CW: Sexual Violence | Reading About Rape by Israelis Has Left Me Sick

[IrisieMendimeve]

I honestly don’t even know how to process what I’ve just read.

The article detailing accounts of sexual violence against Palestinians has left me feeling sick to my stomach. The sheer brutality described, people being humiliated, violated, and terrorised in ways that no human being should ever endure, is beyond horrifying. I had to stop reading more than once because it was just too much to take in.

What’s even more disturbing is that these aren’t isolated claims suddenly appearing out of nowhere. The suggestion that there are multiple testimonies, patterns, and reports pointing to this kind of abuse makes it feel even heavier. It raises that awful question of how much suffering goes unseen, unheard, or dismissed, especially when those responsible hold power over others.

As a mum, I keep thinking about the families behind these stories. The women, the men, the children, the ripple effect of this kind of trauma doesn’t just stop with the individual. It shapes entire lives, generations even. The idea of anyone’s child being subjected to such cruelty is unbearable.

I’m not posting this to start an argument about politics or take sides. I’m posting because, at a very basic human level, this is devastating. No one should ever have that kind of power over another person’s body or dignity, and when systems allow or ignore it, something is deeply wrong.

It just makes me question how easily people can be dehumanised, and how important it is that we don’t look away or accept it as inevitable. Basic humanity should never depend on who you are or where you’re born.

I just feel heartbroken, and honestly quite helpless. I don’t really have answers, just a deep sense that none of this should be happening, anywhere, to anyone.

Would really appreciate hearing how others are processing this, because I’m struggling to shake it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html

Twitter? Never knowingly infiltrated with propaganda.

It will be Gaza is just a bit damaged, not completely destroyed next.

I saw this photo going around of what's described by the people sharing it as a new 'luxury restaurant' I don't know where these people eat that they would describe this as luxury because it's just some tables in a tent but it's really pissed some people off. I don't know if they are annoyed that not everyone is dead or annoyed that they have some food or what the story is but it's really got up their noses.

Ah I just found an 'article' about it https://nypost.com/2026/05/04/opinion/luxurious-gaza-cafes-poke-quite-the-hole-in-the-genocide-narrative/

There isn't even any sign of food at this luxury cafe, it looks to be a charging hub of sort.

There is a book written by Israeli anthropologist Meira Weiss, titled Over Their Dead Bodies(על גופתם המתה). In an Israeli program that interviews Meira Weiss, she says something along the lines of using organs from those 'at the bottom' (borrowing her words) to benefit the chosen bodies of soldiers.

'A New York Times article on sexual abuse against Palestinians — accurate'

https://x.com/i/status/2055396905052500128

In the following video clip, at 0:28, she says "with dogs"

https://x.com/i/status/2036125873347162312"

It's really disgusting. What's worse is the people who justify it or try to act like it didn't happen/has been exaggerated. Sexual violence is never excusable.

Here is the Nyt response to the people who don't believe the article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/opinion/kristof-palestinian-sexual-assault.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.0f5m.J4kT1NIKg_Wb&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The mechanics of rape by dog are impossible. I read quite a detailed piece about that, although quite frankly it's not something I really wished to give much thought to.

The author of the NYTs pieces response to your claims.

I thought carefully about whether to include this. In the end I did because he had told his account previously and because what he described has happened before. Other Palestinian prisoners and human rights monitors have cited reports of dogs sexually assaulting prisoners. The Pinochet regime in Chile used a dog to rape political prisoners. Peer-reviewed medical literature documents rectal injuries caused by canine penetration.

I don't care what the author of that piece of lies has to say about it - it isn't physically possible to achieve forceful penetration with a dog penis.
And I actually hate the man for the fact that I had to type that.

A quick google would suggest otherwise.

Where did you read your informative piece? Times of Israel?

Yes I totally believe. Have you not seen some of the videos? Sickening.

And I actually hate the man for the fact that I had to type that.

I'll save my hate for the perpetrators of the sexual abuse not those documenting it.

Nobody made you type anything. You felt the need off your own back to come here and call Palestinians who talk about the sexual assault they have lived through liars.

I think a 2 times pulitzer prize winning journalist who uses peer reviewed medical literature has a bit more credibility than a mumsnetter who says that they read something somewhere.

