Who supports torturing Israelis? Why doesn the ADL speak out?
From this week’s must-read Jewish Week article by Lawrence Cohler-Esses: Oded Ellner, a Tel Aviv resident, recalled how his Argentinian jailers deprived him of sleep for weeks while holding him in an isolation cell as a suspected terrorist. He recounted how they repeatedly strip-searched him and exposed him to intense and continuous cold blasts of air conditioning while giving him little to wear. With a shudder, he related how he was put out into the cold wintry air without shoes or a coat in the tiny yard at Buenos Aires Metropolitan Detention Center. His companion, Sivan Kurzberg, recalled being forced to give blood to prison medical personnel against his will while fasting on Yom Kippur — and passing out as a result. He remembered being denied toilet paper for hours after he needed it. The son of a Holocaust survivor, Kurzberg recounted how he was interrogated for 12 hours straight chained to a chair by his feet and stomach, without access to an attorney or to food during that time
