RNZ is reporting on Israeli sexual violence towards Palestinians, but deliberately not reporting on Palestinian sexual violence towards Israelis

By Lucy Rogers

Recently I wrote a Kiwiblog post about a major report on mass rape committed by Hamas on October 7 2023 which RNZ (and every other New Zealand news media outlet) were made aware of via a press release and knowingly refused to report on: https://www.civilc.org/silenced-no-more That is despite the avalanche of evidence (including 10,000 photos, 1800 hours of footage, and eyewitness testimony from over 400 witnesses) that Hamas engaged in pre-meditated mass rape as a weapon of warfare on October 7 2023, and despite the fact that RNZ ordinarily reports on anything Israel-related on practically a daily basis (and I provided a large number of examples proving that).

But despite that, only two weeks later RNZ has just reported on the fact that Israel was just added to a “sexual violence blacklist” by the UN for alleged sexual violence committed against Palestinians: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/596787/un-places-israel-and-russia-on-sexual-violence-blacklist

Even if the number of Israeli sexual assaults of Palestinians were remotely on the scale of Hamas’ sexual assaults of Israelis (of which there is no evidence) the hypocrisy is sickening. RNZ will report on sexual violence committed by Israelis but not on sexual violence committed by Palestinians.

Selective condemnation of sexual assault is evil.