Testimony on Palestinian Treatment in Israel

I was reminded of the painful reality of Palestinians

when I was in prison. Just hours after being

sexually assaulted, minutes after being beaten, an Israeli

prison official

reminded me of, of the reality, which is

that my treatment was nothing compared to

that of the Palestinians.

What was said to me was that the real prison

was underground in the

torture dungeon underneath the prison, where Palestinians are

raped to death. Now, this should come as no shock

to the Australian public or the Australian government,

given the fact

that just week- last week, the UN found that Israel

systematically uses rape as policy.

It should shock the Australian government in no way that

Australian women are coming back reporting sexual assault and

including rape, given these findings, given the fact that there is

insurmountable evidence that Israel uses rape

as a weapon of war. It should shock no one that we were

assaulted. Israel has killed hundreds of thousands of

Palestinians in the last few years alone, and it is able to do

that due to the impunity it is afforded by the Australian government

and

other complicit countries in their genocidal campaign.

I

really deeply care about Palestine. I really deeply care about all people.

That's why I went, 'cause there is a, there is this,

this group of people who are

under this brutal occupation, and my government

was doing nothing to stop

it.