Video Description: June, 2025. On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Max Blumenthal, Editor in Chief of The Grayzone. He discusses the Washington Post’s latest hit piece against The Grayzone in an attempt to get its employees investigated by the federal government or arrested for exposing Israel’s propaganda to justify its genocide in Gaza, the lies and fabrications in the Washington Post article trying to tie The Grayzone to being affiliated with the Russian and Iranian government, why he believes the motive for the latest attack on The Grayzone is for exposing Israel’s lies and propaganda surrounding the events of October 7th, the targeting of Editor Wyatt Reed and attempt to tie him to Iran, why the Washington Post is nothing but a laundromat for Israeli and US intelligence agencies in its reporting, the exposed October 7th propaganda concerning ‘Hamas mass rape’ and other pieces of atrocity propaganda, Israel’s own atrocities including torture, sexual assault against Palestinians and violations of the Geneva convention, and much more.
Dogs do not naturally rape or have sexual relations with humans. They have to be trained to do that. So think about it. Before the dog rapes Palestinian Prisoners, it has been trained, so where did this training take place? ✅Why were dogs trained to have sex with humans? ✅Who did they have sex with during their training? ✅When did the sex with humans become raping a human? ✅Who trained the dogs to do that? ✅Who did the dogs rape during the training? ✅Where were these dogs taken after they raped a human?
And to all those folks, especially those who care more about animals, especially dogs, than humans, wouldn’t training dogs to rape be considered animal abuse? And now Israel is suing the NYT for reporting it? Let that sink in. The State of Israel is so offended by this report, that it is suing the NYT for reporting it. Israel is not apologizing, or calling out the IOF who participated, it is charging the news outlet who reported it.
Israel Sues NYT Over Column Exposing Systematic Policy of Sexual Abuse for Palestinian Prisoners
Journalist Nicholas Kristof angered Prime Minister Netanyahu by providing testimony of Israel’s use of dogs to rape detained Palestinians
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced on 14 May that it is launching a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times (NYT) following its publication of a column by journalist Nicholas Kristof detailing the systematic rape and sexual assault of Palestinian detainees by Israeli guards.
In a statement posted on X, the Prime Minister’s Office described Kristoff’s column, which cited testimony from Palestinian rape victims and Israeli human rights groups, as “one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press.”
Israel demanded the “immediate” removal of the column, claiming it was published “in service of a Hamas-driven narrative.”
Kristoff is a prominent American journalist. He began reporting for NYT in 1984 and has won two Pulitzer Prizes while reporting on various international conflicts.
In his report published on 11 May, Kristoff provides testimony that Israeli forces trained combat dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners at the command of their handlers.
A Gaza journalist who was detained by Israel in 2024 told Kristoff that in one instance, the guards zip-tied his testicles and penis for hours while beating his genitals.
On another occasion, “he was held down, stripped naked, and as he was blindfolded and handcuffed, a dog was summoned.” With encouragement from a prison guard, the dog mounted and penetrated him.
“They were using cameras to take photos, and I heard their laughs and giggles,” the journalist said.
Kristoff wrote that other Palestinian prisoners and human rights monitors have also cited reports of police dogs being trained to rape prisoners.
Sami al-Sai, a 46-year-old freelance Palestinian journalist, told Kristoff that during his detention, he was raped by guards, first using a rubber baton, and later with a carrot.
“They were trying to force [the baton] into my rectum, and I was bracing myself to prevent it, but I couldn’t,” he said. “It was so painful.” He noted that the guards were laughing at him. “Then I heard someone say, ‘Give me the carrots,’” he recalled.
Kristoff’s reporting was based on conversations with 14 male and female victims, as well as family members, investigators, officials, and others.
He reported that in many cases, Palestinians fear speaking about their rape due to threats from Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet.
One Palestinian farmer who had been raped three separate times in a day by guards using a metal baton at first agreed to allow Kristoff to use his name in the article, but later changed his decision.
“He had just been visited by Shin Bet and warned not to cause trouble, and he also feared that his family would react badly to the attention,” Kristoff wrote.
The journalist noted that Israel had detained some 20,000 people in the occupied West Bank alone since October 2023, while more than 9,000 Palestinians are still being held in Israeli prisons and detention centers.
An Israeli lawyer, Ben Marmarelli, told Kristoff that based on the testimony of Palestinian detainees he has represented, rape of Palestinian prisoners with objects “is going on across the board.”
Kristoff notes that in another case in 2024, nine reservist soldiers were arrested after gang raping a Palestinian detainee. The incident gained wide attention after a CCTV video showing the rape was leaked to the media.
But a mob of angry protesters, including politicians, broke into the prison to show support for the guards, arguing that Hamas members deserved to be raped. The charges against the soldiers were eventually dropped, and the military approved the soldiers’ return to duty.
Kristoff also cited a report from B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, which documented “a grave pattern of sexual violence” toward Palestinians. The human rights organization said that torture “has become an accepted norm.”
Despite the extensive evidence cited by Kristoff, NYT only allowed his report to be published as an opinion piece.
In contrast, the newspaper published a report in December 2023 claiming that Hamas had committed mass rape against Israelis during its attacks on military bases and settlements on 7 October 2023, even though no evidence for such allegations was found.
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