Torture, Leak, Outrage: The Sde Teiman Affair

The Israeli authorities is facing what it calls a “public relations disaster” aft a video surfaced showing soldiers torturing and sexually assaulting a Palestinian captive – a wide warfare transgression nether immoderate ineligible system. Public outrage successful Israel has focused little connected the maltreatment itself and much connected the leak. And the military’s main prosecutor, who admitted leaking the footage, has been arrested and branded a traitor. The saga is yet different illustration of Israeli society’s unwillingness to face what it has become.

Contributors:
Chris Doyle – Director, Council for Arab-British Understanding
Mairav Zonszien – Senior Israel analyst, International Crisis Group
Ori Goldberg – Academic and governmental commentator
Yara Hawari – Co-director, Al-Shabaka

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After an 18-month siege, the Sudanese metropolis of el-Fasher has fallen to the RSF, triggering wide atrocities nether a near-total media blackout. With journalists killed, captured, oregon missing, outer imagery has go 1 of the fewer remaining windows into the violence. Ryan Kohls reports connected the city’s autumn and the increasing grounds of a imaginable genocide successful Darfur.

Kenya’s astir nicknamed president

In Kenya, governmental satire often takes the signifier of sharp, witty nicknames – and President William Ruto has earned plenty. As his popularity wanes, young Kenyans online are utilizing these nicknames to mock and situation his enactment successful ways that accepted media cannot. The Listening Post’s Nic Muirhead reports connected Ruto’s long, increasing and politically problematic database of nicknames.

Featuring:
Paul Kelemba (Maddo) – Cartoonist
Nanjala Nyabola – Political expert and writer
Wandia Njoya – Professor of literature, Daystar University

Producers: Soumayya El Filali & Nicholas Muirhead