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Netanyahu suing NY Times over article alleging rape of Palestinian detainees

Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:50 pm
Posted by UFFan
Planet earth, Milky Way Galaxy
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:50 pm
The dog rape thing did seem pretty stupid, but can a country seriously sue for defamation?

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This post was edited on 5/14/26 at 3:52 pm
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:54 pm to
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but can a country seriously sue for defamation?


I think it is an interesting question which should be explored.

Libel and slander aren’t legal simply because it is another country AFAIK.
Posted by NawlinsTiger9
Where the mongooses roam
Member since Jan 2009
39611 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:55 pm to
I’m sure he wishes he could just blow them up like he’s done countless other journalists (and children)

Such an awesome regime we’ve chosen to be in bed with and start wars with/for
Posted by Chuck Barris
Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:55 pm to
Israel is suing to discredit the reporting and paint it as antisemitic, not because it's actually false. (I don't know if it's true or not, but Kristof isn't a hack and the publisher is standing behind the story.)

Israel knows this will never be heard in any court, but the suit gives the impression that they have a case and provides the people who make a living defending Israel with another talking point.
Posted by UFFan
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:58 pm to
I’m not sure a country, including the United States, can sue for defamation. Defamation is typically supposed to committed against a person, not a non-personal entity such as a government. It’s even difficult (albeit not unheard of) for a corporation to sue for defamation.

With that being said, the fact that a foreign country rather than the US is the suing entity does seem to add yet another complication.
Posted by Chuck Barris
Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:58 pm to
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I think it is an interesting question which should be explored.

Libel and slander aren’t legal simply because it is another country AFAIK.
Under U.S. constitutional law, a government entity cannot be defamed. This was reinforced by the U.S. Supreme Court in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:59 pm to
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because it's actually false.

We see dogs being trained to frick people all over the place, amirite?
Posted by TIGERHOLD
Orleans Parish
Member since Mar 2022
1269 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 3:59 pm to
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Kristof isn't a hack


Kristof is a flaming lib and is 100% a hack. This is common knowledge.

He’s one of the biggest Trump haters at the NYT, only slightly behind “I’m a constitutional conservative so I’m voting for Kamala Harris” David French and crazy old Grandpa Thomas Edsall
Posted by Byron Bojangles III
Member since Nov 2012
52282 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:02 pm to
he's a war criminal. sue me.
Posted by Byron Bojangles III
Member since Nov 2012
52282 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:03 pm to
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Israel knows this will never be heard in any court, but the suit gives the impression that they have a case and provides the people who make a living defending Israel with another talking point.
Israel don't want no part of discovery
Posted by T1gerNate
Member since Feb 2020
3327 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:07 pm to
Interesting commentary on the human condition that a nation purportedly justified by the dire need to protect its people from racism and genocide itself became a ruthlessly genocidal apartheid state within two generations of its creation.
Posted by DesScorp
Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
10285 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:14 pm to
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Israel is suing to discredit the reporting and paint it as antisemitic, not because it's actually false. (I don't know if it's true or not, but Kristof isn't a hack and the publisher is standing behind the story.)


Kristof IS a fricking hack, and if you seriously think the Jews trained a special unit of police dogs to sexually rape men, then you make Flat Earthers and 9/11 Troofers look like Galileo in comparison.
Posted by thejuiceisloose
Member since Nov 2018
6385 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:14 pm to
Benjamin Netanyahu has done more to drive anti semitism than any dimwit Neo Nazi in America could ever dream of
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299238 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:17 pm to
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Such an awesome regime we’ve chosen to be in bed with and start wars with/for


FREE PALESTINE! Where parents strap bombs on their own children and send them out to their death.
Posted by NawlinsTiger9
Where the mongooses roam
Member since Jan 2009
39611 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:25 pm to
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Where parents strap bombs on their own children and send them out to their death.


They could do that once a day and it would still be rookie numbers compared to Bibi and friends last few years

I also said not one word about Palestine. I was simply condemning the murder of journalists (and children) and our funding/kinship with the country committing these atrocities.

So yeah, weird reply by you.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299238 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:29 pm to
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They could do that once a day


Can you imagine liking a group of people who sacrifice their own children as suicide bombers for money?

Your own kid, gone, just for a paycheck and "martyr" status.

It will be ok, Hamas will find a home.....wait...nah, the arab states dont want them either...
Posted by NawlinsTiger9
Where the mongooses roam
Member since Jan 2009
39611 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:33 pm to
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Can you imagine liking a group of people who sacrifice their own children as suicide bombers for money?


I could not imagine that, no.

Another super weird reply by you.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299238 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:36 pm to
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I could not imagine that, no.



Its just strange how leftist worship Palestinians, who arent even welcome by their arab neighbors due to their horrid society.
Posted by Byron Bojangles III
Member since Nov 2012
52282 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:43 pm to
I bet America is paying his legal bill too.
Posted by SECCaptain
Member since Jun 2025
2173 posts
Posted on 5/14/26 at 4:45 pm to
Can someone sue something they already own?
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