Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Nethanyahu, and foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, have threatened to sue the New York Times for defamation over the publication of an essay by Nicholas Kristof detailing allegations that Palestinian women, men and children have been raped and sexually abused in Israeli military detention.
“Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times,” Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs wrote in a social media post on Thursday.
“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,” Netanyahu added in a statement to Reuters. “We will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. Truth will prevail.”
The Times has not responded to Israel’s legal threat but the paper has repeatedly defended Kristof’s reporting over the last few days.
Hum, discovery should be fun.
So the Israelis are going to sue an American newspaper for reporting the truth about their bizarre love of raping and murdering an entire group of people? Is that right?
I mean maybe they shouldn’t let their soldiers get away with rape, or train their dogs to rape prisoners, or protest on the streets in favor of raping palestinians. Maybe they should focus on not being a fascist shithole country propped up by my tax dollars how about that?
Rape is BAD! UNLESS Israelis do it then calling Rape bad is ANTI SEMETIC!
-The BBC!
How does a country sue a newspaper in another country? Genuinely asking
Well first the politicians buy the judges and then foreign nation state actors buy the politician. I call it the Zionist human centipede.
Surprised but glad to see someone in all that mess at the NYT has a backbone
Very strange. Did they have a lovers quarrel?
Streisand effect
Does he have any other card then playing the victim? It’s so boring at this point.
