On Monday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" expressed their outrage at comments made by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday where she downplayed the rape of Jewish women by Hamas terrorists after they invaded Israel on Oct. 7.
During the interview, the Democrat from Washington was asked by CNN host Dana Bash, "With respect, I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I’m asking you about Hamas," to which Jayapal replied, "...we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians. Fifteen thousand Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes, three-quarters of whom are women and children."
"And it’s horrible," Bash replied before pointing out, "But you don’t see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women."
"I don’t want this to be the hierarchies of oppressions," Jayapal dismissively shot back.
After watching the clip, a clearly stunned and fuming "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski stated, "My lord, was she equivocating?"
Co-host Joe Scarborough, added, "I think what's remarkable is that you have many people, international organizations on the left, that just can't condemn Hamas raping and abusing and raping to the point of death and then parading them."
"She kind of sort of did," Brzezinski interjected.
"But it was never, like, we can condemn Hamas," Scarborough continued. "It always has to be— there's always moral equivocation. There's always moral equivocation. You can never say that what Hamas did to Jewish women was absolutely savage and beyond the pale. It always has to be, 'yeah, but Israel.'"
Morning Joe contributor Elise Jordan tersely chimed in, "I mean, you would think there is a huge outcry anytime rape is being used as a weapon of war. Period, that's wrong. It's a crime against humanity. It is a war crime. End of discussion. You don't have to do the other side here."
After showing the clip a second time, Scarborough added, "We have to remember, she's asked about rape and goes, 'But we have to remember.' She's asked about Jewish women being savaged and she goes, 'It happens, it happens in wartime.' She's asked again about it, and goes, 'Yes, it's terrible, it's bad, I'm against it ... however,' acting as if nobody has talked about the civilian death toll in Gaza."
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"She can't just condemn Jewish women being brutalized and it being videotaped and people seeing it, she just can't," he continued. "It's always a "But, we have to remember, it happens in war.'"
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