Australian activist and 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame has apologised after appearing to dismiss reports of sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israeli women during the 7 October 2023 attacks as "propaganda" that had been "debunked". The remarks, made during a March radio interview, drew criticism for seeming to cast doubt on survivors' accounts, and Tame said her words had since cost her speaking engagements for the rest of the year.

In the original ABC Sydney interview with host Hamish Macdonald, Tame said she would not "sink to the level of entertaining any kind of propaganda" when asked whether she had spoken out against the sexual violence, adding that "those things have been debunked" while insisting the conflict was not "a fair fight" between equal sides. Macdonald pushed back, citing a UN Special Representative finding that there were reasonable grounds to believe conflict-related sexual violence had occurred. More than seven months later, Tame issued a statement saying her comments had been misinterpreted, insisting she stands with all survivors of sexual violence including Israeli and Jewish women, while noting that Human Rights Watch had found no evidence of mass rape on 7 October, though she did not dispute individual allegations, including of gang rape.