Sheryl Sandberg
speaker
230 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2024
last heard 23 Mar
Sheryl Sandberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And she told me she's speaking out because there are still hostages there. But she is the only living witness to speak out. We think there are a few more who are in deep trauma, but there were twelve hundred people killed and at least dozens of them were sexually brutalized, assaulted. And that is why they're not speaking out.
They're trying to accomplish their narrative that October 7th was justified resistance.
Yes. Even they don't believe, and it's interesting, Hamas has been proudly talking about who they killed, but even they deny the sexual violence. That wouldn't happen. It's against our religion. The sexual violence doesn't fit the narrative.
But I want to be clear, the sexual violence was multiple locations, systematic, meets the definition of a war crime, a crime against humanity, and was part of the plan.
I mean, it is such an important question. There were not rape kits done. 1,200 people killed in one day. I don't, anyone was, people, their bodies were burned. People were trying to identify them. I've actually looked into this a bunch. And in a lot of sexual violence in war situations, there are no rape kits. So that's actually, sometimes they're used, but often in chaos, there is none.
There are very few pictures. There are some, and I saw them in this documentary, and they are, sorry, they are, naked women with nails in their groin. I'm sorry, I saw these pictures. But what's interesting about it is the people who are the first responders are taught not to take pictures, particularly of gruesome things. They don't have the victims' rights.
But the man I interviewed, he said 24 hours in, he thought to himself, no one's gonna believe this, I gotta take pictures. And against the training he had, he took the pictures and he showed me on his phone, he was like, I took this. And another guy from Zaka, they're a first responder group that goes in. This is an unheard of situation.
I mean, I said to him, you've been processing, sorry, maybe that's not the right word. You've been, I guess, processing dead bodies all over the world. how many times in your experience are they naked? And he just looked at me and said, never, they're never naked. And what meets the legal criteria for proving crimes against humanity are witnesses, eyewitnesses.
And what's important about the documentary that we did, but also important about the efforts Israel is doing. Israel is doing that documentation, not Israel, the country, a woman in Israel named Kochav Levy, who's fantastic. She is from a private university with private funding doing that documentation, which at this point are mostly considered of interviews, but there are hundreds of them.
And look, I hope people watch. In the documentary, I go into a field with this guy, Rami. I'm sure you guys remember this. Because he's huge, right?
He stands like this tall over me. Private citizen. This guy is the biggest hero I've ever met in my life. Sirens go off. He gets into his car, takes his gun, and drives to where- Incredible bravery. Rescued hundreds of people himself. Himself. But he got to a field and I stood in those trees. And he said, these trees, he thinks about 30 women were there and raped or sexually brutalized.
When he saw them, they were naked, tied to trees, legs red, bloodied, like bloodied in the regions you would be bloody if you were raped. And what he said in the film is, I got there, I covered their bodies so no one else would see. He didn't take pictures. I wish he had. But, well, I guess, I don't know. Do I wish he had? I don't know. But you understand why.
But he said, I saw this with my own eyes. And what you saw in the film is this huge man who's so brave, fought terrorists, himself crying, because he didn't get there early enough to save those women. But the good news is, while the victims were killed,
The good news is the first responders are alive and their testimony, which is eyewitness testimony, meets the criteria of any international or global court. Absolutely. Crimes can be proven by eyewitnesses for sure.
I mean, look. We need peace. We need two sides and two leaders that are committed to peace, like long-term peace. And there's a lot going wrong. But on this aspect, You violate, someone said it in the film, you violate a woman, you violate a country. There's a reason sexual violence is used as a war crime.
There's a reason it was used in the DRC and Bosnia, and it's being used in Ukraine today because, and I can see it in your reaction. I mean, I watch y'all.
You humiliate, look at the three of you. Like, you all don't cry a lot. Like, this is traumatic because you all have mothers, right? and daughters, like you can feel what happens to a country. And that's why this was done. This was not an accident. This was on purpose. And unfortunately it works.
Well, I can tell you what I believe. I believe we need peace. I believe we need two states. I believe that those states need to be run by peaceful leaders who want prosperity for the other side. Look, I believe we should be able to look at anyone anywhere in the world, but certainly the Palestinian people living in Gaza and say any death is too much. One death is too much.
No innocent lives should be killed. No women, no children, no innocent lives should be killed. But I think also as part of that path to peace, there needs to be forgiveness, but there needs to be a clear, clear articulation of what is not acceptable ever. And the sexual violence is not acceptable ever.
No, no. I mean, I don't have an answer to peace in the Middle East. I don't. I mean, I wish I did, but I do have a very strong view that we are not going to get to peace when we are apologizing or denying crimes against humanity and mass rape of women. That is not the path to peace. The path to peace is not saying this didn't happen.
Showing 181–200 of 230 · page 10 of 12
← Previous
Next →