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    Israel says it will sue New York Times over article on sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners
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    Israel says it will sue New York Times over article on sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners

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    2. kimapesan on

      Oh, and on what grounds? Defamation of a country? Countries have no standing to sue for such torts.

      Or are they suing in an Israeli court? NYT can tell them to go get fucked.

    3. Fluid_Drummer1665 on

      The “dog rape” story is as ridiculous as it is entirely uncorroborated.

    4. LemurianLemurLad on

      Can you defame a whole country? Interesting idea, but it seems unlikely to succeed as a concept.

      Discovery will be interesting. Truth is an absolute defense against defamation, if this article is correct and claims “were corroborated with other witnesses, whenever possible, and with people the victims confided in – that includes family members and lawyers”, it seems unlikely to move forward at all.

      This is basically just bluster, and functionally probably a SLAPP case.

      Edit: fixed spelling on SLAPP. Stupid autocorrect.

    5. killjairo on

      They’re taking the trump route and sue … but people know it’s real , that’s why they scare them with “I’m suing you”

    7. GK0NATO on

      And rightfully so, the dog rape is completely unfounded, lacks any evidence and was just published as if it’s fact. NYT published a modern blood libel.

    8. dennis-w220 on

      Didn’t they fire a female prosecutor who decided to whistleblow a horrendous incident? The suspect was not convicted and the prosecutor was fired.

    10. GayGeekInLeather on

      Can a country even bring a defamation/libel lawsuit against a newspaper?

    11. M8753 on

      How much longer will Netanyahu be in office? Israel’s reputation has gone down the drain, they used to say “oh oops did we do another war crime? We’ll do an internal investigation” and now it’s like “talking about our crimes is blood libel”.

    13. trbotwuk on

      This is when you know it’s 100% true.

      Straight out of the Trumpf playbook.

    15. Happy_Feet333 on

      And the New York Times will write an article about it…

      …saying it’s bad for Biden.

    17. Routine_Bit_8184 on

      I mean, how is it defamation, there is ample proof…getting your feelings hurt isn’t defamation.

    19. MusicSole on

      Based on comments seems like no one here understands what NYT’s role has been since its inception.

    20. omniuni on

      Good. They’ve been getting away with misleading stories for years, but this one was just absolutely absurd. And some people actually believed it.

    21. ConclusionKind869 on

      Empty threat – the defamation standard is not easy to beat with public figures..

    22. Nono6768 on

      If they’re gonna sue for libel they’ll have to prove what part of the article is a lie. Good luck.

    29. KittySharkWithAHat on

      Then whatever record the NYT had of this will show up as evidence in court.

    30. logert777 on

      Idk maybe don’t sexually abuse prisoners in the first place. We all know it’s happening. The IDF didn’t suddenly start treating women or prisoners badly. I can confidently say sexually abusing prisoners isn’t a rare thing there and it’s not a rare thing for the US military to do. You get thousands of men with guns and there’s going to be a percentage that uses it to sexually assault people