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.
Sure. Let’s go to court and have a mutual discovery session with a public trial.
The judiciary is, by and large, owned and controlled by the ruling class. Don’t expect anything resembling justice to come from that system.
IANAL, but the discovery has nothing to do with the judiciary, it’s before the judge makes a ruling and it’s public.
They would want to do it on their turf where they don’t have discovery for themselves and all the judges are all in on genocide.