Mindy Stern

Financial Coaching & Empowerment / Mentor to Successful Self-Employeed Super Women

[Awa Dabo @Dabokunda]

@CochavElkayam Thank you @CochavElkayam for the honest, frank and constructive conversation. Let’s commit to working together for a peaceful, just and fair world for everyone. ❤️

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

A simple question: Why is it so difficult to say the words?

I read your statement. It is remarkable how carefully chosen words can still fail to express basic humanity.

You can speak in sophisticated legal language, but the message is unmistakable: you continue to sow doubt about the sexual violence committed on October 7.

Every such statement deepens the harm to survivors and weakens the global fight against conflict-related sexual violence.

How about - I believe you? I know you’ve been through hell?
At what point does skepticism become complicity in silencing survivors?

@UNSRVAW @UNWatch #October7 #SilencedNoMore #BelieveSurvivors #HumanRights

[Melissa ✡︎🇺🇸🇮🇱🎗️#OurPeopleAreHome @unwaiverhesed]

Hear from the incredible, courageous and most of all compassionate @CochavElkayam!

Please listen to the full report attached.

On June 26, 2026, Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, Founder and Chair of The Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes Against Women and Children, presented her new report, “Silenced No More,” at UN Watch’s official side event at the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, “Women’s Rights Under Extremism and Conflict.” She urged the international community not to turn a blind eye to the sexual violence committed against Israeli women.
An excerpt:
"I want to take this opportunity today to speak less about everything in the report as it becomes almost impossible for us to speak about everything here.
But I want to speak about the lessons uh of completing it of and what it has taught us because documentation is never the end of the story. It is really the beginning of responsibility.
When we began this work, I believed our greatest challenge would be documenting the crimes. And in many ways, it was.
The emotional burden of of confronting this evidence was immense. There were moments when I wasn't sure we would be able to complete this work.
But as we were documenting the crimes, what I I did not anticipate was discovering how easily human suffering
can become visible and invisible at the same time. I discovered that one of the greatest challenges of sexual violence in conflict is the human capacity to bear witness.
We were alone.
We faced, we encountered silence, hesitation and at times active and aggressive denial.
Certainly it motivated us to continue.
We wanted to ensure the world knows what happened. Very few in the world have agreed to look at these bodies. We felt that if we would not do this work, no one will ever see what happened to them.
But now that the report is complete, I want to say to you that the real challenge, the real challenge is not
with deniers, but those who believe, those who wish to support our work, many who struggle to bear witness to these crimes. Still, they find it difficult to engage with the evidence. For many, the report is too painful to read, the descriptions of images too difficult to confront, and the testimonies too devastating to absorb.
And I understand this reaction. I do.
But if we look away, because reality is unbearable, we leave ourselves and future generations unprotected.
This report is not about the past. It it is about the future. It reveals some of the most dangerous developments in contemporary terrorism.
The truth is that Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations demonstrated methods of brutality that
others now are already studying, imitating, and refining. This is risking women worldwide.
It will not stay at the limits of October 7 or at the borders of Israel.
And I want to tell you that we cannot begin to address what we do not know happened. We cannot confront what we refuse to understand.
The findings of this report should not get be confined to the history of October 7th. They should inform the work of those addressing national security,
terrorism, hostage taking and atrocity prevention across the world. Speaking here at the United Nations today,
believe the responsibility can no longer rest with survivors or civil society alone. The evidence has been gathered. It is overwhelming. The crimes have been documented. The question is no longer whether this happened. The question is what is this institution and then the governments that comprise it choose to do with that knowledge.
In this regard, perhaps the most painful lessons for me was watching institutions created to protect witness, sorry created
to protect victims struggle to recognize them.
On a personal level, this experience has been profoundly heartbreaking. I have devoted my life and my professional life to human rights. For many years, I've
taught generations of student that human rights belong equally to every human being and that the international system exists to protect us, to protect the most vulnerable, to protect human dignity. Watching the response to October 7th forced me to confront a painful reality. It sent me to this journey. The mechanisms that should have responded first with the ability to listen to simply express solidarity and to recognize suffering failed when they were were needed the most.
I witnessed victims of unimaginable violence struggling to be believed. I watched the willingness to acknowledge suffering depend on the identity of victims and the politics surrounding them.
Most concerning was watching Israeli and Jewish victims receive neither the protection nor solidarity the system was created to provide. We have found ourselves confronting a wave of hatred, denial, and dehumanizations that continues to spread worldwide.

