Young South African mother murdered, husband and son hospitalised and daughter threatened with rape
A supporter of Israel broke into the Hoosen-Preston family’s home in Durban, stabbed mother Halima to death, wounded the father and son so badly they had to be admitted to hospital and threatened the young daughter with rape.
Grayson Beare, 44, who stabbed the husband fifteen times when he tried to help his wife and stabbed the son fourteen times, confessed to the attack and told the police that his murdered victim ‘wasn’t totally innocent, man… she hated my family’:
Beare said he does not personally identify as Jewish but has family in Israel. The ten-year-old daughter, whom Beare threatened to rape, said that the family was attacked because they support Palestinians against Israel’s genocide. His surviving victims are still fighting for their lives in hospital.
Beare’s family has said that they stand with the victims. While the mass media routinely describe peaceful supporters of Palestinian human rights as dangerous, threatening and even violent, events continue to make clear that it is the settler-colonial political philosophy of Zionism – a majority of whose adherents are not Jewish – that fosters racism, violence and murder. This incident also exposes the dangerousness of the media’s and politicians’ misrepresentation of the 7 October raid and their narrative of mutilations and rape – which persists even though Israel’s atrocity propaganda weren thoroughly discredited and debunked months ago.
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