Israel's Descent into Madness, part 15 b...

Quite incredulous at first, I saw a newsticker on Jeera claiming 'Palestinian man convicted of rape for pretending to be Jewish' or words to that effect. This sounded positively bizarre: an Arab conspiracy theory? Tragicomically speaking, alas not. JsF ran the story via Ha'aretz:

An Arab resident of Jerusalem who had consensual sex with a woman who believed him to be Jewish, was convicted yesterday of rape by deception and sentenced to 18 months in prison by the Jerusalem District Court.

Sabbar Kashur, 30, was convicted as part of a plea bargain. According to the indictment, Kashur met the complainant in September 2008 in downtown Jerusalem, presenting himself as a Jewish bachelor looking for a serious romantic relationship.

The couple then went to a nearby building and had sex, after which Kashur left the building without waiting for the woman to get dressed.

When the woman found Kashur was not a Jew but an Arab, she filed a complaint that resulted in charges of rape and indecent assault.

In the verdict, deputy president of the Jerusalem district court Tzvi Segal, along with fellow judges Moshe Drori and Yoram Noam, wrote that although this wasn't "a classical rape by force," and the sex was consensual, the consent itself was obtained through deception and under false pretenses.

"If she hadn't thought the accused was a Jewish bachelor interested in a serious romantic relationship, she would not have cooperated," the judges wrote.

Segal further wrote that this was not a case to be resolved by having the convicted defendant undertake community service, as was suggested by the defense team in the plea bargain.

It's getting more like Jim Crow every day in the Zionist Thingy... Imagine a French woman pretending to be British, getting convicted for a sexual crime for having had consensual sex with a British man (and leaving him with his pants on his feet...)

I'm disappointed in Ha'aretz for not condemning this parody in the harshest tones.