Israel has been viciously raping and sexually abusing Palestinians since its foundation

Max Blumenthal

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Israel has been viciously raping and sexually abusing Palestinians since its foundation This is from Alfred Lilienthal's 1978 "The Zionist Connection," citing reports on Israel's torture of Rasmea Odeh (After moving to the US in 1994, Rasmea became a community leader in Chicago and counseled other survivors. I got to meet her in the years while she was hounded by the FBI, which was obviously being weaponized by Israel, and was impressed by her indomitable spirit. She was jailed again in 2013 until being deported to Jordan in 2017).

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Nicholas Kristof

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May 11

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give

4:36 AM · May 13, 2026

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