Palestinian men commit gender-based violence, but Israel is blamed.

Palestinian men commit gender-based violence, but Israel is blamed.

The rhetorical trickery employed by Telegraph reporter Melanie Swan to avoid assigning blame to the Palestinian men who abuse women and girls is staggering, and represents another example of the media echo chamber that refuses to assign Palestinians agency. The piece (“Thousands of women and girls in the West Bank exposed to gender based violence”, March 27) is based on a report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), and, as you can see, …