IDF Lawyer Quits Over Leaked Video, Not the Actual Torture
When an IDF lawyer, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, resigns over a leaked video showing alleged sexual abuse of a Palestinian detainee, one must applaud the impeccable timing of her moral outrage. Not for the actual torture, mind you, but for the 'damaging' leak. This isn't an isolated incident; reports of systematic abuse, including sexual violence, in Israeli detention centers have been documented for
years by organizations like B'Tselem and Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. These are the same 'isolated incidents' human rights bodies have consistently decried, long before a pesky video made its way to the public. We're expected to believe the problem is the PR, not the policy. How many 'top lawyers' silently approved these practices before a viral video forced an performative resignation? The
concern is never the degradation of human beings, but the degradation of the IDF's carefully curated image in the global media. One wonders if U.S. politicians, funded by entities like AIPAC (which poured over $20 million into congressional races in 2022, per OpenSecrets.org), will now finally find their voices—to condemn the leak, of course.