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After public pressure, the network suppressed a report on a key voice in Israel’s Oct. 7 PR campaign whose lies about Hamas rapes and rescuing 750 hostages were cited by the U.N. and filmmaker Sheryl Sandberg. Wyatt Reed reports.

Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 has announced that it will no longer air an investigation into the fabrications of Rami Davidian, a settler who was lionized as a hero after claiming to have rescued over 750 Israelis at the Nova music festival on October 7 2023, following a major public pressure campaign.

“We are aware of the public’s feelings and the consequences of broadcasting the episode and prefer not to broadcast it at this time,” Channel 13 wrote in an April 4 statement.

A promotional video published by Channel 13 reporter Raviv Drucker on X the day before attracted hundreds of crude and expletive-filled comments from fanatical Israeli settlers, with the most-liked reply referring to Drucker as a “piece of shit” and accusing him of seeking to push Davidian to commit suicide.

Drucker defended the investigation in a post on X, stating that Davidian’s lies were “not slight exaggerations” like “mildly inflating the number of those rescued — absolutely not.” Instead, “these are stories made up from beginning to end. Hair-raising stories that never, ever occurred.”

One of the most explosive fabrications featured prominently in Sheryl’s Sandberg’s propaganda film, “Screams Before Silence,” which shows Davidian seemingly on the verge of tears in a wooded clearing in southern Israel as he declares: “these trees… I saw girls tied up to every tree here with their hands behind them.”

“Someone murdered then, raped them, and abused them, here on these trees. Their legs were spread.” As the camera displays a number of trees with rope tied around them by unknown actors, Davidian continues:

“Everyone who sees this knows right away that the girls were abused. Someone stripped them, someone raped them. They inserted all kinds of things into their intimate organs, like wooden boards, iron rods.”

“Over 30 girls were murdered and raped here. I had to close their legs and cover their bodies, so no one else would see what I saw. No one can see those kinds of things,” Davidian states, as a concerned-looking Sandberg leans in for a tearful hug.

Davidian’s fabrications were immediately embraced by legacy media outlets, with The New York Times’ Bret Stephens declaring in a glowing review of Sandberg’s propaganda film that “the refusal by so many people to acknowledge what happened, often accompanied by sneering derision, makes it necessary” to print his claims.

Less than two months after the Hamas attacks Davidian was already cashing in on his dubious stories by way of an international speaking tour, beginning with what the Adelson-funded Jewish News Syndicate described as “a series of gatherings and speaking opportunities in Miami and New York to describe the role he played as a civilian hero during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.” In New York, Davidian posed alongside Israel’s notoriously mendacious U.N. ambassador, Gilad Erdan.

The next year, Davidian embarked on a hasbara tour of U.S. college campuses, appearing at numerous events sponsored by Chabad, the far-right Jewish sect known for its virulent anti-Arab racism.

During one such event at Duke University, Davidian repeatedly claimed to have encountered the corpses of multiple naked women tied to trees at the site of the music festival. An Israeli woman live-translating for Davidian stated:

“He cried, he screamed, “Who? Who can do that?” He tried to untie the bodies and cover them. He did that for 20 minutes, then he had to continue… with his mission.”

Due to Channel 13’s last-minute move to axe their own report, the full extent of the lies told by Davidian may never be known . According to Drucker, that decision was made by the Israeli broadcaster’s CEO, Emiliano Kalamzuk, who hadn’t even seen the report when he decided to pull the plug.

According to Drucker, Kalamzuk stated that he was attending a wedding but would “try to shorten his stay there and go watch the [program]” then “talk in the afternoon after he had watched it.”

But the determination had apparently already been made.

“An hour later he wrote to me that the episode would not be broadcast and that his decision was final. Two minutes later a statement was issued to the media,” Drucker wrote.

As Israeli outlet Walla explained, “Drucker’s words raise the suspicion that the network’s CEO, Emiliano Kalamzuk, did not even watch the investigation before censoring it.”

Now that Channel 13’s report has been buried, the exact nature and quantity of Davidian’s fabrications remain unclear. What is clear, however, is that his colorful stories are having their intended effect. While happily participating in Israel’s public relations push to manufacture consent for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, the “heroic farmer” urged one Israeli podcast: “Wipe out Gaza, there’s nothing good about them.”

dominique:
Every accusation is a confession! For everything they've accused Palestinians of, they've done and doing worse! They lie, rape, kill and destroy; very odd behaviour for "God's chosen people". just this month, they killed 15 medic aid volunteers in Gaza and buried them in mass graves and also buried their vehicle. They tried to bury the story but thank God a phone was found on one of the victims detailing what exactly happened. They called it a "mistake" after they were exposed. Have many other "mistakes" have they buried over the years? How can soldiers pump over 100 rounds of bullets into innocent, unarmed civilians, then call it a mistake? And people are supporting this insanity?

