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The silence around alleged Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians is deafening

Condemning rape should not require checking the victim’s passport first.

Jason Weisberger
May 13, 2026
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Nicholas Kristof’s latest column is a brutal reminder that “believe survivors” often becomes negotiable the moment the survivors belong to an inconvenient population. Palestinians describe sexual torture and abuse in Israeli custody, while the governments that loudly condemned Hamas’s sexual violence now seem to have m…

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