The Silence That Meets the Rape of PalestiniansMale and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hlA.XxDc.ASzIY019m5CD&smid=nytcore-ios-share from #NewYorkTimes #NYT [shareable gift article]May 11, 2026 There is no evidence that #Israeli leaders order #rapes. But in recent years they have built a security apparatus where #SexualViolence has become, as a #UN report put it last year, one of #Israel’s “standard operating procedures” and “a major element in the ill treatment of #Palestinians.” A report out last month, from the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based advocacy group often critical of Israel, concludes that Israel employs “systematic sexual violence” that is “widely practiced as part of an organized state policy.” #StopStarvingGaza #FreePalestine#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity#StopArmingIsrael#BDS #DivestFromIsrael#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism #Palestine#news #politics
