I don't know why, but @jaketapper has never corrected his now demonstrably false reporting on 10/7 sexual violence. Instead, he's out here sharing a ludicrous post that calls Drop Site "terror propaganda" and a "fake news site denying that there were any rapes on 10/7." First of all, we don't say there were definitively zero. We say there is no credible evidence of any. Not a single independent investigation has turned up a single instance. If one eventually does, we will of course report it. Tapper himself led the charge on some of the worst reporting in a generation, reporting that was used to launch a genocide before falling apart under scrutiny. Tapper, for instance, gave prominent voice to a first responder who claimed to have seen evidence of two SAs in Kibbutz Be'eri. Those high-profile allegations, as we've reported, have since been conclusively shown to have been false and even the Israeli government and the NYT have retracted them, but Tapper has never corrected his piece or even addressed it. It's fundamental to journalism that if we make a mistake, we correct the record transparently. He refuses to do so. And once Bari Weiss is his boss, if the Gulf countries don't back out of the deal, he won't ever have to. He also relied heavily in his influential 2023 report on Shari Mendes, a volunteer at a morgue who infamously fabricated a horrifying crime, saying, "A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the mother was beheaded.” There is no dispute: that did not happen. She also made all manner of lurid claims to Tapper and others that were shown to be false later. He has never addressed this. The case he's citing here below has no corroboration and on the face of it stretches credulity. Tapper is sharing a post from a witness who claims several militants pulled a woman out of a car and "the terrorists sounded like they were drinking a cocktail at the beach. When they finished, they fired an RPG at her car and burned her." So according to Tapper here, the victim was put back in a car and after that, they fired an RPG at the car and burned it. Think about that. It's utterly preposterous. They fired an RPG at a woman in a car from point-blank range? Wouldn't that also blow them up too? And they did all this with IDF helicopters bearing down on them? It's an impossibly absurd scenario, but to Tapper it's conclusive proof. Tapper finds that not just credible, but credible enough to call another news outlet "fake news" and "terror propaganda." It's one thing for Jake never to correct his now-debunked reporting. It's another entirely to call us "terror propaganda" merely for honestly reporting on these claims. I assume he's just salty that The Free Press scooped him on the story of the century, Mamdani's wife's instagram likes. But not too late to host a segment on her!

There aren’t words strong enough to describe the cowardice and depravity of a “military” that will methodically execute medical workers, bury them in mass graves, and tell the NYT the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without lights on. These soldiers and their superiors are utterly depraved and a threat to all humanity. Before hiding the bodies in a mass grave, they forgot to grab the cell phone of one of the medics who recorded his own assassination for the world to see — if it cares. As the “soldiers” are nearing their vehicle, and the medic knows they will murder him, you can hear him saying: “Forgive us, everyone. Oh God, accept me as a martyr and accept my repentance. Oh mother, forgive me, this is the path I have chosen to help people.”

“The Free Press” was founded like just a few months ago on the premise that campuses had become too intolerant of diverse views, that “safe spaces” were a ridiculous construct to coddle feeble minds that couldn’t even hear dissenting views without suffering “harm,” and that this was all due to suffocating helicopter parents who shielded their children. The answer was to defend free speech against the hall monitors. Now they are saying this:

Remember how Israel posted multiple videos of brutalized Palestinian detainees “confessing” to r*pe on 10/7? And Sheryl Sandberg included those “confessions” in her documentary? And the White House screened and promoted the “documentary”? And the New York Times reported they had found evidence of the systematic use of sexual violence? Remember all that? It was all fabricated, and the goal was to justify a genocide, and now that the goal is within reach it can be safely discarded. Mission accomplished.