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Under public pressure, an Israeli network censored a report which would have exposed a key face of Israel’s October 7 PR campaign as a fabulist. Rami Davidian claimed to have rescued over 750 young Israelis and witnessed hideous scenes of rape by Hamas. His bogus testimonies were cited by the UN and filmmaker Sheryl Sandberg.
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One of the most explosive fabrications featured prominently in Sheryl’s Sandberg’s propaganda film, “Screams Before Silence,” which shows Davidian seemingly on the verge of tears in a field in southern Israel as he declares: “these trees… I saw girls tied up to every tree here with their hands behind them.”

“Someone murdered then, raped them, and abused them, here on these trees. Their legs were spread.” As the camera displays a number of trees with rope tied around them by unknown actors, Davidian continues: “Everyone who sees this knows right away that the girls were abused. Someone stripped them, someone raped them. They inserted all kinds of things into their intimate organs, like wooden boards, iron rods.”

“Over 30 girls were murdered and raped here. I had to close their legs and cover their bodies, so no one else would see what I saw. No one can see those kinds of things,” Davidian states, as a concerned-looking Sandberg leans in for a tearful hug.

Davidian’s fabrications were immediately embraced by legacy media outlets, with The New York Times’ Bret Stephens declaring in a glowing review of Sandberg’s propaganda film that “the refusal by so many people to acknowledge what happened, often accompanied by sneering derision, makes it necessary” to print his claims. The day before, an op-ed in the Washington Post cited Davidian’s false testimony to insist that compared to the “the terrible damage inflicted on the civilian population in Gaza,” the “violence described in Sandberg’s documentary… occupies a different plane of calculated cruelty — indeed, of evil.” [MORE]:

https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/israeli-network-censors-report-exposing