“I claim responsibility for the Israeli crimes against humanity because I am an American and American monies made these atrocities possible,” the poet and activist June Jordan wrote in 1982. “I claim responsibility [...] because, clearly, I have not done enough to halt heinous episodes of holocaust and genocide around the globe. I accept this responsibility and I work for the day when I may help to save any one other life, in fact. I believe that you cannot claim a people and not assume responsibility for what that people do or don’t do. You cannot claim to be human and not assume responsibility for the value of all human life.”

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Print issue Vol. I . . . No. 4: MEDIA MANUFACTURES CONSENT FOR GENOCIDE

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The New York War Crimes Vol. I . . . No. 4 (January 12, 2024).

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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