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[–] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like it was the BBC that had omitted the context in the original headline. If anything this highlights how wild it is that Reddit titles still can’t be edited

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The only reason I can think of for that rule is to prevent people from posting something that's very agreeable and then changing it to something terrible once it has thousands of upvotes, and making it look like many people support the terrible statement.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Despite the BBC their extreme pro-Israel bias they never report these titles without sneakily shoving the claim on a third party so they can absolve themselves of their lies.

    According to web archive this is the first title but it had been taken a while after the fact.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250708132132/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mz8gxzg82o

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I mean, it’s pretty standard for newsrooms to report who is making a claim. I read Reuters stories all the time that quote TASS (Russian news agency) without verifying the veracity of the report. I can’t recall a time the reports didn’t say something akin to “Reuters cannot verify the accuracy of the claim at this time”

    Def not cool of the BBC to originally bury the source of the claim in the headline though. Thats bad reporting.

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  • [+] 29 points 1 year ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    "Hamas has denied its forces committed sexual violence against women or mistreated female hostages.

    However, a UN mission concluded in March 2024 that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attack in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape, and that there was "convincing information" that hostages had been subjected to sexual violence, including rape and sexualised torture." Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mz8gxzg82o

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    One really, really important caveat here is that, The report said that "despite concerted efforts to encourage" victims to come forward, the team was unable to interview any of them. The UN mission was able to review reports, photos, and videos all provided by the Israeli gov't, but couldn't find a single victim willing to go on the record.

    That's really, really fuckin' suspicious. If the sexual violence was systematic, the way that the Israeli gov't claims, how is it that not even one person is willing to personally talk about it with a UN team?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This is not a mandated UN mission. Simply a visit from a propagandist. It is like calling statements from Francesca Albanese "undeniable evidence."

    But even the Patten report, no matter how much it tried to obscure it, concluded there was no evidence of any rape except "anonymous witnesses". Which it did not verify because Israel blocked it. Patten is literally repeating statements the IDF and Israeli newspapers. Nothing more.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Im sure it happened and thats fucking horrible, but what Israel (and the headline) is claiming, is that it was everywhere and part of hamas orders. In reality, according to the number of verifiable reports, it was no more than rape cases in every other invasion elsewhere.

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  • [+] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Its infinitely unlikely that there were zero rape cases. Where there is war and men, there is rape. This has been true for thousands of years. Its just nowhere near as big of a widespread issue as Israel makes it out to be.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Rape does not happen during a raid. It happens after a raid. The notion that men will raid a place and start raping people while helicopters are shooting at them is ludicrously stupid.

    If any rape had happened it would have happened to captives. Which it did not. Because Hamas is not a genocidal rape cult like the IDF.

    Screaming rape about Hamas is straight blood libel against Palestinians.

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
    [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    Israeli experts in using sexual violence as a genocidal strategy, eh?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    lol I just got banned for commenting in this thread. Not sure what I even said but presumably for criticizing the IDF’s war crimes. The mods there are unhinged.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Worldnews is the most astroturfed pro-Israel subreddit in the entire site. Anything that talks about Israel-Palestine has hundreds of Mossad trolls working overtime. The only time you'll see a post in Worldnews being anti-Israel is if the thing being talked about is so damn egregious that the trolls can't brute force positivity on it. Like the time when someone revealed Israel was using AI to target people and that it was acceptable to kill 100 civilians to get rid of one senior Hamas member.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I got a ban from there after being confronted by a /pol/ troll. One of the ones that attacks things they don't like as being Indian. They said something about them needing to be genocided. I called them a nazi. That was the reason for the ban.

    So that's why I'm pretty sure the mods of subreddit are basically /pol/. I think that whole subreddit is a front for controlling narratives.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Am I the only one who wonder about a Hamas "genocidal" strategy? That they wish they could kill all Israelis, no doubt, but "genocidal strategy"?

    Are we supposed to believe they thought they would get all Israelis on Oct 7th or something??

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They do not with to kill all Israelis. Where did you get this ridiculous claim from?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

    The original 1988 Hamas covenant, which has never been revoked officially, literally quotes a Muslim scholar?

    Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Israelis

    Israel

    Are these the same word or are these different words?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Usage of the word "obliteration" denotes images of peaceful protests and systematic dismantling in you?

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I think there is a small typo in this title of about six letters

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