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The silence around alleged Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians is deafening

Boing Boing·Jason Weisberger·19 days ago
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Gaza at war city destroyed by idf attacks, aerial rare view Image: ImageBank4u/shutterstock.com Nicholas Kristof's latest column is a brutal reminder that "believe survivors" often becomes negotiable the moment the survivors belong to an inconvenient population. Palestinians describe sexual torture and abuse in Israeli custody, while the governments that loudly condemned Hamas's sexual violence now seem to have misplaced their moral vocabulary. And yet in wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children — by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards. There is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes.…

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