The Slander War
Tal Nitzan was a feminist leftist student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Leftists tend to see their own societies as evil oppressors of women and Palestinians and Tal Nitzan was no exception. There was one thing that confused her though which was that there were so few documented instances of Israeli soldiers committing war time rape against Palestinian women. This was especially puzzling because there were so many documented instances of Palestinians raping Israeli women and according to her leftist mindset the Palestinians were the good innocent peopel and the Israelis were the bad wicked oppressor people. She decided that solving this mystery would be a great topic for her masters thesis. The title of her masters thesis was "Controlled Occupation: The Rarity of Military Rape in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict". [1] Nitsán argued that the rarity of military rape in this specific conflict was not a product of moral or ethical restraint. Instead, she theorized that it was an alternative mechanism of oppression driven by a systematic "dehumanization" and racial boundary-drawing. Her thesis posited that: Avoidance of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers served to maintain ethnic boundaries and hierarchies. The lack of sexual violence functioned as a political tool to deny Palestinian women visibility and status within the conflict. In other words Israeli soldiers didn't rape because they were racist and their not raping was a way of oppressing Palestinian women. She was awarded a prize by the leftist Shaine Center of the Hebrew University for her thesis.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/nicholas-kristofs-journalism-went-to-the-dogs-long-ago/
Actual rapes have been a recurrent phenomenon in Palestinian Arab attacks on Israel since the earliest days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as have false Palestinian claims of Israelis raping Palestinians. One such claim by Palestinian leaders backfired dramatically, with consequences that still reverberate today. The claim related to the battle of Deir Yassin during the 1947-48 war. After the battle, the Palestinian leadership and its supporters asserted that there had been a massacre of Arab villagers. While Palestinians and others continue such accusations, serious scholars on both sides have largely converged on their assessment of what happened there, including the number of dead, which differs substantially from the anti-Israel assertions. With regard to the Arab propaganda and its impact in the wake of the battle, a BBC series marking the fiftieth anniversary of the war interviewed Hazem Nusseibeh, who was editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service’s Arabic news at the time and who spoke of a meeting in Jerusalem with Deir Yassin survivors and Palestinian leaders, among them the secretary of the Arab Higher Committee (AHC) Hussein Khalidi. (The AHC – the leading Palestinian Arab political organ – had been founded by and was then chaired by Hitler ally Haj Amin al-Husseini.) Nusseibeh recalls, “I asked Dr. Khalidi how we should cover the story…. He said, ‘We must make the most of this.’ So he wrote a press release stating that at Deir Yassin children were murdered, pregnant women were raped. All sorts of atrocities.” A Deir Yassin survivor tells the BBC, “We said, ‘There was no rape.’ [Khalidi responded]: ‘We have to say this, so the Arab armies will come to liberate Palestine from the Jews.’” Nusseibeh then remarks: “This was our biggest mistake. We did not realize how our people would react. As soon as they heard that women had been raped at Deir Yassin, Palestinians fled in terror. They ran away from all our villages.” According to Daniel McGowan, at one time director of the New York-based Deir Yassin Remembered association, the panic marked “the beginning of the depopulation of over 400 Arab villages and the beginning of the exile of roughly 700,000 Palestinians.” The false story of Jewish rape was a major factor in generating the Naqba.
Nicolas Kristof wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times accusing the Israeli army of using dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. His piece was based on very biased anti-Israel Arabs. There is a good article about who these sources were that was written by Hugh Fitzgerald’s article at https://jihadwatch.org/2026/05/nicholas-kristofs-calumniating-column .
Also if you want to read an extensive list of false Arab allegations you can read it at https://getinsight.pro/allegations.pdf