(by Gordon Dimmack)
When the UK’s Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, was asked about the documented rape and systematic sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, she dodged the question. Completely.
At a UN-aligned security forum in Bahrain, she was directly asked about what the UN Commission of Inquiry describes as “sexual violence that has become standard operating procedure” for Israeli security forces — crimes reportedly committed either under explicit orders or with the encouragement of top Israeli leadership.
This question was asked because Cooper had cited rape as a weapon of war in Sudan, yet stayed silent on testimonies from Palestinian prisoners who say they were raped by Israeli forces.
Cooper didn’t touch it. Instead, she drifted into safe talking points about “violence against girls and women,” sidestepping the words Palestinian, Israel, and accountability altogether.
“…so we ensure that no one— errrr, everyone— can live free from that fear.”
For a split second, the mask slipped. That’s the truth of British foreign policy right there — no one they disapprove of is ever meant to live free from fear.
Just days before that speech, Israel’s military announced a criminal investigation — not into the rapists, but into the whistleblowers who exposed them.
Footage leaked from the Sde Teiman detention camp reportedly shows a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian man being raped for 15 minutes by Israeli reservists. Instead of protecting the victim or prosecuting the soldiers, the Israeli army opened a probe into how the footage got out.
Israel’s chief military prosecutor, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, has since taken leave. Five reservists were indicted for “severe abuse” that left another detainee with broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a torn rectum. When prosecutors tried to act, Israelis took to the streets — literally holding “Right-to-Rape” rallies to defend the accused.
And yet, at a global security conference, the UK’s Foreign Secretary couldn’t bring herself to mention a single word of it.
Here’s the sickest part.
In Britain today, police are arresting people for denying unproven rape claims against Hamas — even though, to this day, Israel has failed to produce a single verified witness who says they were raped on October 7th. Not one. And not a single shred of forensic evidence, either.
Just as the “40 beheaded babies” story fell apart, many of the most shocking early rape accusations collapsed under scrutiny. Some were quietly retracted; others simply disappeared once the holes were too big to patch. Most are social-media assertions with no evidential trail.
But that didn’t stop the UK government and MPs repeating them for months, hammering the narrative as gospel truth. And now, denying it can get you arrested — see the clip:
Meanwhile, when Israel’s own soldiers are filmed raping Palestinians, our leaders fall silent. No outrage. No condemnation. No calls for sanctions.
Knowing all of this, there’s only one conclusion: this isn’t about protecting victims — it’s about protecting allies. It’s the weaponisation of rape, used selectively to serve political ends.
Yvette Cooper plainly couldn’t care less when the victims are Palestinian. She cares when the claim can be weaponised against people and states her government wants to punish. Russia, for instance.
Britain condemns sexual violence in Ukraine, Sudan, and anywhere else that suits its interests. It funds glossy initiatives, hosts conferences, and delivers heartfelt speeches about women’s rights. But when it’s Israel — a country armed and shielded by Britain — those same voices go mute.
If rape is a weapon of war everywhere else, why is it “an internal matter” when Israel does it?
That double standard isn’t diplomacy. It’s moral rot dressed up as foreign policy.
The UK doesn’t stand for human rights — it stands for the right kind of violators. The ones we sell weapons to. The ones we call “allies.”
And if they want to “investigate themselves,” we look the other way — and even prosecute people here who question them. But if similar allegations surface anywhere else? Westminster finds its voice overnight.
Might is right. And the “right” way to handle rape allegations in Blighty, it seems, is to weaponise them.
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