Mainstream Media 'Discovers' Israeli Prisoner Abuse, Again
The Financial Times highlights how 'freed Palestinian prisoners recount beatings and abuse in Israeli jails,' noting 'worsening conditions since October 7 2023.' This 'new' development conveniently overlooks Amnesty International's 2001 report, 'Israel and the Occupied Territories: The International Red Cross and other organizations denied proper access to Palestinian detainees,' or the 2018 UN
report documenting torture and ill-treatment as 'routine.' (See: UN Committee Against Torture, 2018 Concluding Observations on Israel). One might wonder at what point routine, decades-long practices become 'worsening conditions' worthy of concern for outlets that have historically framed the occupation as a complex 'conflict.' How many human rights reports must accumulate on the digital shelf
before systemic abuse becomes systemically acknowledged, rather than an episodic incident?