Samantha Pearson was until Nov. 18 the head of the Sexual Assault Center at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. It was on that day that she was fired, after having signed an open letter denying that members of Hamas committed any rapes on October 7. This claim was made despite the videos of near-naked women being driven off in the back of trucks by Hamas, despite the testimony of Israeli survivors who witnessed rapes from their hiding places, and despite the videos taken by the rapists themselves, or by Hamas onlookers who wanted to record the rapes by their friends, and despite the testimony of captured Hamas operatives to their Israeli interrogators.. More on the execrable Samantha Pearson can be found here: “University fires head of sex assault center who signed letter denying Oct. 7 rapes, Times of Israel, November 19, 2023:
The University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, indicated in a statement on Saturday that it had fired the head of the campus sexual assault center who signed onto an open letter denying Hamas-led terrorists raped women during their devastating October 7 onslaught in southern Israel.
Samantha Pearson signed the letter, titled “Stand with Palestine: Call on Political Leaders to End Their Complicity in Genocide,” which slammed center-left New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh for repeating “the unverified accusation that Palestinians were guilty of sexual violence,” among other critiques of the lawmaker on the issue….
What “unverified accusation” are those who signed this dreadful letter alluding to? Not only does the IDF have videos of some of those rapes, taken both by the rapists themselves and by their friends, but it also has the eyewitness testimony of survivors, who from their hideouts saw both rapes and gang rapes being committed. The naked and often mutilated corpses of rape victims were strewn about, some with their breasts slit off (Hamas members had fun playing catch with a severed breast), dried semen still on their bodies. One witness saw a rapist who, while still inside his victim, shot her in the head. The Hamas rapists also telephoned their families to excitedly tell of their great deeds (“Mom, I killed ten Jews”), and telephoned their friends to describe what fun they had had raping Jewish girls. Hamas members captured by the IDF admitted that the leaders of the group had “given permission” for the rapes. None of this — not the videos made by Hamas members recording the rapes committed by themselves or by fellow terrorists, not the testimony given both by Israeli survivors, and by captured Hamas members, not the forensic evidence (semen, bruises at the sites of entry, mutilations) — has made the slightest impression on Samantha Pearson.
The letter was authored by Susan Kim, a city councilor in Victoria, and Sarah Jama, a member of Ontario’s provincial parliament who was booted from the NDP [New Democratic Party] over remarks only three days after the October 7 massacre calling Israel an “apartheid” state while ignoring Hamas’s atrocities.
In a letter posted to X, the University of Alberta said “the recent improper and unauthorized use of the name of the [university]’s Sexual Assault Centre in endorsing an open letter has raised understandable concerns from members of our community and the public.”
“Effective immediately, the director of the centre is no longer employed by the university,” the letter read. A new interim director was appointed to head the campus sexual assault center, the university said.
“I want to be clear that the former employee’s personal views and opinions do not in any way represent those of the University of Alberta,” wrote university president Bill Flanagan. “The University of Alberta stands firmly and unequivocally against discrimination and hatred on the basis of religion, race, ethnicity, national origin, and other protected categories. We recognize the historical and ongoing harms of antisemitism and commit to doing all we can as a university to advance a world free of prejudice and discrimination.”
Flanagan said the event has been “profoundly hurtful and may have compromised the trust of individuals in our community” and also negatively impacted the critical nature of the assault center’s work.
“On behalf of the university, I apologize for the hurt and distress this issue has caused members of our community and beyond,” he said….
In a recent video, Sarah Jama [the co-author of the letter]also expressed her skepticism of Hamas atrocities, claiming “there is no actual evidence of these rapes and the babies with their heads cut off — all these things are pieces of misinformation.”
This is simply a lie. The “actual evidence” consists of eyewitness testimony, both from Hamas operatives captured, and interrogated, by the IDF, and from Israeli survivors who saw rapes in progress; videos of the rapes taken by members of Hamas filming their friends enjoying themselves, and by the forensic evidence —such as wounds around the vagina and anus suggesting forcible entry, as well as dried semen.
