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In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian

According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape.

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Minnah Arshad
Nov 04, 2025
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Right-wing Israelis demonstrate in July 2024 to oppose the detention of soldiers suspected of abusing a detainee. Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images.

According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal over a leaked video showing evidence of soldiers gang-raping an imprisoned Palestinian man is not the vile assault that took place – it’s that someone released the tape.

“This is perhaps the most severe public relations attack that the state of Israel has experienced since its establishment,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a wanted war criminal, said in a statement on Sunday.

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