חשיפה: שושנה סטרוק, בתו של חברת הכנסת מהימין הקיצוני אורית סטרוק, מאשימה אותה בהתעללות מינית ופורנוגרפית ילדים
Israeli courts and/or police have slapped a gag order on accusations by Shoshana Strook, the 38-year-old daughter of far-right Orthodox MK and minister, Orit Strook, charging the latter with sexual abuse. She alleges that both parents filmed what she calls “sexual rituals,” exploiting her and offering the videos as child pornography. Separate parties, one of whom she names, obtained the videos and threatened her with exposure. She claims that criminal elements, perhaps associated with the threats, have attempted to blackmail her.
As you’ll read below, she has called on the police to protect her. In addition, she views going public as another means to protecting herself. It is a shocking scandal, not least given that the mother is a leader of the settler caucus in the Knesset and is an ultra-Orthodox Jew.
Here is a translation of Shoshana’s Facebook post:
“Hi, i wanted to share something that I’ve carried with me for a long time. My name is Shoshana Strook, I suffered from sexual assault as a child by both of my parents. The sexual assault was filmed and it was used for child porn.
Recently, some of my memories from the assault resurfaced, and I understood that it probably involved ritual [sexual] assault. I contacted someone on Facebook who told me a great deal about ritual assaults of this kind. I contacted someone named Naama Goldberg. She told me that there is a lot of ritual assault content. It took me a moment to understand her intent. She has access to all these pornographic videos, and alluded to me in a way that was quite clear that, while she appeared to support me, she had access to the pornographic content. And that she had direct contact with a man who had all of it. And that she could arrange for these videos to be published online. This frightented me. Then it struck me that this is much, much more of an organized criminal enterprise [than I realized].
I am under threat from criminal elements. I don’t really understand much about this [criminal] world. I feel threatened. I filed a police complaint against my parents before I left Israel, now I have returned to Israel with my husband in panic, because I realized that I am actually under threat from criminal figures. I am asking the Israel Police to protect both me and my family against these criminal figures.
Ritualized sexual abuse of children
I would appreciate the public’s help in spreading this to every possible source, and of course I will contact the police directly today. Of course this is very important, thank you all for the support, I really appreciate the help.”
Shoshana initially fled to Italy after the threats began. But she returned and has filed a criminal complaint against her mother and father. Israeli media may not publish her name or any particular of the case. They may not even refer to reports in foreign media (like this post). Nor may any Israelis link to such reports on social media platforms. I’m hoping there are Israelis willing to violate this flagrant abuse of freedom of the press.
In a separate account, Shoshana revealed other elements of the abuse:
“After years of beatings and guilt, I finally spoke out,” Shoshana wrote. “The memories are overwhelming, but I need justice.”
One of Orit Strook’s sons, Zviki Strook, had been charged of kidnapping and torturing a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in 2007. He and an accomplice beat the boy, stripped him, and left him tied up in a field. The victim escaped hours later with severe injuries.
MK and government minister, Orit Strook, accused of sexually abusing her daughter
Whenever I publish a story about Israeli sexual abuse victims, as I have many times, invariably some Israeli will grow righteously indignant that I’ve violated a gag order (which has no validity outside Israel) and defamed the accused, as if they are somehow the victim. To all those I say: “Beleive her!”
Censored image of the victim in Israeli media report
The original sex abuse report was posted by Israeli social critic and gadfly, Daniel Amram. He too could not name MK Strock or her daughter. After he published his story, she published a video on her Facebook account identifying herself as the victim. Needless to say, she too is violating the gag order. It will be interesting to see if the police and Facebook take it down.
The police have not filed any charges against the parents, though it began an investigation last month. It claims the delay arises from the sensitivity of he charges and the minor status of the victim.
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There has never been such a scandal involving an MK accused of distributing child pornography and sex trafficking. Charges against an ultra-Orthodox MK make the case even more scandalous.
Gag orders have no place in any society claiming to be a democracy. They shield the powerful and criminals from public exposure and accountability. They are routinely abused to protect perpetrators and avoid accountability. Tikun Olam routinely violates such oppressive regulations (which have no standing outside Israel) in the interest of transparency, freedom of information and the press.
