The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians (www.nytimes.com)
from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 11 May 23:15
https://lemmy.ml/post/47197269

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/47197217

Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.

Opinion - Nicholas Kristof May 11, 2026
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There is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes. But in recent years they have built a security apparatus where sexual violence has become, as a United Nations report put it last year, one of Israel’s “standard operating procedures” and “a major element in the ill treatment of Palestinians.” A report out last month, from the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based advocacy group often critical of Israel, concludes that Israel employs “systematic sexual violence” that is “widely practiced as part of an organized state policy.”

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Jerb322@lemmy.world on 11 May 23:33 next collapse

Fucking disgusting sycophants

finley@lemmy.zip on 11 May 23:41 next collapse

The silence, or the outrage that is drowned out by the distraction in Iran?

soratoyuki@piefed.social on 12 May 01:17 next collapse

I appreciate the article, I guess, but the NYT comments are depressing. ‘Thank you for bringing the this issue to light.” Seriously? Israel’s use of rape as punishment is nigh universally known. Israel literally just had mass protests in defense of the right to rape Palestinians prisoners–something the article dutifly mentions–and people are pretending like this is some recently revealed shock?

FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world on 12 May 01:20 next collapse

My heart. These people are experiencing hell on earth while state leaders look away and the rest of us play with our Steam Decks.

BigMacHole@thelemmy.club on 12 May 01:51 collapse

Rape is SO BAD and TERRIBLE! We should NEVER Be Raping ANYBODY! Wait ISRAEL is doing it? STOP being so ANTI SEMETIC with your RAPE IS BAD Rhetoric!

-Anybody who Supports Israel!