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The Knesset Debate

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A Knesset supporter defends the torture, asking if inserting a stick into a rectum is legitimate, only to be shouted down, illustrating shamelessness.

2024: 2 talks 2025: 1 talk
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“to insert a stick into a person's rectum is this legitimate”
“To insert a stick into a person's rectum, is this legitimate? ... Yes, if he is Nukhba, everything is legitimate to do, everything.”
“But sorry, when struggle—Israel struggle for Israeli self-defense becomes a publicly admitted horrible mode of torture, then it's over.”

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A Knesset supporter defends the torture, asking if inserting a stick into a rectum is legitimate, only to be shouted down, illustrating shamelessness., illustrating shamelessness,liberal fascism
An Israeli minister defends torture (rectal insertion of sticks) against a Palestinian MP, claiming it is legitimate for 'Nukhba' Hamas terrorists. Žižek presents this as the lowest point of shamelessness., illustrating shamelessness
Žižek recounts a Knesset debate where the majority defended unspeakable torture of Palestinians as part of the struggle against terrorism, arguing that hypocrisy (shame) is preferable to this open ethical decay., illustrating ethics,ideology,geopolitics-war