How Israel defines "inappropriate" and "offensive"

[geek tragedy]

Not offensive: suggesting punitive rape of Palestinian women as an 'anti-terror' tactic:

A joint response with spokeswomen from Bar Ilan stated that he “did not call and is not calling to fight terror except by legal and moral means.” It also said Kedar “wanted to illustrate that there is no means of deterring suicide bombers, and using hyperbole, he gave the rape of women as an example. In order to remove all doubt: Dr. Kedar’s words do not, God forbid, contain a recommendation to commit such despicable acts. The intention was to describe the culture of death of the terror organizations. Dr. Kedar was describing the bitter reality of the Middle East and the inability of a modern and liberal law-abiding country to fight against the terror of suicide bombers.”

http://m.forward.com/articles/202558/israeli-professor-suggests-rape-as-terror-deterren/

Offensive: expressing sympathy for war victims without excluding Palestinians from that sympathy:

Bar Ilan University students, faculty and administrators are up in arms over a law professor’s email to his students that opened with an expression of sympathy for all victims of the Israel-Gaza war, implicitly reminding them that the overwhelming majority of those victims are Gazans.

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/.premium-1.607888?v=2E5EDB2B54F99F4D315F0539F0B55ABE

Any questions?

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Kick, since the law professor story got locked in LBN.