Israel panics over sexual assault of Palestinians, so launches defamation action.
The furious backlash to reports detailing alleged sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners has exposed something deeper than outrage over journalism — it has exposed the growing panic around narrative control as international scrutiny of Israel intensifies.
The hysterical response to well researched and legitimate journalism detailing the systematic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners as part of an Israeli tactic to use sexual torture as a means to psychologically break Palestinian Drs, Engineers, Lawyers, Teachers – anyone with a profession, would be funny if the entire revelation isn’t so sick!
Oh, you’re going to sue a Newspaper for telling the Truth?
My fear is that the obscene military aid America provides Israel has given them a sense of arrogance that is dangerous and has mutated their culture into a fascism of hating Palestinians.
When you brutally oppress a people, it mutilates the Oppressor as much as it does the Oppressed.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE is one of the best new generation of Australian polemicists in the footsteps of Pilger. Her criticism of Israel’s foreign policy is brutal and righteous.
Her take on Israel’s threat is a must read…
The battle is now over narrative control
Israel is now saying it will sue The New York Times as Zionists continue their days-long freakout over the outlet’s reporting on the systemic rape of Palestinian captives in Israeli prisons.
Israel apologists aren’t shrieking about the New York Times report because they believe Israel was lied about, they’re shrieking because they’d assumed it’s the Times’ job to administer propaganda for Israel. It’s not about “blood libel”, it’s about narrative control.
We know this is true because there’s not actually any new information in Nicholas Kristof’s report; every significant point in the article had already been reported by other less-influential media outlets and human rights groups. We didn’t see this kind of outcry with all the other mountains of reports on the sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners that have been coming out over the years. We only saw it when a more influential news media outlet reported on it.
This shows that their real objection isn’t so much about the actual contents of the article as it is about the information influencing a larger number of people than the earlier reports did. It’s not about the facts, it’s about the numbers. It’s about making sure the largest possible number of westerners think nice thoughts about the state of Israel.
Everyone you see blubbering about journalistic integrity and sloppy reporting today is just admitting that they’re a propagandist. They’re admitting that it is their job to manipulate the way the public thinks about Israel, and that they believe it should be every mainstream news outlet’s job too.
And what’s so funny about this hysterical meltdown is that the New York Times actually has been wildly biased in favor of Israel. Its slanted reporting, unequal word choices and passive-language headlines have been well-documented. All that’s changed is that Israel’s abuses became so obvious and undeniable that its editors could no longer justify spiking a well-sourced report about them.
Israel propagandists are used to the New York Times carrying water for their beloved apartheid state, so they view this as not just a propaganda concern, but as a betrayal as well.
…preach!
Funny how in the wake of this expose of Israel systematically raping Palestinian prisoners and suing dogs to do it, suddenly there was a story in CNN claiming Hamas sexually assaulted their hostages…
Hamas militants and their allies raped, assaulted and sexually tortured their victims during and after the October 7, 2023 terror attack on southern Israel “to maximize pain and suffering,” a landmark new report has concluded.
Shared first with CNN, the report presents the most comprehensive body of evidence yet of sexual and gender-based violence against women, men and children, which it describes as “systematic, widespread, and integral to” the assault.
…couple of things.
- EVEN IF THIS IS TRUE, there is a world of difference between what a militia will do to hostages vs what a 1st world ‘democracy’ should do to prisoners!
- I doubt the veracity of the Israeli claims…
3. …and thirdly, back to Caitlin…
The mass media have been rapidly churning out articles about alleged sexual abuseby Hamas in the wake of the New York Times report, which is some mighty interesting timing to say the least.
Israel announced it’s quintupling its propaganda budget and now we’re seeing the news cycle actively manipulated to advance Israeli information interests, and we’re just expected to clap along and pretend we’re seeing real news stories about real things.
Violence dehumanises both the oppressed and the oppressor
…I just think that Israel’s fear from the cultural memory of the Holocaust have twisted them the way abusing a child can twist that child into becoming an abuser.
They have embarked upon a level of malevolent violence that they self-justify.
They must be called out on such terrible tactics and must be held accountable.
This has nothing to do with anti-semitism, this has everything to do with horror at their disproportionate barbarity.
When your war crimes are so extreme they technically breach genocide thresholds, you have lost any moral high ground.
What Israel are doing, have done and continue to do is the very worst of us as a species made ironic because that’s what the Nazis did to them.
It is a new endless loop of suffering and misery that we have an obligation as citizens of the world to witness and continue to draw attention to.
“What Israel are doing, have done and continue to do is the very worst of us as a species made ironic because that’s what the Nazis did to them.”
Hmm. What did we do to the Nazis after the war? Didn’t we hang a few of them? Didn’t we make them pay the Israeli state reparations? Seems like the BDS movement is a little weak really. There needs to be real accountability to be inflicted on the Israeli Parliamentarians and IDF.
“What Israel are doing, have done and continue to do is the very worst of us as a species made ironic because that’s what the Nazis did to them.”
Who is the “they” you refer to? The War ended in 1945 before Israel came into existence so plainly you are targeting the Jews with this particularly nasty statement? Drawing equivalency like that is baseless and obscene antisemitism at its worst – as you well know. That isn’t an accusation. It is a fact. You do not need to censor or ban me any further. I am done with trying to haul you out of the grubby hateful hole you have dug for yourself. You are unwell. As you say, antisemitism is a disease. I am yet to meet an antisemite who can recognize themselves that they have it.
Yay – Paddy who is really Sammy won’t be posting on The Daily Blog any longer! (isn’t it weird that there is a trope about Jews being sneaky and Sammy pretends to be Paddy to get posted?) Thank Jesus we won’t have a zionist apologist constantly trying to whitewash Israel’s appalling descent into hateful barbarism any more, you can go back to the ACT Party now Sammy/Paddy.
Good riddance to bad rubbish
There is nothing anti Semitic about telling the truth about what is happening in Gaza, you keep believing a lie if you want but the truth will survive ant genuine examination.
Those who have overly positive views of zionists simply need to accept the facts- anything bad that zionists accuse human beings of doing, is not a real accusation of any actual crime. A) It didn’t happen B) It’s something that they lust to do or have already done to human victims
The early Christian church made changes as it sought to separate itself from the Jews so following the example in Ecclesiastes that history repeats we should expect to see the nominal Christian church today emphasise their differences to the Jews as they start to abandon the false prophetic systems that have taught that a new temple in Jerusalem was required.