Debunking Kristof's Claims of Systematic Israeli Sexual Violence
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The New York Times Goes Wild with "Israeli Rape Dogs"
This week there was an explosive story in the New York Times by longtime columnist Nick Kristof, who traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories and assembled a very long piece accusing the Israeli government of systematic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners.As part of his allegations, Kristof writes that Israeli prison officials have been training dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. These are very serious claims—both because of their h…
Debunking Kristof's Claims of Systematic Israeli Sexual Violence
Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times essay “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” displays a corruption in the moral language used to denounce Israel. Ostensibly a report on sexual abuse in detention, its actual function is to turn Israel into an object of revulsion: a state reimagined as an agent of rape, humiliation, bodily degradation, and bestial violation. Abuse in prisons and wartime detention obviously ought to be investig…
The New York Times published, on last Monday, 11, an article that exemplifies the process of creating a narrative that, although it seems unlikely, gains immediate prominence. Surprisingly, the text is signed by Nicholas Kristof, an American journalist twice awarded with the renowned Pulitzer Prize, the most conceptualized journalistic award in the world. + Read more World News in West Kristof dedicates his long article to a delicate subject: th…
Journalist Nicholas Kristof reports on his interviews with 14 Palestinian prisoners in a recent column in The New York Times. He says violence against Palestinians, women and children, is widespread, by soldiers, settlers, during interrogations by the Shin Bet intelligence service and by prison guards. Kristof says there is no evidence that Israeli authorities order rape, but according to a United Nations report published last year, which Kristo…
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