Release the October 7th Video

Israel will not release the video without the consent of the devastated families of the butchered victims of the October 7th atrocities who have already made unimaginable sacrifices for our people. We call upon them again.

When then General Eisenhower first walked into a concentration camp, he said to the soldiers around him, “Start taking pictures. Start taking pictures – because someday some son of a bitch is going to try to say this never happened.”

How prescient.

The world must view the October 7th footage to understand viscerally and emotionally that the atrocity deniers are wrong.

In fact, just last month, at a gathering of top business leaders attending our Yale CEO Summit, we showed one of the first U.S. screenings of this video, which was painstakingly compiled and put together by the IDF. The purpose of this viewing was to follow the lead of those throughout history documenting the realities of heinous inhumanity still present in society, just as museums have chronicled past cruelty.–to bear witness and stop such carnage.

The body bags arrived first thing every morning for months. Some contain corpses, some only fragmentary remains, burned almost to ash. Another shipment usually comes before noon. The bloody massacre that killed 1,400 people in southern Israel, the yellow building that houses Israel’s government forensic laboratory is still inundated with unidentified remains. The bags line the morgue hallway, on gurneys and the floor, spilling into an outdoor courtyard, reported the Wall Street Journal.

Show the Video, Israel

It’s time for Israel to show the 47-minute video of the October 7 attack to the world.

By Michael E. Ginsberg, American Greatness, March 23, 2024

Across the globe, a critical mass of the ignorant, the brainwashed, the Islamist supremacists, and the evil is forming.Just consider what a massacre of Jews on October 7 launched:

• Downtown London has become a no-go zone for Jews every weekend.
• Jewish teachers have been being chased by frenzied student mobs through the halls of New York schools.
• Jewish university students have been barricaded in auditoriums and libraries by braying mobs.
• Synagogues and Jewish hospitals in the US and Canada have become the targets of screaming protesters.
• Jewish-owned restaurants and businesses have been vandalized, and their patrons have been threatened with violence.
• Jewish artists have had their shows cancelled or protested.
• Rallies featuring Nazi imagery and celebrating the events of October 7 have taken and continue to take place in Times Square and on the streets of New York City.

And all this has been in response to a genocidal attack on Jews on October 7.

October 7 was the final crank of a jack-in-the-Pandora’s-box of Leftist and Islamist antisemitism that has been bubbling under the surface for years.

The Hamas pogrom of October 7 is no longer just an existential threat to the Jewish state. It is an existential threat to every nation in the civilized world. And the civilized world, from academia to politicians to law enforcement, has proven incapable of or unwilling to forcefully stamp this evil out.

Which is why Israel must do what few others in power are able or willing to do: directly confront the global protesters, those who demand a ceasefire to let Hamas win and live to massacre another day, and those spineless politicians and academic administrators who appease the radicals, with what it is they all are supporting.

No more pairing “antisemitism” with “Islamophobia.” No more uncritically believing stories about alleged IDF or Jewish settler atrocities to balance the scales and provide a “both sides do it” relief valve for those who side with Hamas.

Israel rightly has been sensitive in how it has shown the 47-minute video of Hamas’s October 7 atrocities—a video comprised of footage taken by the Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians and “journalists” themselves. Those Hamas butchered on film are parents, children, siblings, extended family, and friends. Every person who has seen the video has been deeply shaken, saying it is far worse that they imagined it would be.

But the Jewish people—and if history is any guide, the world—is lurching toward yet another catastrophe as waves of pathologically antisemitic and anti-Western immigrants crash over the West, finding support among progressive leftist radicals in politics, academia, and media.

As pressure mounts on Israel to desist from its just and righteous war, it must remind the world how precisely this war began. What the Hamas barbarians and the Gazan civilians who followed them into Israel did on October 7.

Force the Squad, the maladjusted kids taking over campuses, and the sympathetic or cowardly administrations of America’s universities to confront it all. Just as Eisenhower marched German civilians through the concentration camps after American forces liberated them to confront the evil done in their name.

Force the Islamists and their fellow travelers screaming at synagogues in New Jersey and Jewish hospitals in Canada and taking over European capitals every weekend to watch Hamas burn children alive, throw hand grenades into safe houses, and shoot point-blank teenagers begging for their lives. Just as American authorities forced German civilians into movie theaters to watch footage of what the Nazis had done.

Force UN Women, the #MeToo “Believe All Women” hypocrites, and the Code Pink ghouls to watch Hamas barbarians rape women, murder pregnant women, and sexually mutilate female corpses.

