Anat Schwartz and Adam Sella, the NYT’s assigned helpers for Jeffrey Gettleman’s “Hamas mass rape” hoax article, coerced a source into providing video by insisting their participation would aid Israel’s hasbara efforts
That’s according to the source in an interview with Israel’s YNet
עדן וסלי, בעלת שני מוסכים באשדוד, היא מי שסיפקה ל"ניו־יורק טיימס" את אחת הראיות המשמעותיות ביותר בתחקיר על פשעי המין של החמאס: התמונה של גל עבדוש ז"ל. בריאיון היא מספרת איך נכנסה לאזור צבאי סגור בחיפוש אחרי חברה שנחטפה ועל ההתמודדות עם היעלמות של אדם קרוב בפעם השנייה בחייה: אביה הוגדר כנעדר במשך...
www.ynet.co.il
But what did the video show? It depicted the body of Gal Abdush, the so called “girl in the black dress” who was found killed next to her destroyed car, with burns on her head, in a small dress with obvious signs of rigor mortis.
Those determined to push the Hamas rape hoax - including Gettleman, Schwartz, and Sella - willfully misinterpreted the video to claim that Abdush had been violated by Palestinian militants
Abdush’s sister and brother in law both publicly stated that she was not raped, that such an act would have been impossible under the circumstances, and that the NYT manipulated her family into participating in the article without even knowing of its incendiary angle
In a follow up article apparently prompted by an internal staff uproar at the NYT, Gettleman phoned Abdush’s sister, Miral Alter, and seemingly attempted to pressure her into withdrawing her complaint
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-sexual-violence-un.html
Gettleman and his team also returned to other sources who had been exposed for inconsistent or demonstrably bogus testimony to solicit more information. He turned up nothing new. In fact, one source who changed his story multiple times, Raz Cohen, refused to speak to Gettleman on the grounds that he was too traumatized.
Besides gathering a collection of bogus testimonies from dubious supposed witnesses who were never vetted for credibility, Gettleman, Schwartz and Sella have demonstrated shocking levels of journalistic malpractice during and since their investigation which should result in the retraction of their comprehensively debunked article and serious professional consequences.
Mike
