Sheryl Sandberg on Screams Before Silence Doc’s Importance

Specialist exec and also benefactor Sheryl Sandberg thinks her brand-new docudrama “Screams Before Silence,” through which she job interviews women heirs that were actually intimately misused through participants of Hamas on Oct. 7, is actually one of the most significant job she is actually ever before carried out.

“I believe it is because women’s bodies need to be protected. Men’s bodies need to be protected,” Sandberg mentioned in a meeting along with MSNBC. “Women should never be raped … and neither should men. We cannot let today’s politics make us blind to this.”

In the 60-minute movie coming from supervisor Anat Stalinsky, Sandberg consult with witnesses, initially -responders and also forensic pros that have actually appeared in Gaza considering that Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 strike. “Screams Before Silence,” likewise features profiles coming from 4 females prisoners that were actually intimately mistreated.

“She’s so brave,” Sandberg mentioned of among the docudrama’s topics, Amit Soussana. “She was chained in a room for weeks and she was sexually assaulted by her captor and she is telling her story now because there are still hostages there, and we know they’re being sexually assaulted, too. The important thing to remember here is that most of the victims of sexual assault are dead. They were killed on Oct. 7, and this documentary and brave people like Amit, their voices are all we have to remember these victims and make sure this never happens again.”

Sandberg mentioned no issue what political viewpoint you maintain, she really feels every person needs to punish the shuck and jive of statutory offense.

“We are blind in this moment to what happened here,” Sandberg mentioned. “The politics, they are making us not realize that sexual violence is not OK. Rape is never resistance, and this is one thing — no matter what else you think should happen in the Middle East — we can all be united in standing against.”

While discussing that she protests the whole war in between Israel and also Hamas, she broke exactly how statutory offense has actually been actually utilized in battle in the past and also the influence neglecting sex-related brutality will certainly possess on females around the globe.

“None of us should want war. But even if you believe what happened on Oct. 7 is resistance — and I don’t, I want to be clear — but even if you believe that, sexual violence is still not OK,” Sandberg mentioned. “Because rape is never resistance, and people have to be able to see the truth here.”

She carried on: “I think we have to recognize, until just 30 years ago rape was just considered part of war. It’s only been 30 years since Yugoslavia, Bosnia, the DRC, where rape started getting prosecuted as a war crime, as a crime against humanity. So in this moment — no matter what else we believe — we have to hold that and not turn a blind eye because if we backslide on rape, women all over the world lose.”

“Screams Before Silence” may be viewed free of cost on YouTube or even at ScreamsBeforeSilence.com. It was actually driven through Anat Stalinsky and also exec made through Joey Low, Meny Aviram and also Eytan Schwartz.