If the axis of international progressive leftist goblins wants to continue to back Hamas and demand Israel end its righteous war of self-defense, let them do it knowing the world has seen with its own eyes what they support and celebrate.

If the Squad still wants to defend and run interference for Hamas in Congress after the world has seen the video, let them. A fully informed world will better see them for the gargoyles that they are.

If the kids and faculty on campus still want to demand Israel let Hamas survive and to harass Jews on campus to make their point, let the world know what it is they are demanding Israel allow to happen again. A world that sees these protests after seeing the video will far better understand the violence, death, and barbarity inherent in the academic left’s cracked DEI-driven oppressor/oppressed worldview.

If the Democrats in Congress, including Majority Leader Schumer, still think a Palestinian polity capable of the barbarity of October 7 deserves a state and that Israel should accept such a state, let them make that argument after everyone in the world has seen with their own eyes these horrors. And let the world see them willing to make this argument after they know the world has seen these horrors.

It is no longer enough for Israel to show the October 7 video to journalists, governments, and other select audiences. Everyone must see what Hamas and the Gazan civilians who followed Hamas into Israel did on October 7 and the glee and sheer ecstasy they brought to their butchery.

We know it works. Postwar Germans, confronted with the images of the Nazi camps, recoiled in horror and vigorously expunged antisemitism from the public square. To this day, Germany aggressively enforces legal protections against antisemitism. Germany, admirably, has taken the admonition of “never again” seriously.

Once again, the Jews are the fire bell in the night. Once again, the Jewish people have been thrust into the unwanted role of victims of deadly ideologies that make no secret of their desire to inflict on the world what they first inflicted on the Jews. Once again, Jews are forced to make terrible choices: hide the video to protect the victims and their families, or show the video to prevent untold numbers of victims to come.

The time has come, Israel. Release the October 7 video to the world.

Related:

• Palestinian Female TV Host: “It’s Beautiful. We Give Birth To So Many Children So We Can Push Them to Death”
• October 7th: A Day That Will Live In Infamy
• UNRWA Staff Recordings Prove Hamas Treated Young Women ‘Like Animals’
• Hamas didn’t just gang-rape, they forced the families to watch. Most rape victims of Hamas on October 7 were killed either before or during rape; several victims’ genitals were mutilated beyond recognition.
• BEATEN, TORTURED: Bloodied Faces of Karina, 19, Daniela, 19 Agam, 19 Liri, 18 Hamas Hostages
• WATCH: Palestinian Civilians Laughed While They Raped and Butchered Israelis
• Released Hostage Mia Schem: “There Isn’t a Single Innocent Person in Gaza, They Just Don’t Exist”
• Murdered Hostage Had Broken Jaw, Gouged Out Eye, Missing Fingers
• The Rape, Butchering of Israeli Women
  Report: Over 450 UNRWA Teachers Participated in Oct. 7 Massacre
• Hostage HORRORS: Israeli Doctor Treating Released Hostages Suffering From “Unprecedented Level of Extremely Severe Abuse,” “We Have to Rewrite the Textbooks of Post-Trauma”
• Depravity that defies comprehension: Women raped – whether alive or dead. Others tortured until every organ was removed. The horrifying accounts of Hamas ‘rape genocide’ that left survivors so traumatised some have taken their own lives
• Hamas terrorists had ‘a thing with sexual organs’ and targeted genitalia of Israeli victims: UN testimony
• WITNESS TESTIMONY: Palestinian Terrorists Cut Breasts Off Jewish Women While Still Alive and Convulsing in Pain After Gang-Raping Them
• US Official: Hamas Won’t Release More Women Because They Reveal Monstrous Sex Crimes
• Hamas Raped and Sexually Mutilated Men As Well as Women During October 7 Atrocities
• Women Held Hostage by Hamas in Gaza Kept in Cages
• “THEY FAILED US”: Women’s Organizations SILENT as Shocking Scale of Hamas’s Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women Becomes Horrifyingly Clear
• Rape Jihad: Hamas Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women Follows Islamic Doctrine
• What they did to the bodies of Jewish women…..
• Horrific New Stories of Hamas Atrocities in Israel Surface, Including Rape of ‘Beautiful Woman with Face of Angel’ Who Screamed To Be Killed
• Israeli Morgue: ‘Evidence of mass rape so brutal that they broke their victims’ pelvis – women, grandmothers, children.’ ‘People whose heads have been cut off. Faces blasted off. Heads smashed and their brains spilling out. A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the mother was beheaded’