Israel is preparing legal action against The New York Times after the newspaper published an article describing the rapes of Palestinian prisoners in its custody.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced its decision to sue on X on Thursday, after the paper doubled down in its defence of the report.

“Nicholas Kristof’s deeply reported piece of opinion journalism starts with a proposition to readers: ‘Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape,'” a spokesperson for The New York Times said.

Kristof’s story contained harrowing testimonies of the rape of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, which included accounts of prisoners being mounted by dogs, penetrated by carrots, and rectums torn by batons.

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    Remember they exonerated Israeli IDF rapists and then gave then Medals on live television and they are now celebrated figures in Israel.

    The entire culture is sick to the fucking core.

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      They were also celebrating with nooses in the parliament when they passed the death penalty law

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        People don’t like to hear it but Israel is just a young, technologically-accelerated America, with Christofascism swapped for Zionazism. American families used to have block parties underneath the lynched bodies of black people.

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    “We can rape anyone we want, and if you try to stop us we’ll destroy you.” -Israel

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      Other newspapers should definitely report that Israel is suing the NYT for reporting about rape in Israeli prisons.

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        Yes, it’s been caught on camera.

        They have trained their dogs to do so as well, according to Palestinian testimony.

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      They would want to do it on their turf where they don’t have discovery for themselves and all the judges are all in on genocide.

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    Just really shows you how fucking delusional these God damn ghouls in Israel are. The New York Times just carries their water. As is their history they always go to bat for fascist regimes and they love to cover up genocides they’ve been doing it for a century. Certainly they’ve been doing it for Israel. Still though, not enough for those God damn demons in the state of Israel.

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    It’s baffling how it’s been over twenty years at this point and still essentially no one with influence has ever heard of the Streisand effect before. Like they’re obviously delusional, but it’s like their brains are sucked into vacuums.

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    What the fuck is their standing? Reputational damage of a country? Libel against a country? That isn’t a thing.
    Hope NYT can SLAPP their asses.

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      That’s what I was thinking. In what country can a foreign country sue you in your own country?

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    Performative. Israel will never allow for discovery or let any leadership take the stand. Everyday I hope for more dead IDF. Every time a Zionist or any religious fundamentalist dies, the world moves closer to reason.

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      I thought the same thing right away and it makes the whole thing seem like a dystopian dark comedy. What a nightmare.

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    Is it possible for nations to sue individuals of different nations? Like what court would this be filed under?

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      Israel is trying to figure out what victims snitched so they can kill them and their families. They’re not stupid enough to think they could win money, they just want discovery so they can teach those Palestinians a lesson for speaking to the media.

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      The trial would be conducted as a musical, so the investigation would be restricted to a twenty-minute baritone solo

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    Society really needs to realise that these are racist cultists who sexually mutilate children.