by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 14, 2026 | Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, New York Times, News, Palestinian prisoners, Palestinians, Sexual Violence
Israel has announced that it will sue The New York Times and reporter Nicholas Kristof over a recent article called “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” which documents systemic sexual abuse by Israeli soldiers and settlers. In a social media post on May 14, Israel’s foreign ministry stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar “have…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 12, 2026 | Gaza, Genocide, Israel, New York Times, News, Palestine, Palestinian prisoners, settlers, Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence
Israel’s Foreign Ministry denounced The New York Times for publishing an op-ed on Israel’s systemic sexual abuse of Palestinians. The New York Times “chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry posted on X late on Monday. It went on to claim that the Times has an “agenda” and that the op-ed is “part of a false and well…
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by Abdaljawad Omar | Apr 2, 2026 | Colonialism, Human Rights, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli prisons, Op-Ed, Palestine, Palestinian prisoners
The picture of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir jubilantly trying to open a champagne bottle on the Knesset floor over the passing of a death penalty law for Palestinians will be anchored in history as one of those photographs that needs no caption. It’s the image of a country that has never truly left the colonial moment into which it was born. It didn’t simply inherit…
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by Julia Conley | Mar 31, 2026 | Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Israel, Israeli prisons, News, Palestine, Palestinian prisoners
Leading international human rights groups as well as organizations in Israel swiftly demanded the repeal of a law passed by the Israeli Knesset on Monday that makes death by hanging the default punishment for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis — a law that one group called “discriminatory by design.” Those were the words of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel…
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