Racist for not raping Arab women???

Refusing to Rape=Racism if you are an Israeli Soldier, by Phyllis Chesler

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 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124674 )

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.”

Thus, Israeli racism, which “de-humanizes” Palestinian women, suppresses Jewish male lust—which proves that Israeli soldiers are racist oppressors. As the only army that does not, apparently, rape, Nitzan fails to grapple with other reasons for this, including the possibility that Israeli soldiers are acting in an ethical and civilized manner.

According to Israeli Professor Steven Plaut who called this to my attention: ” So essentially Nitzan is saying that the proof that Israeli soldiers are brutal oppressive stormtroopers is the fact that they do NOT mistreat and sexually abuse Palestinian women, not even the Palestinian terrorist women apprehended after trying to murder Jews.”

Plaut bitterly wonders whether if Nitzan “herself were to be raped by Hamas terrorists, I guess this would pretty much prove that they are egalitarian and progressive seekers of peace and justice.”

He suggests that people let the heads of Hebrew University know what they think about awarding a prize to such an essay. He provides the following contact information.

Hebrew University:

President of the University Menachem Magidor

Primary Email address: hupres@cc.huji.ac.il

Second Email address (extra): menachem@math.huji.ac.il
Fax. 02-5811023

Rector of the University: Professor Chaim Rabinowitch

Primary Email address: rabin@agri.huji.ac.il

Second Email address (extra): rector@savion.huji.ac.il

Hebrew University “Friends of” Offices:

http://www.huji.ac.il/huji/eng/friends_e.htm

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Comments

[Angel]

what insanity Deb!..blech!..I'm off to see the lights!..hugz!:)

[Steve]

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM 'THE INTERNET RADIO NETWORK'.

ps. Keep up the great work here!!

[Freedom Now]

These idiots are nothing more than cheap contrarians that will rationalize any excuse to slander civilization while excusing terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.

Such self-loathing is the result of low self-esteem and bizarre Stockholm Syndrome paranoia.

Its really sad.

Anyways, its holiday day time and I'd like to wish Debbie and everyone here a Merry Christmas!

Cheers to you all...

[Debbie]

Thanks for comments everybody, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all.

God bless and keep you every one.

[Chicago Ray]

Here's wishing you and yours a Very Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous 2008:)

[Jack]

Merry Christmas

[Brad Marston]

It is frightening to consider that someone could even "think" that way.