Power Suits 27 May 2024
But such a video does not exist.
Baerbock was speaking at a so-called Democracy Festival in Berlin, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the federal republic’s constitution, when she was confronted by citizens protesting the government’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Trying to justify Germany’s complicity, Baerbock hit back with a dose of atrocity propaganda, claiming she had seen the nonexistent rape tape during one of her at least seven visits to Israel since 7 October 2023.
“I was shown the film, which was not recorded by me or the Israeli government but by Hamas fighters with their, what are they called, GoPro cameras on their helmets,” Baerbock asserted.
“And do you know what I saw there? It was the worst thing you can imagine,” the foreign minister claimed. “I watched it because I wanted to know, because I wanted to know what happened there. And to see a woman being raped on camera.”
“Do you want to interrupt me when I am speaking about women being raped, being raped on camera?” Baerbock scolded as the protests continued.
The exchange can be seen in the video at the top of this article, with English subtitles.
At least eight anti-genocide protesters were forcibly removed from the venue by security agents, according to the German news agency DPA, which failed to notice or report on Baerbock’s lie.
No sexual violence caught on camera
Since Israel began propagating the 7 October mass rape hoax, at no point has any official Israeli source claimed that a video exists of any rape in progress.
This was confirmed in an article in Haaretz last month.
“From inquiries put to three bodies in the defense establishment by Haaretz, it emerges that the intelligence material collected by the police and the intelligence bodies, including footage from terrorists’ body cameras, does not contain visual documentation of any acts of rape themselves,” the Tel Aviv newspaper stated.
The UN team headed by Pramila Patten also reviewed thousands of photos and videos provided by the Israeli government and concluded in its report published in March that “in the medicolegal assessment of available photos and videos, no tangible indications of rape could be identified.”
Despite the UN report’s pro-Israel biases, it also confirms that “no digital evidence specifically depicting acts of sexual violence was found in open sources.”
Yet the fake rape narrative remains an important touchstone for supporters of the Israeli genocide, allowing them to give a feminist justification and spin for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, where the most numerous victims of the killing and starvation campaign are women and children.
Nazi-like propaganda
It ought to be particularly shocking that a senior minister in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government would be using propaganda tactics familiar from the time of Adolf Hitler, his predecessor as German leader.
As the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum points out, Germany’s Hitler administration used lurid atrocity propaganda that “portrayed Jews as wandering cultural parasites, consumed by sex and money,” as “subhuman” and as “dangerous enemies of the Reich” in order to mobilize public support or acquiescence for the German government’s anti-Jewish persecution.
The Hitler government’s lies built on pre-existing anti-Semitic stereotypes, just as its successor in Berlin today led by Chancellor Scholz relies on widespread anti-Muslim bigotry to make its anti-Palestinian atrocity claims seem credible.
Baerbock’s lies should be seen in this context and should also be criminally investigated as incitement to genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
EU official spreads rape lies
In the complete absence of credible evidence to sustain Israel’s mass rape atrocity propaganda, pro-genocide Western officials have increasingly resorted to lying outright.
Last week, for instance, Israel released a video of five of its female soldiers being taken as prisoners of war by Hamas fighters on 7 October.
According to Reuters, the Israeli government “saw the release of the subtitled three-minute clip to national and international media as an opportunity to shore up support.”
Except the Israeli-provided subtitles were mistranslations, manipulations and fabrications apparently aimed at suggesting the captured soldiers were being taken as sex slaves – a lie eagerly pushed by pro-Israel Western media.
Even with these obvious distortions and mistranslations, it is clear that the video does not show anyone being raped, yet that did not stop Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Union’s “anti-Semitism coordinator,” putting her own false spin on it.“Today’s video of brutalized and raped Israeli women of 7 Oct is horrific,” the notoriously pro-Israel official claimed. “Knowing that some are still in the hands of their tormentors is sickening.”
Biden lies again
Note: This section contains very graphic images
US President Joe Biden, the chief arms supplier and enabler of Israel’s genocide, also continues to disseminate atrocity propaganda, claiming last week in a commencement address at Morehouse College that he saw “saw pictures of [Palestinians] tying a mother and a daughter in a rope, pouring kerosene on them, burning them and watching as they died.”
Since 7 October 2023, no photos or video of such an incident have ever been published or credibly reported to exist.
Biden’s latest fabrication is reminiscent of his false claim soon after 7 October that he had seen photos of Israeli babies beheaded by Palestinian fighters, a lie that the White House retracted at the time.This atrocity propaganda aimed at justifying and inciting support for Tel Aviv’s ongoing extermination campaign comes as Israel intensifies its attacks on Rafah, just days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its military assault on Gaza’s southernmost city.
The absolute horrors coming out of the attack include real images of burned bodies and beheaded children – Palestinian children beheaded by weapons undoubtedly provided by the United States or Germany.
German official admits Israeli crimes
That such atrocities are routinely taking place is known to the German government, as is unambiguously clear from comments made by Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck a day earlier.
“Of course, Israel must adhere to international law, and the famine, the suffering of the Palestinian population, the attacks in the Gaza Strip – as we are now seeing in court proceedings – are incompatible with international law,” Habeck said on Saturday. “That means, it is indeed the case that Israel has crossed the line there and it must not do that.”
Speaking of Israel’s ongoing assault on Rafah, Habeck asserted, “the federal government has said several times that this is wrong, that Israel is not allowed to carry out this attack, at least not in the way it did this in the Gaza Strip before: bombing refugee camps and so on.”Alongside the Biden administration, Germany has been Israel’s staunchest supporter from the start of the Gaza genocide, approving vast quantities of military sales to Tel Aviv.
Habeck’s belated reservations cannot cover up or mitigate Germany’s role in this genocide and in the atrocity propaganda that is fueling it.
Comments
They would not let go of this
Permalink Anonymous replied on
They would not let go of this propaganda 😮💨
why not?
Permalink Peter Purich replied on
Why would they let go of this? Because, lies and propaganda, that is all they have left!
"Lag BaOmer Rafah", real beheaded Palestinian infants, shallow graves popping around, etc. vs imaginary atrocity propaganda.
The real atrocity is 360 Baerbock. Germany - the West - is deranged, delusional, obscene.
genocide
Permalink Loam replied on
The accusations leveled at Hamas fighters, in addition to being malicious, are simply stupid. So you make a dangerous raid into enemy territory occupied by a powerful army. You have time for planned actions timed, and the threat and risk of being killed is constant. In these circumstances, stress is human and inevitable. Placing myself in such extreme circumstances, I ask myself: How is it possible to think, not only about having sex, but about anything other than fulfilling your mission and getting to safety? From the enemies of Palestine we can only expect violence, propaganda and lies.
Savages
Permalink Marilyn Shepherd replied on
The latest from the Australian foreign minister is pure Israeli talking points, human shields, blah,blah blah
false rape allegations against Resistance
Permalink Diarmuid Breatnach replied on
The Irish State, the government of which today "recognised the State of Israel", has been supporting the rape hoax propaganda. When its Attorney General added a complaint about the Israeli zionist state to the ICJ in late February, he repeated the rape hoaxes which had already been debunked.
At my request, Paul Murphy TD (parliamentary representative) asked in Leinster House (parliaent) whether that was the position of the Irish goverment and the response was that it is.
I have written a letter pointing out that this is a hoax being repeated in an international arena to the Irish Time and the Irish Examiner newspapers, neither of which published.
It is bad enough that the hoax was given credence in the first place but repeated and repeated after being debunked is intolerable. And that the mass media is unwilling even to publish a letter from a member of the public pointing out the hoax and its repitition by a representative of the State is enraging.
Add new comment