Botragelad:
😂

dominique:
AIPAC paid agent, your sponsors can no longer supress and control the media like they used to. More and more eyes are opening to see who the blood thirsty, murderous psychopaths are claiming to be God's chosen people. Now we know who the REAL terrorists are

dominique:
AIPAC paid agent, your sponsors can no longer supress and control the media like they used to. More and more eyes are opening to see who the blood thirsty, murderous psychopaths are claiming to be God's chosen people. Now we know who the REAL terrorists are

DeepSight:
We will not see Zionist Terrorist and Apartheid supporters like the teenage Botragelad and the hypocrite Tctrills here.

tctrills:
You are right my boy. This is a thread for Hamas terrorists. This is the place for you so enjoy it.

k4kenny:
The criminal Davidian lies have been exposed since last year by Electronic Intifada. A nation that not only tells flagrant lies but suppresses investigative reports debunking lies.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TApiok-KiRc?si=nfzAXoE1iHyI2OM6

They lied about 40 beheaded babies.

They lied about burnt babies

They lied pregnant women whose baby was cut out.

The DID behead babies

They DID burn babies

The ran over a pregnant woman with their armored tanks until her dead fetus came out.

Every accusation is a confession.

Israhell is a stain on humanity.

DeepSight:
Pathetic.

Botragelad:
First off, "Palestine" is a fake identity, not a real thing. You’re out here crying on every post instead of reading up, proving you’ve got zero clue. Did Hamas hit Israel on October 7 or nah? Simple question.

By your logic, if Hamas accuses Israel of using human shields (which they do all the time), does that mean they’re admitting to strapping rockets to school buses or "civilian" homes?
We’ve been over this, Hamas literally turns hospitals into war zones with command centers and ammo dumps. Where was your outrage then? Meanwhile, Israel reviews its mistakes (even the weird ones), while Hamas stages drama and propaganda next to nurseries, dressed as medics.
Spot a “civilian” with a shady bulge under their jacket, what’s a soldier supposed to do?

Cry all you want, it changes nothing. Just thought I’d shut down the noise.

Botragelad:
First off, "Palestine" is a fake identity, not a real thing. You’re out here crying on every post instead of reading up, proving you’ve got zero clue. Did Hamas hit Israel on October 7 or nah? Simple question.

By your logic, if Hamas accuses Israel of using human shields (which they do all the time), does that mean they’re admitting to strapping rockets to school buses or "civilian" homes?
We’ve been over this, Hamas literally turns hospitals into war zones with command centers and ammo dumps. Where was your outrage then? Meanwhile, Israel reviews its mistakes (even the weird ones), while Hamas stages drama and propaganda next to nurseries, dressed as medics.
Spot a “civilian” with a shady bulge under their jacket, what’s a soldier supposed to do?

Cry all you want, it changes nothing. Just thought I’d shut down the noise.

Botragelad:
First off, "Palestine" is a fake identity, not a real thing. You’re out here crying on every post instead of reading up, proving you’ve got zero clue. Did Hamas hit Israel on October 7 or nah? Simple question.

By your logic, if Hamas accuses Israel of using human shields (which they do all the time), does that mean they’re admitting to strapping rockets to school buses or "civilian" homes?
We’ve been over this, Hamas literally turns hospitals into war zones with command centers and ammo dumps. Where was your outrage then? Meanwhile, Israel reviews its mistakes (even the weird ones), while Hamas stages drama and propaganda next to nurseries, dressed as medics.
Spot a “civilian” with a shady bulge under their jacket, what’s a soldier supposed to do?

Cry all you want, it changes nothing. Just thought I’d shut down the noise.

dominique:
Mr paid agent, you're the one crying all over the place, spewing the same balderdash over and over again, you're beginning to sound like a broken record. You better get more creative before your paymasters fire you. Palestine is an identity created by the British just like they did to Nigeria. The native population had always been there before they brought in the European marauders who started laying claims to the land. A land in the middle east does not belong to the middle east but to a bunch of central and eastern Europeans. Make it make sense!