Holocaust scholars recognise a sadly familiar pattern in October 7 denial, but are shocked at how quickly it set in.
Not long after the war began, three women went to their local member of parliament to register their dismay about Gaza. The women were aged in their late 20s or early 30s. One was a lawyer, another worked for a design firm. One wore a keffiyeh draped around her shoulders.to target his electoral office and staff, offered a considered response. He too, was appalled at the deaths of innocent Palestinians and acknowledged the terrible history of oppression of people who live on the Gaza Strip.
Palmach saw things that day he will never forget. People shot in the head. Bodies of dead women, stripped half naked. Burnt corpses. “I felt like I was in zombie land,” he says.He remembers a moment late in the day, as the kibbutz was wreathed in smoke and he was lying in the scrub pinned down by Palestinian gunmen who’d taken control of a farm building. It occurred to him then, that even if he survived to bear witness, some people would never believe him.
Reasonable attempts to confirm facts about October 7 are not denial, Smith says. Rather, it is the attempt to obscure, distort and misrepresent the deadliest day in Israel’s history. Smith is a former executive director of the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, an organisation founded by Hollywood director Steven Spielberg to record and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. He worked with Palmach and Ben-Moshe on, a sequence of short, virtual reality films that tell the story of October 7 through the eyes of five survivors.
That Saturday morning, they found mostly women, children and the elderly. They shot dead their youngest victim, nine-month-old Mila Cohen, in the arms of her mother. They killed four members of the same family – a mother, father and two teenage sons – while two younger children, aged 11 and 8, survived by hiding beneath the bodies of their dead family. They murdered 105 Be’eri residents and abducted a further 30.
Mary Kostakidis, a former SBS newsreader and trusted face of public broadcasting, shared this conspiracy theory with her more than 28,000 followers on X. “The suggestion Israel knew but allowed it to go ahead in order to provide a reason to obliterate Gaza and an impetus for war with Iran can’t be dismissed out of hand,” she wrote on October 10.
Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, during a heated television exchange with journalist Piers Morgan this week, accused Israelis of telling “disgusting, filthy lies” about October 7 and declared there was no evidence that women were raped.
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