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Israel’s response to recent New York Times reporting detailing the horrific sexual violence inflicted on detainees seeks to silence those who assert the basic fact of Palestinian humanity
xWhat’s most shocking about the latest accounts of sexual torture of Palestinians in Israeli custody is not just their inherent horror. It is that despite so much evidence being so visible for so long, the machinery of abuse and denial continues to deepen.
Nicholas Kristof’s recent reporting on the issue in the New York Times brought important public attention to the issue. But abuses in Israeli custody have long been reported by former detainees, lawyers, doctors and journalists, and documented by human rights organizations. Since October 2023, this body of evidence has revealed a horrific reality: Israel’s prison system has been transformed into a criminal network of torture camps.
Yuli Novak is the executive director of B’Tselem
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Bijna een jaar na de aankondiging lijkt de gouden Trump-telefoon op de markt te komen. De ceo van het bedrijf Trump Mobile belooft dat de eerste klanten deze week een exemplaar zullen ontvangen. Het model en de gebruiksvoorwaarden zijn intussen drastisch aangepast.
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This is a smart piece about where we are in America right now, post-Citizen’s United, post-Voting Rights Amendment, post-Dobbs, mid-MAGA: The VRA Was the Nice Version (archive).
First, let’s be honest about what the Voting Rights Act actually was, because everything here on out flows from it. It wasn’t a gift, not charity, and definitely not some magnanimous extension of democracy to people who’d been waiting their turn.
It was architecture. Lyndon Johnson, who had few illusions about how power actually worked, understood something the current Court either doesn’t know or doesn’t care to.
The bargain was simple: your participation produces results, so stay in the game.
That deal wasn’t made for the benefit of Black Americans alone, though it was Black blood that paid for it. It was made for the benefit of a country that needed a working, peaceful way for people with every reason in the world to burn the whole thing down to instead choose to work within it. The VRA wasn’t just the nice move — it was the smart one. Its purpose was to keep legitimate grievance inside the system rather than outside it.
Now they’ve put it back outside.
And what happens when you can’t work within the system to effect change? People want to route around it (emphasis mine):
The question is whether this country holds or comes apart, and coming apart doesn’t mean a stern editorial in The Atlantic. It means what it has always meant, every time a society told a critical mass of its members that their participation was decoration. It means blood. It means whole regions of this country deciding that the social contract is a piece of paper the other side already burned, and they’re under no obligation to honor a corpse.
That’s the alternative. Not inconvenience, not even a bad news cycle. That.
Een woning kopen: lange tijd leek het een onmogelijke opgave, maar tegenwoordig lukt het starters steeds vaker. Jan en Marilena kochten hun eerste huis samen in Rotterdam-Zuid, een opknapper. Van de muren tot het plafond, tot de trap en de ramen: het stel deelt alles op hun sociale media.
