How much more of a laughingstock does Guterres want the UN to become?
Competing in the antisemitism sweepstakes along with Francesca Albanese, Roger Waters, Ye, Guy Pearce, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes, is a UN official of whom you may not have heard until now. She is Reem Alsalem, who is the UN Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls. So you would think, given her job, that she would. take a keen interest in identifying and publicizing examples of such violence, especially of rape. But that turns out not to be the case. Instead, Reem Alsalem has denied that any rapes occurred when Hamas smashed into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, despite the evidence of eyewitnesses, photographs, corpses of raped girls and women, and the proud boasts, which some of the rapists themselves recorded on their phones when they telephoned their families and friends in Gaza about what they had done. More on this grisly tale that Reem Alsalem refuses to accept can be found here: “Over 300 rabbis, Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied October 7 rapes,” by Grace Gilson, JTA, December 3, 2025:
Over 300 Jewish leaders, including women’s rights advocates and rabbis, urged the United Nations on Tuesday to remove Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women and girls, for denying that rape occurred during Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
The letter, which was addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, came two weeks after Alsalem claimed in a post on X that “No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.”…
Many people, including non-Israelis and non-Jews, have been shown the carnage at the kibbutzim. They saw the remains of families whose members had been tied together with wire, and then burned alive. They saw the bodies of women whose breasts had been sliced off before they were killed, and the bodies of men, their genitalia sliced off and their eyes gouged out. They saw the corpses of women and girls who had been raped, and then were stabbed to death as they were being raped. They saw other corpses of girl soldiers, who had been raped and then been stabbed or shot in their vaginas.
This evidence of rape and mass rape has been accepted and reported on all over the world. In two UN reports, not by Reem Alsalem, the evidence of “rape and gang rape” at the kibbutzim, and in the fields where the Nova Music Festival had been held, was considered to be convincing. --->READ MORE HERE
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The letter’s signatories include several leading rabbis as well as former antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt.
Over 300 Jewish leaders, including women’s rights advocates and rabbis, urged the United Nations on Tuesday to remove Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women and girls, for denying that rape occurred during Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
The letter, which was addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, came two weeks after Alsalem claimed in a post on X that “No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.”
In the letter, its signatories express their “horror and outrage” at Alsalem’s rhetoric, and cite two UN reports from March 2024 and July 2025 that concluded that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe that sexual violence had taken place during the attacks in "multiple locations, including rape and gang rape.”
The petition was organized by Amy Elman, a professor at Kalamazoo College who has authored books on antisemitism and state responses to sexual violence, and Rafael Medoff, the director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. It was shared with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency soon after being sent to Guterres.
Hundreds of Jewish leaders call for Alsalem's removal
“The targeted sexual abuse of Israelis by Hamas and its supporters is one weapon in the arsenal of those seeking Israel’s obliteration,” Elman said in a statement. “It’s outrageous that deniers such as Reem Alsalem are aiding and abetting the sexual violence by claiming it never happened. These apologists should be ashamed of themselves.”
The letter’s signatories include Deborah Lipstadt, the former antisemitism envoy; Judith Rosenbaum, the head of the Jewish Women’s Archives; Rabbi Irving Greenberg, the former chairman of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Rabbi Deborah Waxman, the president of Reconstructing Judaism; and Hebrew College president Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld.
Dispute over whether sexual violence took place as Hamas murdered about 1,200 people in Israel on October 7 has solidified as a point of sustained interest for some of Israel’s staunchest critics who allege that Israel and its supporters are using claims of rape as propaganda. --->READ MORE HERE
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