“So I think it shows the strength of the Zionist lobby here in Canada and the ways in which they were able to pressure an entire government operation to censure me indefinitely until I apologized,” she [Jama] said in a video shared by @AntisemitismCA.
Ah, ever the victim. Sarah Jama, the co-author of the letter denying rapes by Hamas and accusing Israel of “genocide,” thinks she should not have suffered any consequences for that letter. Others beg to differ. But she claims, grotesquely, that the “Zionist lobby” (Jama’s antisemitism is showing) was “able to pressure an entire government operation to censure me indefinitely.” There has been no censure — “indefinitely” — of Sarah Jama “by the government.” The political party to which she belonged — the New Democratic Party — decided to expel her from its ranks. That is all. She can join another party. She can run as an independent. What’s her problem?
Jama’s letter, signed by several pro-Palestinian and progressive groups, called on Canada’s federal lawmakers to resign for “facilitating Israeli-led genocide” against the Palestinians, without providing evidence of the claim.
Israeli-led genocide? It is Hamas that gave a demonstration of an authentic genocidal attempt on October 7, torturing, raping, murdering without stop as many Jews as it could. It is the IDF that, in fighting Hamas, takes every conceivable measure to minimize civilian deaths — that is, to avoid any hint of “genocide.” First, the IDF has dropped 1.5 million leaflets warning civilians in northern Gaza to seek refuge beyond the Wadi Gaza, in the southern part of the Strip. Second, when a civilian building — whether a school, an apartment building, a mosque, or some other structure — is about to be targeted, the IDF warns inhabitants to leave those sites. It does this by messaging, telephoning, leafletting, and by use of the “knock-on-the-roof” technique. No other army in the world warns its enemy of impending strikes. It is this practice that led British Colonel Richard Kemp to describe the IDF as “the most moral army in the world.”
The letter [signed by Samantha Pearson] slams lawmakers for “failing to recognize Israeli occupation as ‘terrorist’ and only directing this term at Palestinian resistance,” arguing they “perpetuate an Islamophobic trope.”
“Your language is fueling the collective trauma being experienced by your constituents, and inciting hate crimes against Palestinians and Muslims,” the letter read.
But Hamas is a terrorist organization. It has been recognized as such by most of the advanced world. Should we not describe Haas as a terrorist group because, claim this appalling letter’s signatories, it could “incite hate crimes”? Since October 7, there have been thousands of antisemitic acts and attacks across Europe and North America. Can you name more than a handful of “hate crimes” against Muslims in that time? I can only think of one — the killing of a five-year-old Muslim boy by his mother’s landlord, Joseph Czuba, who looks completely demented. There have been a few ballyhooed “attacks on Muslims” that upon investigation turned out to have been committed by Muslims themselves, wanting to swell the number of “anti-Muslim hate crimes.”
It’s always heartwarming to hear when some virulent anti-Israel “activist” goes just too far, is just too absurd, in his, or her, venomous attack on the tiny Jewish state, and loses a job as a result. It’s now happened to Samantha Pearson of Edmonton, Alberta. She was the head of the Sexual Assault Center at the university, but despite that position, which ought to have led her to display a heightened sensitivity to accusations of rape, she was determined not to believe the accounts of rape when the victims were Israeli, and the rapists members of Hamas. Perhaps she can take her politically-charged expertise in “sexual assault” to some place more welcoming, such as Al-Quds, or Bir Zeit, two universities where, I am certain, she should do just fine.
Wellington says
The exculpation of pure evil has no limits when accompanied by massive ignorance and quite willing complicity with evil’s designs. Such as illustrated by this lesser human being from the Canadian Province of Alberta.
If only there were no fools and ignoramuses covering for evil, defeating evil would be made so much the easier. Alas, this is not the case as the last month or so since the butchery of October 7th in Israel by Hamas has revealed overwhelmingly and quite depressingly, for instance on numerous American university and college campuses which have become institutions of not higher learning but of lower learning, of centers of indoctrination and not places of any kind in the objective search for truth.
