🚨 A Respected German Journalist Was Raped in Israeli Custody — Wild How Little Germany, the Western Press, and Hillary Clinton Seem to Care.

Anna Liedtke says it happened during strip searches after Israel seized a Gaza-bound aid ship. This demands an independent investigation.

A German journalist is on camera saying she was raped in Israeli custody after Israeli forces intercepted a Gaza-bound humanitarian ship. She says it happened during strip searches while she was being transferred between detention facilities. And what’s happening right now—what should make every decent person furious—is the silence.

Watch the video I’m embedding at the top of this post. Listen to her say it in her own words.

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Now let’s talk about what you just heard—and what it exposes.

In the video, Anna Liedtke—a German journalist who was detained after Israeli forces intercepted the Freedom Flotilla ship Conscience—describes what happened to her while she was in custody. She says: “We were transferred from one prison to another, and during the strip searches I was raped.”

I’m going to be disciplined with my words because this is a grave allegation, but I’m not going to be timid about the moral reality. She is saying she was sexually assaulted by authorities while she was detained. If that does not trigger immediate, serious, independent scrutiny, then we have learned something ugly about whose suffering counts in this world.

And here is the part that feels like gaslighting.

I have not seen a single major Western outlet treat this as the urgent, horrifying news that it is. Not one serious headline. Not one prime-time segment. Not one “breaking news” alert. The same media ecosystem that spent months running wall-to-wall stories about sexual violence when it served Israel’s narrative has suddenly developed a case of convenient blindness when the allegation points in the other direction.

That silence is not neutral. It is disinformation by omission.

It is the message, whispered to every survivor who isn’t politically useful: your pain will be ignored.

And I want to say something else, plainly, because people are thinking it.

Where are the loudest celebrity voices who claimed they cared so deeply about sexual violence—Hillary Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg, and the whole chorus of high-profile defenders who spoke with certainty and moral outrage when it was Israeli suffering being emphasized?

I haven’t heard a word from them about this. I haven’t heard a word from them about Palestinian women. I haven’t heard them demand independent investigations into allegations of sexual abuse in Israeli detention. I haven’t heard them show up for a single reported instance of sexual violence committed by Israelis, no matter who the victim is.

That double standard is not accidental. It is policy. It is propaganda. It is a kind of moral corruption where “believe women” becomes a slogan you deploy selectively—never a principle you live by.

Let me slow down and say this clearly for anyone who needs plain language.

A strip search is an act that places the person being searched in an extremely vulnerable position. That’s why civilized systems regulate it tightly. When someone says they were assaulted during a strip search in custody, they are describing sexual violence under color of authority—violence committed against a person who is captive, powerless to leave, and dependent on the institution for safety. In many legal frameworks, that is not only assault. It is a form of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.

And in a world that pretends to care about human rights, there should be an immediate demand for an independent investigation—with transparent preservation of custody logs, transfer records, medical documentation, and accountability for anyone involved.

Not silence. Not “wait and see.” Not a shrug.

Especially not when Palestinians have been warning the world for years that Israeli detention operates with impunity—that humiliation and violence are used as tools, that complaints disappear into a system built to protect itself. If Israel’s detention system can do this to a foreign journalist and expect no major consequences, imagine what it has normalized for Palestinians whose names never make Western headlines.

That’s the larger point. This isn’t only about one woman’s allegation. It’s about a world that treats Israel as the one country that doesn’t have to follow the rules—not the rules of war, not the rules of law, not the rules of basic human decency.

Family, if you believe this matters—if you believe truth matters, consistency matters, and human dignity is not conditional—I’m asking you to stand with me so I can keep telling the stories the powerful want buried.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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