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Seeking freedom for a rape victim who killed his attacker
Criminal sanctions for rape in Israel amount to a few years in prison at best. Yonatan Heilo – an Ethiopian immigrant and rape victim who lives outside the Israeli consensus – will now spend most of his adult life behind bars. He deserves our moral support despite the court’s blind eye. By Naama Katiee (translated from Hebrew by…
By
Haokets
November 30, 2014
The ‘reasonable person’ standard and murdering one’s rapist
Yonatan Hailu was convicted of murdering his rapist, Yaron Eileen, and sentenced to 20 years in prison because his actions did not meet the “reasonable person” standard. Did the judges not only hear but really listen to his testimony? Did they take his trauma into account? Did they understand that his soul was murdered, over…
By
Haokets
February 9, 2014
How (or how not) to fight rape culture
The way to fight a culture that allows sexual exploitation is by calling out the problematic sides of the people we love and admire. Just don’t ditch that logic when watching a Polanski film. Naama Katiee (Translated from Hebrew by Noam Benishie) In the heat of the Eyal Golan scandal, in which the famous Mizrahi…
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Haokets
January 4, 2014
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Fragmented testimonies: Shattering the rape taboo
One after another, incident after incident, no two of which are alike, yet all linked by a painful silence, film director Michál Aviád shares the stories told to her by women after viewing her film ‘Invisible,’ and explains why it’s important to pass on these stories. By Michal Aviad (Translated from Hebrew by Miriam Erez)…
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Haokets
June 22, 2013
WATCH: Eritrean refugee’s shocking personal testimony
Zabib Sultan, an asylum seeker from Eritrea who heads the Eritrean Women’s Community Center, shares a shocking testimony about her and other women’s experiences on their way to Israel. She gave her testimony during a meeting organized by Amnesty International and the ASAF NGO on May 23, 2013.
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Social TV
May 31, 2013
The paralyzing rage of sexual harassment
For the last 10 days I have not been able to think of the occupation or political mini-dramas of the new government. I read the New York Times every morning, but I can hardly recall the headlines. Even, god help me, the butchery in Syria and now the Israeli involvement seem further from my heart…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
May 7, 2013
Julian Assange and ‘The Women’s Issue’
By Leehee Rothschild Rare are the cases in which an article and the advertisement accompanying it fit together. But in the case of a recent op-ed in The New York Times by Oliver Stone and Michael Moore, “Wikileaks and Free Speech,” the two make a perfect match. Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has been wanted…
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+972 Magazine
August 30, 2012
Using rape to justify racism
On the eve of November 7, 1938, following the brutal expulsion of his family to the Polish border, a 17–year-old Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris. He was carrying a recently-purchased pistol in his pocket. Grynzszpan asked to see an official, was brought to the office of Third Secretary Ernst vom…
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Yossi Gurvitz
May 19, 2012
IDF colonel-rabbi implies: Rape is permitted in war
Answering a question from a concerned reader regarding the Torah’s position on rape during war, Colonel Eyal Qarim of the Military Rabbinate wrote nine years ago – out of uniform – that ‘prohibitions against immorality’ are removed during war. Is it permitted for a Jewish soldier to rape a gentile woman during wartime? This question…
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Yossi Gurvitz
March 28, 2012
Katzav verdict: A letter to A. of the Tourism Ministry
Dear, A., As a father of two daughters who are thank God too young to understand what happened yesterday, I would like to thank you on their behalf. They don’t know it yet, but you have already affected their lives immensely. Thank you for bringing to light the filthy behaviour of Israeli men in high-ranking…
By
Ami Kaufman
December 31, 2010
“Guys, I just totally raped this student chick!”
This, essentially, appears to be the gist of the story of an encounter between an Israeli pick-up artist and a Czech medical student, published four years ago on the “success” forum of The Centre for the Arts of Seduction, an Israeli pick-up school. [Click here to read this story in Czech with Google Translate; E-mail…
By
Dimi Reider
December 21, 2010
The joint struggle & sex crimes: cover up or smear campaign?
Recently, claims have been made public on blogs both in Israel [Hebrew] and outside it about sexual attacks against Israeli and international activists by Palestinians in Palestinian villages and at Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. It was further claimed that there is “a conspiracy of silence” surrounding this issue. To this, leftwing activists responded that these…
By
Noam Sheizaf
September 25, 2010
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