As an international collective of feminist academics, writers, and lawyers, we offer the following critical analysis of claims made in the New York Times article “‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7,” published December 28, 2023. While this article is presented as the result of an extensive investigation, our research demonstrates that its arguments are not only unfounded, but rely on non-credible witnesses, including unreliable first-responder and IDF testimony. Despite the flimsiness of the given evidence, we debated whether addressing specific claims was the best way to proceed. . . .

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