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