Anat Schwartz

Anat Schwartz (Hebrew: עֲנָת שְׁווַרְץ; born 1978) is an Israeli filmmaker, television director, data analyst, and freelance writer.

She graduated from Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem and attended a summer university course at La Femis in Paris.

[6] In December 2023, Schwartz, her partner's nephew Adam Sella, and Jeffrey Gettleman co-wrote three articles for the Times about "mass rape" by Hamas militants on the October 7 attack in Israel.

"[6] According to The Intercept, an interview Schwartz did for an Israeli media podcast described the process by which she was persuaded by Gettleman to work on the assignment and mentored her in how to corroborate sources.

[5] A series of social media comments from relatives of a victim's family are summarised by The Intercept as indicating that there was no proof of rape and suggesting that Schwartz had interviewed them under "false pretenses".

[26] In February 2024, analysis of Schwartz' social media activity found that in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 massacre she had liked posts calling Palestinians "human animals" and advocating to "turn the [Gaza] strip into a slaughterhouse", "violate any norm, on the way to victory", leading to allegations of bias and violations of editorial policies.

[5] The Intercept wrote that Schwartz "said she then began a series of extensive conversations with Israeli officials from ZAKA", a private ultra-Orthodox rescue organization whose testimony has subsequently been scrutinized and found to be unreliable.