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Israel is preparing legal action against The New York Times after the newspaper published an article describing the rapes of Palestinian prisoners in its custody.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced its decision to sue on X on Thursday, after the paper doubled down in its defence of the report.

"Nicholas Kristof’s deeply reported piece of opinion journalism starts with a proposition to readers: ‘Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape,'" a spokesperson for The New York Times said.

Kristof's story contained harrowing testimonies of the rape of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, which included accounts of prisoners being mounted by dogs, penetrated by carrots, and rectums torn by batons.

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[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

ISRAEL

RAPES

AS

A

WEAPON

OF

WAR

AND

GENOCIDE

Get fucked, Zionists.

[-] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Remember they exonerated Israeli IDF rapists and then gave then Medals on live television and they are now celebrated figures in Israel.

The entire culture is sick to the fucking core.

[-] ptu@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

They were also celebrating with nooses in the parliament when they passed the death penalty law

[-] 7101334@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

People don't like to hear it but Israel is just a young, technologically-accelerated America, with Christofascism swapped for Zionazism. American families used to have block parties underneath the lynched bodies of black people.

[-] henfredemars@lemdro.id 15 points 1 week ago

Maybe this will Streisand effect the reality of the Israeli rapes.

[-] mcv@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Other newspapers should definitely report that Israel is suing the NYT for reporting about rape in Israeli prisons.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

WHAT? ISRAEL HAS BEEN RAPING PALESTINIAN PRISONERS?

[-] 7101334@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, it's been caught on camera.

They have trained their dogs to do so as well, according to Palestinian testimony.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Just really shows you how fucking delusional these God damn ghouls in Israel are. The New York Times just carries their water. As is their history they always go to bat for fascist regimes and they love to cover up genocides they've been doing it for a century. Certainly they've been doing it for Israel. Still though, not enough for those God damn demons in the state of Israel.

[-] binux@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

It's baffling how it's been over twenty years at this point and still essentially no one with influence has ever heard of the Streisand effect before. Like they're obviously delusional, but it's like their brains are sucked into vacuums.

[-] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Sure. Let's go to court and have a mutual discovery session with a public trial.

[-] Footer1998@crazypeople.online 3 points 1 week ago

The judiciary is, by and large, owned and controlled by the ruling class. Don't expect anything resembling justice to come from that system.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

IANAL, but the discovery has nothing to do with the judiciary, it's before the judge makes a ruling and it's public.

[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“We can rape anyone we want, and if you try to stop us we’ll destroy you.” -Israel

[-] tacoplease@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

"Stopping us from raping anyone is anti-Semitic! Remember the Holocaust!"

  • Israel
[-] Megacomboburrito@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

"It's not fair! We got genocided back then, so it's our turn now!"

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] cranakis@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

The entire Epstein class.

[-] corbindallas@fedinsfw.app 7 points 1 week ago

The irony of suing a Jewish family. Sulzberger Family basically owns NYT

[-] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

wont a trial include...you know...an extensive investigation? wait this is murica, mebbe not

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Not if The Times just completely rolls over and shows it's belly.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The trial would be conducted as a musical, so the investigation would be restricted to a twenty-minute baritone solo

[-] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

Israel to sue New York Times over article truthfully reporting its rape of Palestinians

[-] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, there are literally videos of these Nazis raping a prisoner, they went to trial, the that genocidal state let them off without any punishment. After they returned home to parades and a heros welcome. There were actual terrorist raping a prisoner caught on video - then hailed as heros. Really disgusting scums I can't understand why they even sue. For what? Everyone knows your terrorist forces will rape people. You can go watch the video right now. Wild.

[-] OhioComrade@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Is it possible for nations to sue individuals of different nations? Like what court would this be filed under?

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Trump will make it happen, he's a good puppet

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Streisand effect, i trust you

[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

What the fuck is their standing? Reputational damage of a country? Libel against a country? That isn't a thing.
Hope NYT can SLAPP their asses.

Didn't the Bible say something about all nations turning against Israel right before the end of the world?

We're making good strides in that direction. Let's hurry up and see how it ends. I've had enough, TBH.

How much was Israel spending on pr firms to fix its poor image to the rest of the world, and is this just the first step of that plan?

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

As much US tax dollars as it can get

[-] Corvidae@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Curious they're suing the NYTimes instead of the various interviewees.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Those they are going to murder.

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Silly, they cant murder a news outlet

[-] lmdnw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Performative. Israel will never allow for discovery or let any leadership take the stand. Everyday I hope for more dead IDF. Every time a Zionist or any religious fundamentalist dies, the world moves closer to reason.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Atheist Zionists aren't any less insufferable, though.

[-] SparroHawc@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago

'Zionist' is separate from 'any religious fundamentalist'. Creative interpretation supports your statement. :)

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

It's rabid nationalism. Most Jews (and most Israelis) are secular, though they might light a candle once a year.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Zionism is not grounded on Nationalism, it's grounded on Ethnic Supremacy.

This is why it's far more calously violent towards those they see as being from lesser races (openly called "vermin" by some Zionists).

Traditional Fascism, like in Italy or Spain, is grounded on Nationalism so is way less likely to do things like activelly target and murder children like Israel did in Gaza (were, for example, they had snipers killing children playing at home).

If you want a present day example of this kind of thing "just" anchored on rabid nationalism, look at Russia - murderous, but they generally don't go around mass murdering Ukranian civilians, much less calously murdering Ukranian children. For all the shit Russia does, they're not actually trying to wipe out a people, they're trying to conquer it.

Zionism is in a different class of ideology: the same as NAZIsm.

(Israel itself is openly an ethnic supremacist country, with its Constitution explicitly saying that Jews and only Jews can be Israeli Nationals, so non-Jews born in Israel if they do manage to get it - as it's not an inherent right for those born there - can get Israeli Non-Jewish Citizenship, which is not the same as Nationality in Israel and does not grant the same rights. Maybe your confusion comes from there - Zionist is not about the Nation, it's all about the Race, and as it just so happens the nation of Israel is also all about the very same race)

[-] Krusty@quokk.au -1 points 1 week ago

Religious or not, everyone has a system of beliefs.

[-] tacoplease@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If your belief system says it's okay to rape and murder others who don't share your belief system, then your belief system should die.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago

The claims about dogs seem quite implausible and call into questions the reliability of the rest of the the article, but I'm not sure how Israel actually plans to go from that to reaching the rather high threshold for providing libel in the USA.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 0 points 1 week ago

The claims about dogs seem quite implausible

How so?

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago

I don't think it's something dogs are physiologically capable of doing, and even if it were, I think it's unlikely that dogs would be trained to do it on command.

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Well don't look up the toy box killer if you want to continue to believe that.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Another victim, Angelica Montano, came forward with a similar story to that of Vigil. She said she had been held captive by Ray after Hendy invited her to the house to pick up a cake mix.

... Montano convinced the pair to release her along the highway. She was picked up by an off-duty law enforcement officer and told him what happened, but he did not believe her and left her at a bus stop. She also later called the police about the incident, but there had been no follow-up.

Yep, sounds about right.

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe something like ~~139~~ people knew about it before he was caught too. It doesn't list a number

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