But the Jewish mind can be expected to devise ways of imposing the new restriction on all Palestinian political/security prisoners. “Upon entering the common shower, the guard would warn the prisoners that they had to undress, shower and get dressed in very little time. Over the years, political actors including journalists peddled the lie that Palestinian prisoners were being held in five-star-hotel conditions and demanded that this be stopped. It turns out that the Public Defender’s Office, in its harsh criticism of Israeli prison conditions, was unaware of those hotels behind bars. But in prison, Palestinian inmates become a collective “enemy” for the authorities and are punished not only by denying them their freedom but by humiliating them and denying them their humanity.
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