The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has published a major new report documenting how the Israeli prison system has become “a network of torture camps,” where physical, psychological and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners is normalized and routine.
The report, titled “Welcome to Hell,” collects the testimony of 55 Palestinians who were detained by Israeli authorities since October 7 and later released, almost all without charges. This comes as a group of U.N. experts condemned the widespread torture of Palestinians and as Israel’s Channel 12 News aired shocking footage of Israeli soldiers sexually abusing a prisoner at the Sde Teiman army base, where thousands of detainees from Gaza are held.
Sarit Michaeli, the international advocacy lead for B’Tselem, says the abuse in Israeli prisons is “systemic, ongoing and state-sanctioned,” reflecting the cruelty and thirst for revenge among a growing number of Israelis. “They would like to have a completely open field in terms of what they can do to Palestinians,” says Michaeli.
You can find the full report of testimonies here
Anyone who is against RAPE is ANTISEMITIC!
Well fuck, guess I’m antisemitic then…
And that’s another layer of fucked up to calling all critics antisemitic. It can normalise actual antisemitism when it bubbles up.
Yes, this is the quite likely position of the Israeli government. After all, they are looking for the person who published the video of the crime - not as a witness against the criminals, but because that person exposed them.
It’s interesting how in an attempt to rebuke claims that being against Israel is antisemitic, we have now escalated to mocking the idea of Antisemitism as a whole every time there’s disturbing news about Israel…
I am not a fan of this trend. Antisemitism still exists, and nowhere am I finding any indication that anyone is earnestly making the argument that Israel has the right to rape prisoners.
So what is the point of this comment, other than to preemptively normalize antisemitism as an acceptable response to Israeli human rights abuses?
EDIT: You’ll downvote this, but you’ll upvote the “guess I’m antisemitic” comment, don’t act like you don’t see the creeping normalization. No fucking different than right-wingers “I guess x is racist, so I’m a racist now” narratives. I know you think you’re joking, but when people tell me who they are, it’s still prescient to believe them.
we have now escalated to mocking the idea of Antisemitism as a whole
That is the reality if the Israeli government keeps pretending that all their human rights violations are in the name of Jews everywhere. You can’t hold on to being the victim if you are the one abusing now.
Anyone else nazi this ending well?
Israel just improved on the things the nazis did to them in ww2. What they learned from the ghetto in warsaw they used in Gaza
Shut the fuck up
Why?
Maybe the previous poster had an “Are we the baddies?!” moment and it don’t felt so good.
Meanwhile their politicians are freeing these rapists, and discussing in the Knesset (basically their parliament) if rape is an appropriate punishment. Their TV channels are discussing the same thing publicly, and bringing IDF soldiers on the shows to defend raping prisoners. I don’t understand how a society can become so disgustingly genocidal. Nazi shit.
They will of course find it not to be rape as according to Israeli law, only a citizen is capable of being raped. Captured Palestinians are not citizens.
And it is ridiculous how many people on social media somehow think this makes everything okay.
Further evidence that time is a flat circle
Meanwhile, we’ve got “stop being antisemitic” trolls casting doubt among the uninformed.
Not only that. There are whole countries participating in that disgusting shit. UK and US stayed absent from the Nagasaki memorial event because Japan had the good sense of not inviting an apartheid dictatorship.
Japan is an apartheid themselves lmfao.
How so?
They might be referring to the rather shitty treatment of the native Ainu peoples?
While bad, I wouldn’t call it apartheid however.
Yeah I don’t think posting an article of how Abe got slammed for the suggestion is the smoking gun evidence you think it is. Japan’s coming to terms with its past being – well let’s be blunt an call it an embarrassment – is tangential.
Seriously I’m a bit confused. You’re accusing Japan of Apartheid and what you’re coming up are those two things, and not the de facto complete absence of a civic, as opposed to ethnic/cultural, national identity?
Coming to terms with it’s past? They actively oppress their largest minority population. On top of all the shit in Source 2? Alright dude lol just downvote and move along.
They call them Zainichi Koreans in Japan. Dirty Koreans who can’t get citizenship but slave away for the countries benefit. Something like that anyways.
You can get Japanese citizenship after five years of residency, somewhat surprisingly there’s not even a language test. And many many Zainichi did and do.
If that is Apartheid then I don’t want to know what you have to say about Estonia.
