Over 300 rabbis and Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied Oct. 7 rapes

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Over 300 Jewish leaders, including women's rights advocates and rabbis, urged the United Nations on Tuesday to remove Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women and girls, for denying that rape occurred during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The letter, which was addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, came two weeks after Alsalem claimed in a post on X that “No independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.”In the letter, its

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