Readers will be aware I have been all over the lies of the flotilla participants, especially the Australian ones who returned with tales of violence and sexual assault. They include Violet CoCo, Neve O’Connor, and Juliet Lamont, the last two of whom had glaring inconsistencies in their accounts.
I have now found yet another indication that Lamont is almost certainly lying.
You see, this was not her first flotilla, and she accused Israel of subjecting her to terrible treatment back in October 2025.
No mention of sexual assault – that came a little later the same day:
Lamont says she was taken to a cell she shared with 15 other women. It was about 6m long and 3.5m wide.
“It really started to feel like there wasn’t enough oxygen in there to even breathe,” she says.
But some fears were more immediate than that of slow suffocation.
“They would wake us up in the middle of the night by bringing two really big dogs into the cell, [the guards] in full riot gear and train their semiautomatic machine guns into our heads with these laser beams,” Lamont says.
This was not the first time that Lamont says an Israeli firearm was directed at her forehead. That began from the moment her ship was intercepted in the Mediterranean by Israeli security forces last Thursday morning.
Lamont says the crew of the Wahoo were cable-tied and forced below deck where the lasers of semiautomatic machine guns were trained on them for nine hours.
“We weren’t allowed to go to the toilet,” she says. “So all the denials, food and all of that, began then”.
The “humiliations” continued, Lamont recalls, in the port of Ashdod where they were also cable-tied and forced to kneel in the blazing sun for hours. They were smacked with rifles if they moved. Lamont says she was stripped and cavity-searched by a woman. Her “breasts and arse” were groped by men who, she says, taunted her.
Further denials, she says, included access to lawyers, doctors and the medication she needed for her blood pressure, which had been confiscated upon her capture.
“I just kept going: ‘I do not want to have a stroke in this awful place’.”
The fact Lamont did not mention it in the first interview is already suspect. What makes it even more suspect is the fact she claims to have been treated like this yet returned! The following is what she said in April, right before this last flotilla:
Lamont, 55, will be on board again, with the fleet scheduled to leave Barcelona in mid-April before joining other boats en route to Gaza.
“I just wonder if I will be punished for coming back, for daring to return,” she says from a European port whose exact location is being kept secret by organisers.
“It’s a mixture of being completely terrified, but then being so centred in my acknowledgment of the Palestinian suffering that I have to go back.”
Lamont is preparing for potential harsh treatment at the hands of Israeli personnel by weaning herself off the blood pressure medication she was denied when detained in October. At the time, she feared she was at risk of having a stroke.
It does not make sense that anyone who was sexually assaulted (and claims to also be a survivor of child sexual abuse), and felt they could even die, would deliberately put themself in that position again. Let alone bring along her daughters.
Lamont will again be travelling with her two daughters, split across three vessels.
Let that sink in. We are expected to believe that a woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted, starved, suffocated, and nearly driven to a stroke by Israeli forces decided not only to sign up for round two but to turn it into a family vacation?
Unless, of course, she had good reason to believe the real experience bore little resemblance to the story she told.
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