“Rape is Just Part of War”
The fight is not about Gaza. It is about reality itself.
May 21, 2026 by Hugh Fitzgerald 1 Comment
Andrew Fox, a British veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former member of the Special Forces, a a warrior with a doctorate, went to Amsterdam to speak about the use — the misuse, the abuse — of international law as a weapon against Israel. And he has now posted at his Substack what he spoke about, and what, from some hostile members of his audience, he learned. “‘Rape is just part of war’: what happened when I spoke in Amsterdam,” Andrew Fox, May 9, 2026:
Today is going to be a bit of a different article. I want to tell you what happened to me this week in the Netherlands.
I was invited to speak at a conference organised by Thinc, a Dutch think tank, on the weaponisation of international law against Israel. My first talk to the main audience was about the psychological function of that weaponisation. The point I made was simple: accusations against Israel are no longer treated as accusations; they are presented as verdicts. The allegation becomes the punishment.
Israel is accused of genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, starvation, war crimes, and so on. In normal legal reasoning, such claims are tested against evidence, definitions, context, intent, precedent, and the conduct of the enemy. However, in anti-Israel discourse, the accusation itself is treated as a judgment. The charge is enough. The slogan is enough. The process becomes the stick with which the Jewish state is beaten.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/rape-is-just-part-of-war/
