New York Times reports widespread sexual abuse of male and female Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, settlers, prison guards, and interrogators. Survivors describe systemic brutality. No official Israeli response yet.
New York Times reports widespread sexual abuse of male and female Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, settlers, prison guards, and interrogators. Survivors describe systemic brutality. No official Israeli response yet.
This is just an opinion piece, though Kristof does have a history of doing pretty solid reporting for his opinion pieces. He’s the one who exposed all the illegal and exploitative shit on mainstream porn sites years ago, which led to a serious overhaul of content. So opinion pieces can still matter, though they’re usually not meant to have this big an impact.
All that to say opinion pieces are not subject to the same journalistic rigor as a standard article, though proper NYtimes journalism leaves a lot to be desired, especially when discussing the genocide in Palestine.
Unfortunately, one sees such articles far too rarely in Western media.
Usually, all the atrocities are glossed over in order to somehow give the impression that Israel is a civilized state—even though the ICC has had arrest warrants out for Netanyahu and some of his cronies for ages, and UN bodies have determined that Israel is committing genocide long ago.
All this is still possible solely because the U.S. shields Israel from international condemnation, with many other Western countries aiding and abetting this—including Germany, where I’m from; especially given our history, I am ashamed of our unscrupulous politicians.
This also explains why these unspeakable crimes are not being adequately reported, why they are portrayed as a military conflict when they are, in fact, a barbaric slaughter of defenseless people.
The only positive thing I can see in this coverage is that the atrocity is so obvious that this article even made it into the NYT. That is certainly to the author’s credit, and the concessions he had to make in order for it to be published at all are completely understandable.
I just bought a copy of How to Sell a Genocide, which talks about western media’s complicity in the atrocities, you may be interested. It goes hard on the NYT.
Thanks for the tip—I’ll check it out.