Rape, murder, mutilation.- why I had to watch the film of Hamas's atrocities

I COULDN'T sit through Schindler's List when the children were little and found even March of the Penguins, when an egg rolls from the snug of the daddy penguin's crotch to freeze solid on the ice, a truly tough watch.

- Rachel Johnson

No way then could I sit through the 43 minutes spliced together by the Israeli state of the atrocities of 7/10 to provide real-time testimony of brutality and slaughter on a scale not seen since the Holocaust.

When I told LBC's Nick Ferrari I couldn't face going to the screening we'd been invited to, he said, "But that's like saying you won't watch the planes flying into the Twin Towers," shaking his head. "This is history" He was right. All too quickly, 7/10 has become an argument about who was writing history and not what had happened, which was becoming a matter of opinion and not of fact.

The events of 7/10 were fake news, part and parcel of the perpetual, tentacular Zionist conspiracy, critics of the state of Israel claimed. As for the film even if every frame of the so-called footage was released with the relatives' consent, it was all unverified, as if that was somehow worse in our wonky moral metaverse than rape, murder, abduction and mutilation on an industrial scale.