A new Israeli military order makes execution the default sentence for Palestinians convicted in attacks that kill Israelis, deepening the dual legal system built on racial discrimination, military rule and permanent proximity to death.
In the video, a woman is heard pleading and screaming, as Ben-Gvir says, ‘Don’t be bothered by their screams’
We looked through the 6,000-plus incidents recorded in the ADL’s antisemitism database and found dozens of examples that are debatable or weird, or dishonestly conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
The New York Times published a detailed accounting of rape against Palestinians. An unreliable Israeli nonprofit put out a report on sexual abuse against Israelis. And all hell broke loose.
A constitutional law professor told Haaretz: ‘The burden of proof on the plaintiff in a case like this is extraordinary’
Even with this story coming more than a year after a United Nations report called out Israel for “systematically” subjecting Palestinians to “sexualized torture,” it was met with apoplectic – though predictable – rage from the Israeli government and a bevy of prominent pro-Israel figures and writers.
Isabel Kershner, a longtime correspondent for The New York Times whose sons served in the Israeli military, is facing growing scrutiny over her latest reporting on alleged October 7 sexual violence claims — particularly after a recent report by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times detailing severe abuse against Palestinian prisoners
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A new report that Israel touts as “evidentiary breakthrough” is little more than a repeat of earlier attempts to “prove” widespread rape: unsubstantiated claims, secondhand accounts, discredited witnesses, outright lies, and most importantly, a total absence of accusers.
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