Western Media, Leaders Slammed for 'Deafening' Silence Over Israeli Torture Revelations *"Can you imagine the response if Palestinians were holding Israelis in mass rape camps and torturing them to death?" asked one critic.* by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, August 9 https://www.commondreams.org/news/u-s-media-coverage-of-israel-palestinian-conflict . . . *Dazed* politics editor James Greig said on social media Wednesday that "it feels redundant to complain about double standards at this point but still, the contrast between the silence about Sde Teiman and the months of lurid, detailed, and at best factually dubious reporting published when Hamas was accused of sexual violence is extremely stark."
Syrian British journalist Richard Medhurst wrote Thursday on social media that "the silence by mainstream media on the IDF's rape culture is deafening." "These journalists are literally covering for the most violent form of rape, recorded on camera, and documented by doctors," he added. . . . On Monday, as* Common Dreams* reported <https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-detention-systematic-torture>, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem released a detailed report, ominously titled "Welcome to Hell," which documented widespread torture and abuse of Palestinians across Israeli's detention apparatus. The report found that "there is no room to doubt" that Israel's torture methods are a systematic, organized policy of its prison authorities. . . . Yet "there is still no international outcry," journalists Lubna Masarwa and Peter Osborne wrote in a *Middle East Eye* opinion piece <https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-has-created-its-own-abu-ghraib-and-world-silent> published Friday. "This collective *omerta* from politicians and the media about Israel's monstrous conduct is hard to comprehend, given that we are talking about systematic war crimes committed on a horrifying scale by a country already under investigation at the International Court of Justice for potential genocide." "Their silence amounts to complicity," the authors continued. "As for Israel, the majority of the political and media classes do not appear to think there is much wrong in the torture and abuse of prisoners, with some ministers actively defending the abusers." "These are the signs of a very sick society indeed—one that has passed through an invisible barrier into savagery," they added. "There are no red lines, no respect for international law, and no accountability. The silence of the West shows that we, too, have entered the same nightmare universe." # # # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31566): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31566 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107800210/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