[...]

Lastly, someone recently asked me whether there was anything missing from this very long report and it made
me realize that there is one sentence I wish I could have included there.
Please always always remember that there is as much good in this world as there is evil. This belief allowed me to carry on during these very difficult years. The cruelty is real, but so is human courage. So is love. So is humanity. So is the goodness in people. Hold on to that, especially now, because that is where human rights begin. Thank you."

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[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, founder and chair of the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, challenges the U.N. over its failure to stand with Israeli victims.

@CochavElkayam's powerful testimony on behalf of UN Watch:

Our Civil Commission’s report, Silenced No More, was recently presented to you.

Drawing on an extensive historical archive, we assembled the most comprehensive evidentiary record of the sexual crimes of October 7 and in captivity.

For two years, we immersed ourselves in testimonies of unimaginable violence.

We revealed 13 patterns of abuse — including rape, gang rape, sexual torture, and the deliberate mutilation of victims’ faces and genitalia.

Victims were filmed while being tortured.

Families were forced to see the suffering of their loved ones.

We had to coin a new legal term – kinocidal sexual violence – to describe the deliberate sexual torture of family members.

This terror was made for visibility. Women’s bodies became spectacles of war.

This was also a calculated strategy, repeated again and again.

The truth is that Hamas created a blueprint for others to follow, putting women at risk worldwide.

Finally, the question is no longer whether the crimes occurred. But what is the world do about it.

Speaking for so many Israeli women who care about women’s rights, we were heartbroken by your response.

Where is your compassion?

Will the UN rapporteurs who doubted or denied these crimes acknowledge the truth?

Israeli victims were not merely abandoned. They were singled out, dehumanized, delegitimized.

We are now left to face a world consumed by hatred, and with an international system that fuels it.

Will anything change?

We call upon you to recognize our findings. And let this be the beginning of change.

@theCC07

[Mindy Stern @Mindy_B_Stern]

@lukemoon1 When people spread hate we get death, destruction… when people spread love, we get peace, prosperity

[Mindy Stern @Mindy_B_Stern]

@DefiyantlyFree You are a rock star!! Having the courage to support truth and love in the light of all the hate and lies out there (and in the comments here). You are also a light unto the nations

[MAZE @mazemoore]

September, 2023.

Zohran Mamdani: "We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF."

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

Shocked and heartbroken by the attack on the Manchester synagogue 💔 An attack on a synagogue is an attack on us all. I’m truly saddened that we live in times where we have become a target as a people. My heart is with Manchester’s Jewish community as they mourn and heal.

[Shirion Collective @ShirionOrg]

🚨 NYC Schools Caught Promoting Radical Anti-American Propaganda

⚠️ Your Taxes Are Funding Indoctrination That Calls the U.S. a “War Machine” and Teaches Teachers How to Sabotage This Country From Within

“I opened the email and my stomach dropped. I couldn’t believe what they were sending us. This is not education. It's a manifesto.”

— NYC Public School Teacher (name withheld for safety)

👉 For heavens sake please help us take action. This is unbelievable.

Every teacher in the NYC public school system just got an email from the Department of Education.

Inside it?

A link to an anarchist “action toolkit” titled Stop Gaza Genocide.

This wasn’t a resource.

It was a tactical blueprint for disrupting American institutions and poisoning students with anti-Western ideology.

It tells school staff to protest, boycott, and organize resistance campaigns. It claims the U.S. is part of a "genocidal war machine".

It directs teachers to build pressure campaigns against local governments. It urges economic sabotage. It’s a call to arms - embedded in public education.

AGAIN, this wasn’t sent by an activist group. It was distributed through official NYC school channels.

No warning.
No transparency.
No permission from parents.

This is not education. This is indoctrination.

It’s the weaponization of the school system against the country that funds it.

