“Friends” star David Schwimmer blasted those who deny Hamas raped Jews during the terror group’s Oct. 7 surprise attack against Israel.
Schwimmer, who is Jewish, detailed his point of view in a Friday post on Instagram, noting that he served on the board of directors for the Rape Foundation for almost 20 years and has been an advocate for child and adult survivors of sexual violence for almost 30 years.
“One crucial aspect I learned early on about the healing process, and for justice to be served by the criminal offenders, is that the survivor be BELIEVED,” Schwimmer added.
More from his post:
Why do so many REFUSE TO BELIEVE — despite all the evidence on camera and in testimony — the women, children and men brutally assaulted by terrorists on Oct. 7th?
Where is their outrage?
In the weeks and months that followed, it became clear that their activism, their advocacy, is conditional.
They’ll fight like hell for ALL victims of sexual violence — unless they’re Jews.
Schwimmer added that for many of the deniers, it’s a “convenient way of avoiding compassion and personal responsibility.”
The “Friends” alum also linked to last week’s investigative story from the New York Times — “‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7” — as part of his Instagram post.
“Perhaps this article will finally make them realize they got it wrong and come to terms with their unconscious bias,” Schwimmer added.
In November, tech icon Sheryl Sandberg wrote a CNN op-ed that took the same route as Schwimmer’s Instagram post, saying the “silence on these war crimes is deafening.” In the wake of Sandberg’s piece, co-host of “The View” Whoopi Goldberg suggested that condemning Hamas’ rape and sexual assault of Israeli women could “exacerbate” the terror group’s fury amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Last month, NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo said he watched raw Oct. 7 video that showed Hamas “enjoyed mutilating” Jews and held their “heads and bloody corpses” as “trophies.”
Schwimmer also called the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “morally bankrupt” in early December amid their highly criticized congressional testimonies about anti-Semitism on their college campuses.
“Incapable of answering even the most direct ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions, watch them duck and smirk at the unbridled anti-Semitism and calls for genocide on their campuses. Where is the outrage among students, faculty, and alumni demanding their resignations, an official apology, and enforcement of the codes of conduct?” he asked. “Silence is complicity.”
Harvard’s President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday, although her exit came amid mounting plagiarism accusations. Penn’s President Elizabeth Magill resigned in early December, just days after her congressional testimony.
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What side doesn’t rape?
Can we move beyond simplistic identities such as “Jew” “white” “black” etc etc etc ad nauseaum.
Muslims were brutal in Jihad. Granted.
Catholic Inquisition was brutal against Cathars, New World Indians
Brits were brutal against Indian Indians
Epstein worked for Mossad to entrap and blackmail through rape, perversion.
Is child abuse “rape” of someone’s future? Is carpet bombing Gaza “rape?”
White slavery, gun running, drugs and porn have major centers in Israel.
Scumbags of all persuasions, races, ethnicities…live in every nation, sociopaths pretending to be patriots, but basically inhuman people in it for personal power, waving flags and spouting religious indignities when they are criminals. Tribal logic is simplistic.
And the Biden’s have abused the whole country acting like pimps to sell America 🇺🇸 and its values replacing them for fascist manifesto
Are you a humane sensitive person offended by the stronger abusing the weaker?
Did European “white” colonists rape and abuse the native Amerindians?
Remember: we call those colonists.
Did the Palestinians resent being colonized by foreign invaders and forced to leave their land brutally?
Might they still have lingering anger? Just as Jews recall Cossacks?
Where there is war and anger there is always rape.
Let’s not get started then on how many Jews feel about Ameleks and their right to rape and kill them all.
Maybe Schwimmer should leave Beverly Hills and his virtue signaling and take a walk through Gaza. Now THAT’S rape.
You are confused.
Did Hamas killed people and maybe beheaded some…..likely. Did they abused and treated women and children roughly? Possibly
Rape requires time and I do not think that the terrorists had that kind of time when attacking a heavily armed Israel and kibbutz to do much raping. I think their main goal was to kill and take hostages so they could be exchange for the women and children Israel kept hostage for months.
Considering than neither Jews or Hamas are to be trusted when it comes to this never ending battle, every piece of propaganda that comes out of that area should be taking with lots of salt.
Hey as shole the Nazi Muslim terrorists attacked a concert in
Open fields. Try getting your head out of your anus
Queers for Palestine support rapists of men. Everyone saw what happened to Ghadafi yeah? What makes you think that Hamas is not doing that kidnapped gay men? Sit down with analogies to the inquisition and Jihad like you are somehow above mob rage when you type alone on your phone or pc as a human capable of any level inhumanity that’s going on there. Fool. Conflate 1492 Europeans with a Muslim Terrorist organization in 2024 like you have the Birds Eye view on the totality of fear, loathing and conquest. We’re all dumber for your opinion.