Rally for rapists: how two protests show Zionists attitude on for sexual violence against Palestinians

Zionists are losing their shit over a New York Times (NYT) article called “The Silence that Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” written by journalist Nicholas Kristof. As is commonplace with Zionists, a protest has broken out in New York where a group gathered outside the NYT’ Manhattan office not to condemn sexual violence against Palestinians, but to attack the newspaper that published an article detailing violence against Palestinians prisoners by Israeli settlers, soldiers, and prison guards.

A Times of Israel journalist posted a video of the protests outside the NYT’s office.

Several hundred demonstrators outside the New York Times to protest Kristof column pic.twitter.com/20K0KNzXTf

— Luke Tress (@luketress) May 14, 2026

Zionist butcher threatens to sue the NYT

The butcher of Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, also spoke up on the NYT article, saying he would take legal action over the article.

Netanyahu’s post said that he had instructed legal advisers to consider the “harshest legal action against The New York Times and Nicholas Kristof.” He blustered:

They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers.

Under my leadership, Israel will not be silent. We will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. Truth will prevail.

Israel’s systematic rape of Palestinians is widely documented.

The ICC wanted-war criminal, who has previously threatened to sue the NYT wants truth to prevail. The NYT itself has its hands soaked in Palestinian blood. Just because it is now reporting on one of the Zionist entity’s vile crimes does not absolve it of the role it has played.

“As Israel now continues to carry out a uniquely horrific crime in Gaza with the firm backing of the global superpower (the US), Bret Stephens’s genocidal journalism [for the New York Times] is also uniquely horrific.”

— #AJOpinion by Belén Fernández ⤵️ https://t.co/mFBr0tIVFn

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) July 25, 2025

The organisation called Writers Against the War on Gaza recently published  a “dossier” which exposed the “material and ideological ties to occupation and apartheid held by many high-ranking editors, journalists, and executive officers at the Times.”

So, this tussle between Netanyahu and the NYT is no more than right-wing infighting.

Pattern of behaviour

In late July 2024 a similarly unbelievable protest broke out in Israel. The protest was to protect rapists. Hundreds of far-right Israeli demonstrators, including masked and armed soldiers from the IDF’s Force 100 unit, gathered outside the Beit Lid military base. They were demanding the release of ten of their colleagues who had been arrested on suspicion of raping a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military base.

According to Physicians for Human Rights  the victim had been hospitalised with severe injuries to his rectum.

These two protests reflect the attitude of Zionists and their perceived impunity from crimes of sexual violence against Palestinian detainees or hostages in Israeli prisons.

Palestinian testimonies reveal the use of sexual violence

The Canary has covered the extensive use of sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli prisons:

More documented evidence of Israel’s use of sexual violence in Palestinian prisons

Palestinian testimonies reveal the use of sexual violence, including rape, as a means of torture inside Israeli prisons. @alaashamaly on @MiddleEastEye‘s investigation: https://t.co/a70HdbFOMO

— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) December 22, 2025

In testimonies published by Middle East Eye, two former Palestinian prisoners gave shocking accounts of sexual assault and physical and psychological torture inside Israeli detention centres.

They emphasised that what they experienced cannot be classified as isolated incidents, but rather part of a systematic policy practised against prisoners, especially during the initial phase of detention, known among detainees as the “welcome party.”

Euro-Med Monitor has also met with hundreds of Palestinians released from Israeli detention. The organisation recently said:

Their testimonies reveal at least 40 forms of torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.

Eleven of those are

• stripped searches and forced nudity
• urinating and spitting on detainees
• breaking bones and teeth
• forcing detainees to imitate animal sounds
• humiliation by making detainees wear diapers
• rape and sexual assault
• threat of rape
• filming detainees and bringing Israeli civilians to watch their torture
• deprivation of sanitation pads for women
• deprivation of performing religious practices
• electric shocks

Over the past two years, Euro-Med Monitor has met hundreds of Palestinians released from Israeli detention.

Their testimonies reveal at least 40 forms of torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.

In the thread, we highlight 11 of these practices 🧵 pic.twitter.com/kYXmZJST5S

— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) May 14, 2026

Israelis are carrying out a systematic policy of sexual violence on detainees with impunity, enabled by a government that rallies around accused rapists rather than holding them accountable.

A tale of two protests reflects the attitude of Zionists and their perceived impunity from crimes of sexual violence against Palestinian detainees.

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