A very great ally of iniquity is ignorance. Has always been this way and always will be. Sure on display now—in Alberta, at Harvard and Yale, in the corridors of Congress, in the MSM, in the Democratic Party of the USA, in France under the pathetic Macron, at the forever deficient EU, at the wretched UN, et al. Oh yeah, it’s a long list.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“If only there were no fools and ignoramuses covering for evil, defeating evil would be made so much the easier.”
100% accurate statement, that’s a keeper.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Wellington and James.
SKA says
What happened to “I believe survivors?”
gravenimage says
Good point, SKA.
Hoi Polloi says
Exactly what I want to know. For years, the left chanted “Believe her!” every time accusations were leveled. Then Biden was accused and the left’s alliance with islam became more open. The damage done by a person in her position who denies mass rape, very solidly established by strong evidence, is incalculable.
somehistory says
“Maryland Hate-Crime Commission Official Compares Israel to Nazi Germany”
“An official on Maryland’s Commission on Hate Crime Response compared Israel to Nazi Germany in a series of social-media posts and claimed that reports of Hamas murdering Jewish babies were “fake.”
Zainab Chaudry is the Maryland director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and was appointed to the hate-crime commission by Maryland attorney general Anthony Brown in August. Made up of 20 stakeholder representatives, the group is designed to “develop strategies to prevent and respond to hate crime activity and evaluate state laws and policies relating to hate crimes.” The commission’s first annual report to the General Assembly is slated for December 2024 and will detail recommendations on how to address hate crimes.
Following Hamas’s October 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis, Chaudry made a series of antisemitic social media posts. On October 17, she posted a photo of Israeli flags at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin next to a photo of Nazi Germany flags at the same gate in 1936. She captioned the post: “That moment when you become what you hated most.”
Directly after Hamas invaded Israel, she referred to the attack on Facebook as an “uprising in Palestine,” and asked followers to remember that Palestinians “are a people who are illegally occupied.”
“Militarized occupation is inherently evil and violent,” she continued. “The state of Israel was created through the oppression, persecution and subjugation of Palestinians. It sits on the graves of martyrs and people forcibly displaced from their homes, forced to endure humiliation, terror, desecration of their holy spaces.”
Chaudry accompanied her post with a Malcolm X quote: “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
On Facebook two days later, Chaudry criticized elected officials for showing “support for an apartheid government that has been waging terror against Palestinians for decades.”
“Who gets to decide which pain is more valid?” Chaudry asked. “Who gets to decide which communjty [sic] deserves to be humanized? Why is white pain centered in global consciences at the expense of others’ grief and suffering?”
Although she is not Palestinian, Chaudry said that “double standards and willful ignorance over the atrocities committed against Palestinians” compel her to speak out on the issue. “Our government is complicit in war crimes against humanity. Billions of your tax dollars fund the military occupation of Palestine and the siege of Gaza,” she added.
…She also accused Israel of teaching Jewish children to “normalize and celebrate Israel’s psychopathic cruelty and barbaric crimes,” claimed that the 40 babies Hamas reportedly slaughtered at the Kfar Aza kibbutz were “fake Israeli babies,” and called the thousands of Americans who attended Washington, D.C.’s March for Israel “genocide sympathizers.”
the lying ghoul said a bunch of other stuff too.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/maryland-hate-crime-commission-official-compares-israel-to-nazi-germany/ar-AA1kj8xi?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=d98597c382794662a9a53c1e1bb38531&ei=10
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link. Somehistory.
somehistory says
You are welcome, g.
John says
Lying to help the cause of Muslims is encouraged in the Koran, there is even an Arabic term for this practice, TAQIYYA. Remember that there are actually TWO wars going on. The first is armed conflict; the second a propaganda campaign.
Hoi Polloi says
Wow. Thanks.
somehistory says
You are welcome, HP.
