Israel is no longer ‘shooting and crying’
Key takeaways
- A settler society rewarded for its violence has stopped pretending to mourn it.
- Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada.
- Any person with an ounce of basic human decency feels horrified, enraged and appalled at the accounts that have been revealed.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
A settler society rewarded for its violence has stopped pretending to mourn it.
Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Israeli soldiers laugh and gesture on their way to a protest at the Sde Teiman military base on Monday, July 29, 2024, against the detention of fellow soldiers filmed gang-raping a Palestinian detainee at the facility [AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov]In the latest revelations about Israel’s brutal torture of Palestinian prisoners, which include rape and sexual violence, the world got yet another glimpse of the horrific reality of Palestinian life under unending Israeli settler colonial occupation. Any person with an ounce of basic human decency feels horrified, enraged and appalled at the accounts that have been revealed. The majority of people around the world cannot even fathom seeing, let alone committing, the sickening and gruesome acts of torture that are recounted in the testimonies of Palestinian victims.