“Everybody Loses in the Cynical Israeli-Palestinian Sexual Violence Competition”. Interview with Dahlia Scheindlin – 24 May 2026

00:00:00 Webinar series intro

00:03:59 Speaker introduction

00:06:55 Recap of the main points of Dahlia Scheindlin’s article (“Everybody Loses…”)

00:14:27 Propositions on the background of the victimhood competition (Daniel Mang)

00:19:22 Response and comment (Dahlia Scheindlin)

00:27:42 The Civil Commission’s report, the NYT column by Nicholas Kristof and other reporting

00:41:10 The general context of patriarchal sexual violence

00:47:28 The historical novelty of massive sexual violence in the Israel/Palestine conflict

00:54:20 Global regressions in gender and sexual rights as context?

01:01:22 Conclusion

Dahlia Scheindlin is a US-Israeli political consultant, pollster, and journalist. She is the author of ‘The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel’ and a regular columnist at Haaretz.

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