Refusing to Rape=Racism if you are an Israeli Soldier

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 24, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/249/refusing-to-rape-racism-if-you-are-an-israeli

Excerpt:

Hebrew University has just awarded a research prize to a graduate student's essay in which she claims that Israeli soldiers are "racists for not raping Arab women."(See HERE.)

This is no joke–anyway, who could make this up? The graduate student is a woman named Tal Nitzan. Her anthropological essay has been published by the Hebrew University's "Shaine Center."

Nitzan writes that the "lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose." Since Israel fears the Palestinians demographically, IDF soldiers have been trained not to rape the women in order to avoid creating new Palestinians and little intifaders. (Has Nitzan never heard about Palestinian honor killings in which pregnant-out-of-wedlock or adulterous women are murdered by their families who love them too much?) Nitzan alleges that the "lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences–just as organized military rape would have done."

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