“I don’t believe, I do not believe October 7th was resistance, I don’t believe that. But let’s say you did believe that, and then you hear that there was mass rape. You can either think, wait a second, maybe the world’s not so black and white, maybe my narrative isn’t right, or you can deny. The denial doesn’t help. And it goes against what we all are. All of these conversations need to start with the facts, the facts.”Screams Before Silence comes at you hard with facts that bring you to your knees.
Shari Mendes is an IDF military reservist who was stationed at the Shura Base morgue the weekend of the October 7 attacks.
“We realised that women were not just murdered. Women were shot in the head so many times that it seemed like there was an intention, an objective, to obliterate their faces. Most often, families couldn’t be shown the faces of their daughters.
“We began to see that some of it was sexual in nature. Directly targeted sexual violence. I can’t imagine why anyone in the world would have a reason to shoot a woman in the vagina or in the breast. A deliberate genital mutilation of this specific population of women.”
Yet still the denials come. They come and they’re entertained and pacified and skirted around by timid politicians and morally bankrupt academics.
This is why Screams Before Silence is such an important piece of filmmaking. The truth it brings makes the sin of denial untenable.
We need it as part of high school curriculum. In universities, not just for students but for the cohort of tenured academics who cosplay at being revolutionaries from the safety of campus courtyards.
Available free on YouTube, the film is approaching a million views and the trailer has been seen 20 million times. Sandberg says this alone helps her believe something is shifting.
“The documentary is a very hard topic, it’s brutal, but the response to it is giving me some hope.”
Screams Before Silence can be streamed free at YouTube.
https://www.screamsbeforesilence.com/