Creating a Weekly Lefty Livestream & Podcast with Katie Halper

Katie and Josh Paul, who resigned from the State Department in October 2023, discuss what Josh calls “Israel’s systemitization” of sexual violence. Josh knows this subject well, given his experience: “a charity called Defense of Children International Palestine (DCIP) drew our attention at the State Department to the rape of a 13 year old boy that occurred in an Israeli prison. We examined these allegations, we believed they were credible, we put them to the government of Israel. And you know what happened the next day? The IDF went into the DCIP offices and removed all their computers and declared them a terrorist entity.” But that’s not all. When Israeli police detained Israeli soldiers accused of rping a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman Camp, Israelis responded by protesting, not the rpe, but the detention. Then, a member of the Knesset, when asked if it was “legitimate to insert a stick into a person’s rectum” replied “If he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!” And most recently, Israeli soldiers filmed themselves engaging in what looks like sxual assault of a Palestinian prisoner. As if that’s not enough, Israel’s own human rights organization B’Tselem has issued a report called “Welcome to Hell,” which describes “The Israeli prison system as a network of torture camps,” which includes sexual violence and rpe. https://www.btselem.org/publications/…

Timestamps:

  1. 00:00 Josh Paul reveals Israeli rape coverup on CNN
  2. 04:00 Israel’s special treatment by State Department
  3. 06:13 media parroted evidence-free Hamas mass rape story, ignores actual Israeli rape
  4. 06:40 B’Tselem “Welcome To Hell” report
  5. 07:07 right to rape protests
  6. 08:29 Israeli soldiers film themselves appearing to sexually assault prisoner
  7. 10:30 Israeli armys is irredeemable
  8. 13:36 Israeli law maker defends rape as “legitimate”

Josh Paul resigned from the State Department in October, 2023 due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration’s decision to rush lethal military assistance to Israel in the context of its war on Gaza. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, security assistance, and arms transfers. He previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Military Legislative Assistant for a Member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee. Josh grew up between London and New York, and holds Masters degrees from the Universities of Georgetown and St Andrews, Scotland. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the organization Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and a recipient of the 2023 Callaway Award for Civic Courage.