The group behind this — the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights — has documented links to radicalism, including ties to groups aligned with terror, hatred, and violence. And yet NYC’s Department of Education is distributing their messaging to the people who shape your children’s worldview.

This is state-sponsored subversion. It’s ideological warfare against American values. And it’s being fed to your kids.

If we let this slide, we lose more than a news cycle. We lose the future.

Here’s what has to happen now:

•Chancellor Ramos must be immediately removed

•Every official involved in this distribution must be fired

•The NYC Department of Education must be investigated at the state and federal level

•This toolkit must be pulled and permanently banned from any school-affiliated platform

If we lose the schools, we lose the generation.

If we lose the generation, we lose the country.

📛 This is the line. Draw it now.

Thanks to @bellewriter for helping to expose this.

Read what you can do ⬇️

[MOHAMED ALBAHRAINI @aldhirabi]

I lost my two kids
#ARIEL AND #KFIR

The great #BIBAS family sending a question to all the #peace makers in the #world?

[Mindy Stern @Mindy_B_Stern]

@USLLeagueOne @Tormenta_FC @Terminix EXCELLENT YANIV ⚽

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

On #Oct7, the world witnessed horrific attacks targeting families. Every day, heartbreaking testimonies of the abuse and torture of families are uncovered.

Just days ago, H*amas released a devastating video of hostage Eitan Horn pleading for freedom while his brother is separated from him. The weaponization of family bonds—#Kinocide—must be recognized as an international crime and a dangerous form of terror. It’s a terror that targets the heart of humanity.

Read more on @WestPoint's blog @Articles_of_War : https://t.co/nXlWKd6OvF

@TheRWCHR @IrwinCotler @bringhomenow
#HumanRights #InternationalLaw

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

It's pouring rain outside, unlike anything I've seen in years. Feels like the skies are crying with us today for Shiri, Kfir and Ariel. 💔
#heartbroken

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

“What the Civil Commission on Oct 7 Crimes has done is what Jews have done throughout the centuries in the aftermath of tragedy – bring insight to anguish [in order] to light a path through it,” commented Roya Hakakian, an author and co-founder of Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. “But most importantly, the commission has taken a major step toward eradicating evil by giving it a name. Thank you my friend and inspiration @RoyaTheWriter ♥️🙏 #Kinocide

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

Seeing Yarden Bibas’ eyes yesterday when he was released from captivity broke my heart. I often say that if there’s hell, this is what it looks like—someone abusing your loved ones. Today, at @Jerusalem_Post, I discuss Kinocide—a crime we named to expose the systemic abuse of families during the October 7th attacks. As I said in @sherylsandberg's documentary, H*amas redefined evil. What we’ve uncovered together with @IrwinCotler @TheRWCHR is a pattern of distinct and cruel nature.
The world must not only recognize this as a new international crime but must also demand justice for these victims, ensuring their rights, their pain, and their stories are never ignored. #Kinocide #NeverForget 🙏 Judy Siegel-Itzkovitch

[BrightMind History @Brightmind_ME]

@UNRWA Oh no, how will Hamas ever manage without its favorite terror-enabling, hostage-hiding ‘humanitarian’ agency? Such a tragedy

[LeoTerrell @TheLeoTerrell]

Attention Board of Trustees of all colleges and universities allowing antisemitic behavior to take place. You have a fiduciary duty to protect Jewish students! Expect a letter from me in the immediate future!
Leo Terrell Senior Counsel, Department of Justice

[Mindy Stern @Mindy_B_Stern]

@TheLeoTerrell Thank you for standing up against anti-Semitism

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

Agam, Arbel, Shiri, and all those still in captivity – we will not rest until you're home. We׳re waiting for you, fighting every day
🤍💛
#BringThemHomeNow

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

After so many days of prayer, so many sleepless nights thinking of you… I cannot stop crying with joy. How brave you all are.
Karina, Lori, Naama, Daniella – YOU are home. You’re with us. You are our heroes. Your freedom is what we’ve fought for, prayed for, and never gave up on.
Sometimes dreams do come true. We just have to believe it.
@bringhomenow @Bring_Naamalevy @Bring_Daughters