Lisa T. says
Her name alone tells me everything I would need to know. Wasn’t Zainab the DIL of Muhammad (wife of his adopted son) who Muhammad lusted after and made his wife and when the prophet was roundly criticized at the time for such immorality, allah came to his defense and abolished adoption?
On Fox News within a couple days of Oct. 7 there was footage of a young woman being led from the back of an SUV to a side door. Her hands were clearly tied, and she was being led like an animal. Fox News blurred her pants area, I saw this several times until finally I saw what was being disguised so as not to upset the public. This girl’s pants (which were an off-white color) were covered in blood from her buttocks and down the inside of her thighs. To me it meant she had probably been gang raped both vaginally and anally based on the amount of blood.
I have also seen videos of the interrogations by the IDF of the captured Hamas terrorists, and most admit their crimes quite matter-of-factly. Only one hung his head in shame as he admitted what they had done.
Nick says
Yes, I saw the footage of that poor young woman. It made me sick to my stomach, as did other terrible footage I’ve seen posted on line.
If these images were made public, it might shock enough people to see the truth and steer them towards supporting the poor Israelis and to start believing that Islam is a ‘religion’ based on fear and terror.
Bexarkat says
I am sure she believes those children, women, and grandmothers who were ravaged by brutal thuggish terrorists probably “asked…no, begged for it.”
Kenneth Johnson says
Sh looks inteligernt, but ??? Ken
FYI says
It is not ok to dismiss women being raped:it is a horrific crime.
Larry Estavan says
Israel caves –
https://gellerreport.com/2023/11/disaster-300-convicted-terrorists-to-be-released-from-israeli-jails-in-exchange-for-50-hostages-and-ceasefire-in-pending-deal.html/
gravenimage says
Sadly, I expected something like this–Hamas kidnaps women, children, and elderly people to trade for many more Jihad terrorists. How many times have we see this happen?
gravenimage says
Samantha Pearson, Head of Sexual Assault Center, Fired For Denying Hamas Committed Any Rapes
…………………………………….
This is just nuts–Hamas themselves has been bragging about kidnapping women and using them asa sex slaves.
Hoi Polloi says
Funny how they don’t even believe their own. If Hamas is a victim by her “white pain” standard, isn’t she victimizing Hamas by refusing to take them at their word? They even videoed it for her, but no.
Alex S Fuss says
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/V1CGj6co1t3Appe7/?mibextid=D5vuiz
Major Tom says
Bye!
Harris KRS says
Nice conclusion.
Pray Hard says
I’m sure that Justa Truedolt likes her even more for saying that.
John Pepple says
I wish I had known about “feminists” like this back in the 1970s. I wouldn’t have wasted so much time arguing with them. I just would have said that what they called sexual politics was just ordinary politics and they were in denial about it.
OLD GUY says
She was just a useful idiot of islam.
Elizabeth Lawson says
The depth and intensity of hatred and sheer ignorance displayed by is highly concerning. We know that, for their own purposes, Muslim extremists employ and use, daily, propaganda in their school system. Those who graduate from such a vile ‘educational’ systems are virtually lost to we who see the world as it really is. This Canadian university employee has NO excuse for attempting to gloss over the ghastly experiences that the Israelis endured – murder, torture, rape and terror- all proudly enacted by Hamas against innocent civilians. Given that we in Canada have not permitted ‘hate educational institutions’ , one HAS to ask where this woman was educated and by whom?
James Lincoln says
Elizabeth Lawson says,
“Muslim extremists employ and use, daily, propaganda in their school system”
They are actually devout muslims – not extremists.
Nick says
Stupid bint. Good riddance.
Nick says
Yes, I saw the footage of that poor young woman. It made me sick to my stomach, as did other terrible footage I’ve seen posted on line.
If these images were made public, it might shock enough people to see the truth and steer them towards supporting the poor Israelis and to start believing that Islam is a ‘religion’ based on fear and terror.