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Barbara Kay: If only Britain took rape gangs as seriously as Israel took October 7

New report exposes complacency by U.K. police when country's women and girls experienced sexual violence by migrants

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Rupert Lowe, a U.K. Member of Parliament representing the upstart nationalist political party Restore Britain, released his 219-page Rape Gang Inquiry report on June 16. Most of it is detailed witness testimony, by (mostly) women survivors from working-class, Muslim-dense jurisdictions, of long-term sexual victimization by organized criminals in their teenage years. Many of the details are quite nauseating.

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By coincidence, there’s a late-June video clip, making the rounds on X, whose disturbing message pairs well with the revelations of the Lowe report. The clip shows Ilana Gritzewsky, an October 7 hostage survivor, confronting Reem Alsalem, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, in a June hearing of the UN Human Rights Council.

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Alsalem’s role ostensibly confers........

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