Grey Zone

Organization

A fringe website mentioned as an example of media that promotes an alternative view, suggesting the reports of sexual violence were concocted.


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10/22/2025, 4:07:37 AM

Last Updated

10/22/2025, 4:09:12 AM

Research Retrieved

10/22/2025, 4:09:12 AM

Summary

The Grey Zone is identified as an outlet that actively promotes denialism regarding the systematic use of sexual violence by Hamas during the October 7th attacks in Israel. This organization's role in disseminating such denialism was specifically highlighted and criticized by Sheryl Sandberg on the All-In Podcast. Sandberg linked the outlet's actions to broader societal issues, including extreme political polarization, a rise in anti-Semitism, and a concerning silence from certain segments of the feminism movement.

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Research Data
Extracted Attributes
  • Type

    Outlet/Organization

  • Primary Activity

    Promoting denialism

  • Subject of Denialism

    Systematic use of sexual violence by Hamas during the October 7th attacks in Israel

Timeline
  • Following the October 7th attacks in Israel, Grey Zone (Organization) began promoting denialism regarding the systematic use of sexual violence by Hamas. (Source: Summary, Related document)

    2023-10-07

  • Sheryl Sandberg criticized Grey Zone (Organization) on the All-In Podcast for its role in promoting denialism of Hamas's atrocities, linking it to political polarization, rising anti-Semitism, and silence from parts of the feminism movement. (Source: Related document)

    2023-10-07

The Grey Zone

The Grey Zone is a 2001 American historical tragedy film written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Daniel Benzali. It is based on the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli. The title comes from a chapter in the book The Drowned and the Saved by Holocaust survivor Primo Levi. The film tells the story of the Jewish Sonderkommando XII in Auschwitz in October 1944. These prisoners were made to assist the camp's guards in shepherding their victims to the gas chambers and then disposing of their bodies in the ovens.

Web Search Results
  • Grey-zone (international relations) - Wikipedia

    The grey-zone is defined as "competitive interactions among and within state and non-state actors that fall between the traditional war and peace duality." by the United States Special Operations Command. A key element of operations within the grey-zone is that they remain below the threshold of an attack which could have a legitimate conventional military response (jus ad bellum). One paper defined it as "coercive statecraft actions short of war", and a "mainly non-military domain of human [...] [edit&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: History")] The term grey-zone was coined by the United States Special Operations Command and published in a 2015 white paper. The concept of the grey-zone is built on existing military strategies; however, information technology has created radical new spaces which have expanded what is possible. Modern hybrid warfare and political warfare operations primarily occur in the grey-zone. [...] | | | --- | | | This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help&action=edit). The talk page "Talk:Grey-zone (international relations)") may contain suggestions. (June 2025) | The grey-zone (also grey zone, gray zone, and gray-zone) describes the space in between peace and war in which state and non-state actors engage in competition. ## Definition [edit&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Definition")]

  • Gray Zone Project - CSIS

    The gray zone phenomenon is also referred to as hybrid threats, sharp power, political warfare, malign influence, irregular warfare, and modern deterrence. Although it reflects an age-old approach, it is newly broad in its application. Today, the toolkit for coercion below the level of direct warfare includes information operations, political coercion, economic coercion, cyber operations, proxy support, and provocation by state-controlled Forces. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, as well as [...] Geopolitical competition is increasingly playing out in the space beyond diplomacy and short of conventional war, sometimes referred to as the gray zone. The nature of this compe­tition is forcing the United States to confront the liabilities of its strengths. This report assesses current U.S. government actions to deter, campaign through, and respond to competitors’ gray zone tactics. View Report ## All Gray Zone Project Content ### Filter by Article (3) Event (3) Report (9) [...] Gray zone campaigns are challenging given that warning requires detection of a weak signal through global noise and across threat vectors and regional boundaries. Thus, warning in the gray zone means identifying and assessing new patterns throughout new sources of data. Report by Lindsey R. Sheppard and Matthew Conklin — August 13, 2019 ### Russia in the Gray Zone

  • What is Grey Zone confrontation and why is it important? - The Cove

    Thomas Dobbs et al. states, “ADF members, particularly commanders, need to understand what grey zone activities are as it affects the nation and as soldiers we need to be able to recognise it and counter it in conflict. The grey zone is a mainly non-military domain of human activity in which states use national resources to deliberately coerce other states. States achieve grey zone goals using multiple, apparently unrelated innocent/low attributable, mutually-supporting and synchronised [...] The 2020 Defence Strategic Updatedescribes the grey zone as, "activities designed to coerce countries in ways that seek to avoid military conflict... paramilitary forces, militarisation of disputed features, exploiting influence, interference operations and the coercive use of trade and economic levers." [...] Grey zone tactics, confrontation, and conflict relates to the use of non-military means – below the threshold of armed conflict – to achieve political objectives. Grey zone confrontation is the dangerous ‘grey’ area between peace and war. Activities can include political and election meddling, cyber threats and attacks, economic coercion, use of proxies, and many other measures – including military action. According to Andrew Dowse and Sascha-Dominik Bachmann, it uses the ambiguity of

  • [PDF] Understanding and Countering China's Gray Zone Tactics - RAND

    Definition We define Chinese gray zone tactics as coercive Chinese gov­ ernment geopolitical, economic, military, and cyber and informa­ tion operations (cyber/IO) activities beyond regular diplomatic and economic activities and below the use of kinetic military force. [...] Chinese activities in the gray zone support PRC leadership’s overarching domestic, economic, foreign policy, and security objectives in the Indo-Pacific, which Beijing views as China’s priority region. Gray zone activities balance China’s pursuit of a more favorable external environment by altering the regional status quo in its favor with a desire to act below the threshold of a militarized response from the United States or China’s neighbors. Recent developments have provided an increasingly [...] RESEARCH BRIEF C O R P O R A T I O N A New Framework for Understanding and Countering China’s Gray Zone Tactics G ray zone tactics—coercive actions that are shy of armed conflict but beyond normal diplomatic, economic, and other activities—are widely recognized as playing an increasingly important role in China’s efforts to advance its domestic, economic, foreign policy, and security objectives, particularly in the Indo-Pacific. But there is little consensus to date on which tactics pose the

  • GREY ZONE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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Grey Zone, Area C (Pemberton Valley/Mount Currie/D'Arcy), Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada

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Coordinates: 50.1532000, -122.9009330

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