Late last month, Israeli military police arrested several soldiers accused of using sodomy as a means of torture that left the victim bleeding and unable to walk.

At least some of the soldiers have been released. Several Israeli officials have protested the arrests of the perpetrators, arguing it is not a crime to rape Palestinians. -- source

Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday called on Israel to consider temporarily relocating Palestinians in Jenin and elsewhere during a major anti-terror raid. The Israel Defense Forces said it is allowing residents who wish to flee the combat zones to safely leave.

"We must deal with the threat just as we deal with the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever steps are required," Katz said. "This is a war for everything and we must win it." -- source

In a stunning reversal, President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he pardoned his son Hunter Biden who was convicted of three federal gun felonies and federal tax charges earlier this year.

"Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter," the president said in a statement. "From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted." -- source

The hypocrisy couldn’t be more obvious. In Syria, Israel’s territorial ambitions are labeled “security-driven” and legally defensible, despite clear violations of international law. In Ukraine, Russia’s security concerns were dismissed as “imperial aggression,” regardless of NATO’s relentless eastward expansion threatening its borders. Both Moscow and West Jerusalem justified their actions by citing urgent national security concerns – yet only Israel’s reasoning was embraced as legitimate by Washington, while Russia’s was dismissed as imperialist aggression. And resulted in sanctions and condemnation.

The US approach reveals a deeper truth: the so-called “rules-based international order” is not based on rules at all – at least not in any consistent sense. It is a system where the parameters are invented, reinterpreted, or ignored entirely, depending on whether an ally or an adversary is involved. -- source

The White House has rejected successive findings from multiple organisations that Israel's carnage on besieged Gaza constitutes genocide, just one day after it said one was taking place in Sudan.

"There's no genocide happening from the Israeli side on Palestinians. It's clear, as the secretary of state articulated, that what we're seeing in Sudan is genocide. It's the wanton, systematic, direct, deliberate slaughter, rape, murder, torture of people based on their ethnicity or their faith that is genocide, and that's what's going on," National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday. -- source

Forty-five congressional Democrats on Thursday voted with the U.S. House of Representatives' Republican majority in favor of legislation to sanction International Criminal Court officials following the tribunal's issuance of arrest warrants for Israel's prime minister and his former defense chief for alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden has condemned the ICC's effort to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant—who despite being a fugitive from justice was warmly welcomed at the White House last month.

During his first term, Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump sanctioned top ICC officials and banned them from entering the United States.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), Trump's pick for national security adviser, has threatened a "strong response" to the ICC in retaliation for seeking to arrest the Israeli leaders. -- source

While the ADL is one of the chief organizations spearheading the censorship of hate speech on social media platforms and at the level of the federal government, the ADL also has a history of supporting freedom of expression for pornographers. The ADL does not believe that the First Amendment should protect speech that criticizes Jews, but it does believe that the First Amendment should protect pornographers. -- source