people who were involved on the Hamas side that there was perhaps a religious waiver, a fatwa, that permitted them to violate traditional Muslim dictates against rape. All of this deserves examination and scrutiny, and really, it demands it, because, as Mimi says, if women aren't safe in Israel, then women aren't safe anywhere. If we can use justifications to blame individual victims, young women who were asleep in a kibbutz and here we're talking in some cases about teenage girls and younger. If we can blame women who were attending a concert for the policy seas of a nation that they may or may not have supported and used that to justify rape, women are not safe anywhere. So we need to begin to speak out more strongly than we have up until this point. Former U. S. Attorney Joyce Vance and District Attorney for New York's Westchester County, Mimi Roca. Thank you both very much for coming on this morning.

"No one is born hating... people must learn to hate", *Mandela* Download YouTube 2023-10-18 (#002) < Previous Next > Nelson Mandela once wisely said, "No one is born hating; people must learn to hate." It's perturbing to observe that some young children in Palestine are exposed to a narrative in their schools that encourages them to embrace violence, portraying martyrdom as a path to championing their cause by harming Jews. This narrative depicts Zionists as the enemy, urging both boys and girls from a young age to aspire to acts of violence, such as running over or stabbing Jews, in the belief that it will bring respect to Palestine. #TikvaInternational" Video Transcription: Coming soon

Getting Real: What Do Folks in Gaza Actually Think? Download YouTube 2023-12-27 (247) < Previous Next > An in-depth look into IDF Espionage Unit 504 Courtesy of Israeli channel N12 Video Transcription:

Hillel Neuer Testifies Before U.S. Congress on UNRWA Download YouTube 2024-01-31 (284) < Previous Next > Testimony by UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer in U.S. Congress Delivered, January 30, 2024, before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Global Human Rights and International Organizations, U.S. House of Representatives, Hearing on Examining UNRWA’s Mission and Failures. Video Transcription:

Who wants to free the people of Gaza? Download YouTube 2023-12-13 (206) < Previous Next > Credits: @ask_dani Video Transcription:

Israel action - analyzed by international law expert Download YouTube 2023-10-30 (#062) < Previous Next > Natasha Hausdorff, UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust Legal Director, is asked whether, as suggested by the BBC, Israel is punishing the Palestinians for the actions of Hamas and whether this is a commonly held view in the mainstream media in the UK. Natasha replies that the narrative of Israel committing war crimes or punishing ordinary Palestinians took hold along with blatant misrepresentations of international law. International lawyers and military experts therefore need to explain the realities of the situation and the law that applies. Israel's obligations in terms of provision of humanitarian aid: since 2007, Israel has supplied water, electricity, food and other humanitarian aid via the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel into Gaza despite Hamas' attempts to destroy Israeli infrastructure that supports those operations and its genocidal initiatives against the Jewish population. The Israeli support has stopped since the war broke out, and there is no international legal obligation for Israel to provide any supplies to Hamas. In fact Israel has no obligation to provide humanitarian aid at all. Israel's only obligation is to facilitate the provision of humanitarian aid by third parties, while ensuring that this aid will not be diverted to Hamas, which is impossible to guarantee but Israel is facilitating humanitarian aid nonetheless, and Hamas is continuing to exploit international aid for terrorism. The International Criminal Court, claiming to be independent and unbiased, is investigating Israel for alleged war crimes. One shameful incident happened when the prosecutor of the ICC travelled to the Rafah Crossing and tried to draw a moral equivalence to the atrocities of October 7th, which he called alleged war crimes, and the so-called Israeli war crimes, thus following a consistent practice of attributing an evil intent to Israel for which there is no evidence. Similar shameful statements emerged from the U.N. Secretary General, who tried to rationalize the attack. Video Transcription: Coming soon

Bernie Sanders on Israel response to Hamas Attacks Download YouTube 2023-11-10 (#103) < Previous Next > Senator Bernie Sanders doesn't see how you can have a ceasefire with a terrorist organization like Hamas which has caused turmoil and chaos and is calling for the destruction of the State of Israel. Everyody understands that Hamas must go! Video Transcription: Coming soon

Families in Iran have to live under threat of execution Download YouTube 2023-11-29 (#163) < Previous Next > Now you know the truth. We do not suffer fools. Now that our families in Iran have to live under threat of execution because of this death mob, there is no legal apparatus I will not use to bring every single person involved in this to justice. Shout out to the freedom fighters, the truth tellers, the Toomaj’s over the world who refused to be silent even in the face of the mob, while the radicals try to use the regime’s tactics to silence us from telling the truth and being their voice. Video Transcription: Coming soon

When you defend women’s rights, defend all the women. Download YouTube 2023-12-21 (232) < Previous Next > Someone called me an “extremist” because I spoke up for respect and protection for all women. I asked what extreme position they were specifically speaking about of course no response. Because there is none. What I said is that Jews are human beings. We can’t tolerate antisemitism. That Hamas is a terror organization. We must unequivocally condemn terrorisms. What I said is that when you say MeToo, it has to be about all women, also women from other political divides and women like the Jewish women who were raped on October 7 in Israel. When you defend women’s rights, defend all the women. If saying that all the women are equal and saying that anti-Semitism is unacceptable, is extremist, I don’t know how they call the real extremists. The problem is that when they call you extremist because you are having a free opinion, they put a target on you. And then the radical Muslims are going to try to kill you. This is what is happening in Europe and then nobody wants to speak. I refuse. Together, we must protect the Europe that we want for our children. Thank you very much and good luck. Assita Video Transcription: