Rep. Jamaal Bowman ( D., N. Y. ) According to a film that Politico obtained in November, Hamas terrorists allegedly raped Israelis during the attacks on October 7th, calling them “propaganda.” After the channel reached out for post on Thursday, he reversed his position.  ,
” Propaganda was employed at the start of the battle. There is still no proof that children have been beheaded or that people have been raped. But they still keep using that lie]for ] propaganda”, Bowman said at a Nov. 17 pro- Arab protest, according to Politico writer Daniel Lippman on Tuesday, who found a TikTok videos showing the march.  ,
In a speech on Thursday, Bowman refuted Israel’s accusations of assault against Hamas. ” The U. N. confirmed that Hamas committed rape and sexual assault, a disgusting point that I condemn entirely”, Bowman said, referring to a United Nations report on March 4 confirming Hamas’s sexual assault. The New York Democrat before on Thursday, when contacted by Politico in person, declined to handle his November comment.  ,
In the U. N. statement, Pramila Patten, the group’s special agent on sexual assault in fight, wrote,” There are reasonable grounds to believe that many incidents of sexual assault took place with sufferers being subjected to murder and/or group assault and then killed or killed while being raped”.
The U. N. team even reported evidence of comparable sexual crimes against Jewish hostages after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, noting it is” clear and convincing information that physical violence, including rape, sexualized torture, violent, horrible, and degrading treatment has been committed against hostages”.
Bowman has not faced this situation before in the past. Bowman claimed in late January that he should n’t have written long-old blog posts about conspiracy theories surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11. The New York Democrat told CNN,” It’s obvious to everyone, especially the far-right MAGA Republicans I take on every day in Congress, that I will always stand up and fight against misinformation and harmful conspiracy theories.”
