Prime Dem congressmen name out Biden for omitting Hamas rapes from sex-violence reality sheet

Two high Democratic congressmen have known as out President Biden for omitting rapes dedicated by Hamas terrorists from a latest White Home reality sheet on worldwide sexual violence.

Jewish Reps. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Dan Goldman (NY) wrote in a letter Wednesday that they needed “to specific our deepest concern” about the truth that the unspeakable Hamas sexual violence had been left off the June 17 reality sheet on the “Biden-Harris Administration’s Actions to Deal with Battle-Associated Sexual Violence.”

“Given the proof of those horrific incidents, the brutal and harsh sexual violence dedicated by Hamas should not be omitted from the White Home’s Truth Sheet,” the pols stated.

“The Administration and Congress must not ever lose sight of Hamas’ sexual violence in opposition to Israel or give Hamas particular dispensation in searching for accountability for its actions,” their letter stated.

The congressmen famous that the very fact sheet touted how the Biden administration has carried out “sanctions based mostly on atrocities in opposition to ladies in Ukraine, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Iraq, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria” — however failed to say Israel.

“Clearly lacking from this checklist of victims are the ladies who skilled sexual violence on October 7, 2023, on account of the brutal assault by Hamas in opposition to Israel,” Goldman and Schiff stated.

The Biden administration has imposed sanctions in opposition to individuals on the Battle-Associated Sexual Violence checklist — together with some sick perpetrators nicely after the Hamas assault — however no Hamas terrorists have been included, which the congressmen stated ought to be rectified.

The pair cited “substantial proof” of terrorists raping Israeli ladies in the course of the assault — together with a United Nations report from the Workplace of the Particular Consultant on Sexual Violence in Battle.

That report prompted “Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) — who misplaced his Democratic main race on Tuesday to pro-Israel candidate George Latimer — to apologize for initially denying the rapes as “propaganda.”

Fellow “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (R-Mich.) in February was the one member of the US Home of Representatives who declined to vote for a decision condemning the rape and sexual violence that Hamas leaders ordered members of the fear group to hold out.

The Home decision additionally faulted the United Nations for being “sluggish to sentence” the “brutal actions” of the jihadists.

In the course of the June announcement of the very fact sheet, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke out concerning the Hamas rapes and talked about the documentary “Screams Earlier than Silence,” which recounts how ladies’s our bodies have been “discovered bare from the waist down, palms tied behind their again and shot within the head” on the web site of the Nova music competition in Re’im, Israel.

Different eyewitness testimonies, photographic proof and forensic medical models have corroborated the horrific particulars — together with cases of genital mutilation and damaged pelvises.

Harris had additionally referenced a gathering with an Israeli lady who was taken hostage by Hamas after the assault and topic to sexual violence throughout her captivity in Gaza.

Biden, 81, has confronted opposition from hundreds of Muslim and Arab American voters in crucial swing states over his help for Israel throughout its greater than eight-month struggle with Hamas within the Gaza Strip.

The grassroots campaigns have known as for main voters to “abandon Biden” and designate their ballots as “uncommitted” — highlighting the stakes of the rift within the Democratic Occasion over the difficulty.

However the president has additionally confronted backlash from Jewish American voters for undermining Israel’s authorities and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of their makes an attempt to get rid of Hamas — together with with a pause positioned on some US weapons shipments.

Public polling, even in deep blue states reminiscent of New York, exhibits Jewish voters are demonstrating a a lot greater diploma of help for former President Donald Trump than within the 2020 election.

The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.