⭕️ Joe Scarborough used the eve of Wisconsin’s Democratic primary to deliver a fact-free, 10-minute smear of Hasan Piker, Francesca Hong, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and the DSA, built on butchered quotes, shameless distortions, and Hamas rape allegations no major human rights organization has been able to verify. Here is everything he got wrong. 1. “Pro-Hamas rallies the day after 10/7” Scarborough, referring to Democratic candidate for NY-13 Darializa Avila Chevalier and DSA co-char Megan Romer, said people supported going “to pro-Hamas rallies the day after Hamas slaughtered more Jews than on any day since the Holocaust.” The framing is entirely his own. The demonstrations he’s pointing to were Palestinian solidarity gatherings that Avila Chevalier said she attended because she expected Israel to attack Gaza indiscriminately and disproportionately. By October 8, 2023 — “the day after” — Israel’s military said it had already bombed some 800 sites in Gaza, a geographic area smaller than New York City, with the IDF military spokesman calling entire cities “nests of terror.” By late Sunday, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 413 Palestinians killed and more than 2,300 wounded. People marching on October 8 were reacting, in real time, to bombs already falling on one of the most densely populated places on earth. But Scarborough presents them as celebrating a massacre. 2. The 10/7 rape claims & the blood-soaked history Scarborough leans hardest on sexual violence, chastising the left for ignoring “women getting raped” on October 7, and to describe those questioning atrocity claims as beyond the pale. The accusation of rape has been used for centuries to dehumanize people of color and justify their mass killing. Enslaved and later free Black men were lynched by the thousands on the strength of unproven rape allegations. Evidence-free claims of rape and mass rape were broadcast by Scarborough and MSNOW as settled fact immediately after 10/7, and it helped justify a campaign that has now killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded nearly 175,000, including over 21,000 children. Together that is more than one in ten people in Gaza killed, wounded, or permanently maimed. The “Black brute” myth, the pretext for Rosewood and countless other massacres, the Emmett Till lie: unverified sexual-violence claims work because they short-circuit scrutiny. To ask for evidence is made to appear as one is defending the crime. That is exactly the function these claims served after October 7 when they were deployed in the war’s opening weeks to pre-justify Israel’s genocidal response. Scarborough and MSNOW have not yet told their audience that no major human rights body has confirmed a single instance of rape on October 7. Not the Independent International Commission of Inquiry, the UN’s highest-standing investigative mechanism on the conflict. Not Amnesty International. Not Human Rights Watch. None has confirmed it. The one UN document routinely cited as “proof” — the March 2024 mission led by Pramila Patten — was, by her own explicit acknowledgement, “neither intended nor mandated to be investigative in nature.” The UN’s own special representative on sexual violence in conflict has since acknowledged publicly that no human rights organization has confirmed rape occurred that day. 3. What Hasan Piker actually said. Scarborough’s most incendiary charge was that someone said “a woman being raped doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things” — clearly aimed at Piker, whose “it doesn’t matter if rapes happened on October 7th” clip has become the single most-circulated attack line against him, cited by Ritchie Torres, the ADL, and Dana Bash on CNN. The 17-second clip is severed from all context. In the full segment, Piker was arguing against a viewer who was pushing the hypothesis that Israeli former captives describing sexual assault had been coerced by their government into lying. 1/2 CONTINUES BELOW ⬇️ @ScarboroughNow

“Boomers and their emotional-support apartheid state.” Hasan Piker tore into Joe Scarborough after the MS NOW host delivered a misinformation-packed rant this morning demanding Democrats distance themselves from Piker while grossly misrepresenting his remarks. “You should be apologizing, you f-cking baboon,” Piker said. “You should be apologizing every day on your hands and knees for justifying a genocide, for continuing to justify it, and for defending Israel.”