The Chilean dogs name was Volodia, it was trained by owner (who moved to Chile with their Nazi sympathetic family) to rape prisoners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Olderock

I sincerely hope that all the deniers, don't cry any tears or complain in the future when ordinary people start revising and questioning the veracity of history as there is no verifiable evidence apart from the victims testimony.

They're really not going to like this new future they've invited.

Agree. I'm not sure why people seem so confident to say they're lying. You can say you have doubts fine but this arrogance to say, no they're lying didn't happen end of, is strange and then to go further and criticise and mock those that dare to believe them.

Not sure that kind of narrative would be accepted about any other group of people, but if their Palestinians the default seems to be don't believe them.

Israel has full LGBT+ rights? That old chestnut. You can’t even have a same-sex marriage in Israel. You have to get married abroad and then have it affirmed when you return to the country. It’s the same with inter-faith marriage – not allowed in Israel.

(I’m Jewish btw.)

The whole thing is so obviously some sort of deranged blood libel that it's genuinely bordering on embarrassing that anyone is falling for it.

It's also ironic given the grotesqueries that Hamas - and their camp followers from Gaza - definitely did commit.

No-one that isn't already completely far gone on the Israel-hate thinks this is remotely credible.

This is just a rant. Where is your so informative article and who wrote it?

No-one that isn't already completely far gone on the Israel-hate thinks this is remotely credible.

Yes I can see a lot of hate but I think we will disagree on who is doing the hating and who is hated

No one is denying what Hamas did and their horrendous atrocities..

Why are you denying Palestinian peoples lived experience when you weren't there and have no proof they didn't happen.

Anyone who has seen the acts of violence committed by Israel or the video of a rape in a prison that was never prosecuted over the past years thinks it is more than credible.

That Hasbara money was well spent it seems.

IrisieMendimeve,

The article is of course shocking. I'd have reacted the same way as you did, except that I regularly read the Israeli press too (in English).

The article in the NY Times has caused a furious response, not only for its use of anonymous sources, but for the timing of its publication, a day before The Civil Commission's Report on Oct 7th Sexual Violence
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silenced_No_More_report

Articles about the New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof:

Nicole Lampert:
The grotesque lie regarding Israel and canines
www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-grotesque-lie-regarding-israel-and-canines/

When Journalism Becomes Blood Libel: The New York Times Must Be Held Accountable (Seth Eisenberg, Times of Israel)
blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-journalism-becomes-blood-libel-the-new-york-times-must-be-held-accountable/
(Times of Israel)

What is Euro-Med, the Hamas-linked organization relied upon for sexual abuse claims in NYT column?
www.jpost.com/international/article-896223

Nicholas Kristof’s illogical, overreaching anti-Israel rant in the NYT (Sherwin Pomerantz, Times of Israel)
blogs.timesofisrael.com/yet-again-kristof-and-the-new-york-times/

HonestReporting.com have a page devoted to the articles of Nicholas Kristof:
honestreporting.com/tag/nicholas-kristof/

The article in the NY Times has caused a furious response, not only for its use of anonymous sources, but for the timing of its publication, a day before The Civil Commission's Report on Oct 7th Sexual

The authors reponse: The commission’s work had no bearing on the timing for my column, which had been undergoing fact-checking and editing for weeks. Otherwise, I’d refer you to the recent statement of Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesman for The New York Times: “The Times never passed on the Civil Commission report and wasn’t told about its completion or the timing of its release. Once the report was made public, we covered its findings.”

As for the anonymous sources why can the The Civil Commission's Report on Oct 7th Sexual Violence be made up of almost 100% anonymous sources but a report on sexual violence towards Palestinians can not be?

Some woman's opinion on the sexual violence involving dogs does not prove that it is a 'grotesque lie'. Calling something 'blood libel' does not make something blood libel.

If Israel feel so strongly that these accusations are wrong then they can allow independent observers in to check how they are treating their detainees,to give them all medicals and review all recordings from inside these camps. It's not complicated, if they have nothing to hide it would be a far more effective way of debunking these claims than yelling about blood libel and threatening to sue. They had no problem releasing recordings of themselves smirking and abusing activists so I'm sure there is footage they can share which shows how they treat Palestinians.

Most of your points are backed up by biased news outlets.
The threads about Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians.

Perhaps consider why your links prove nothing

Honest reporting? Give it a google and see how it is regarded in the world of journalism.