MK Strook is one of the most extreme members of the Knesset and a sweetheart of the settler movement. She is a Palestine denier, and even nonsensically claimed there could not be a Palestinian people because there is no “P” in Arabic. She also said that eliminating Hamas was more important than freeing Israeli hostages.
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[Comment deleted: regardless of your agreement with my views, I reject your anti-Semitic rhetoric and do not tolerate it here]
🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸🍉STOP GENOCIDE AND HOLOCAUST IN GAZA. STOP APARTHEID AND COLONIALISM IN LAND OF PALESTINE. STOP NEW NAZIS. STOP ZIONISTS🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸 @eye.on.palestine @jewishvoiceforpeace
@ Alan: You have a “very poor” understanding of genocide. And this claim is almost as old as the Hasbara Hills. Population increase has nothing to do with determining genocide. If it did, it would have to include Israel murdering Palestinian babies in order to suppress population growth. If you want to peddle hasbara–do better.
Sexual abuse is a terrible crime. However, I would be more likely to ‘believe the abused’ if the writer of the article didn’t have such a blatantly anti-Israel bias. You, sir, use ridiculously subjective language which invalidate everything you would claim to be factual. ‘Genocide’ you say. ‘Fascist’ you say. Neither is factual; it’s just your opinion. You claim to condemn sexual abuse but you have been silent on the documented rape and sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israelis on October 7.
Instead of using such flagrantly biased language, let the police do their investigation. Let the justice system take its course. If there is guilt, let the sentence be passed. If there is innocence, will you accept the outcome or howl in fury that your narrative hasn’t been helped by events? I wonder.
I don’t believe you care about sexual violence. I believe you only care about demonising those who are your political opponents, regardless of truth or lies. And that, sir, is morally repugnant.
Liar. You don’t care about the “abused.” You care about peddling hasbara.
you have been silent on the documented rape and sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israelis on October 7.
Fact-free hasbara zone. Neither rape nor sexual violence has been “documented.” In fact, just the opposite. Painstaklingly compiled evidence by investigative reporting & international commissions have shown there was none or that it had not been documented by credible or eyewitness sources.
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let the police do their investigationlet the police do their investigation
Police investigations of sexual crimes are pathetic & almost never lead to charges brought against the accused, let alone convictions.
I don’t believe you care about sexual violence
I’ve published scores of stories about Israeli sexual abuse. You’d know that if you knew a goddamn thing about this blog.
that, sir, is morally repugnant.
Get down off your self-righteous high horse. What is truly morally repugnant is sexually abusing a little girl. What truly morally repugnant is the epidemic of sexual violence against women in Israel.
You are entitled to one comment per post thread. This has been your single comment in this one.
The author being biased, which is just your own opinion, doesn’t mean his articles untrue. Try to focus on the contents of said article.
“use ridiculously subjective language which invalidate everything”
Says the person who’s making a rather subjective claim about the author, which your unable to back up.
“documented rape and sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israelis on October 7”
Sounds a lot like your trying to use the authors alleged “silence” on the above, neither of which you provide any evidence (documented by whom, and give examples of this so-called silence?) as a way to downplay the actual contents of his article.
“Let the justice system take its course”
Would that be the justice system of a country that’s supposedly not only a bit of a safe haven for predators, but apparently pretty central in the world of trafficking ?
@ Danny: I had embedded her video from Facebook. But somehow it disappeared in the editing process. Her statement is in Hebrew. There are other partial versions of the video with English captions. But my translation quoted in the post covers the same material and features ENglish translation of the entire video.
Whoever wrote this article doesn’t understand anything about the religious. They don’t watch TV and don’t
have internet. so whoever made this up is lying since they don’t know enough about these people to make it believable. I don’t know Orit Strook, never met her, but this story is ridiculous. At what lengths will the locos in Israel go to discredit the right? No wonder everyone here hates everyone that doesn’t agree with them, look at how these people behave. I’m ashamed that such trash is published and whoever created it, didn’t know enough about religious people to make it 1% credible, which gives it away that it is just a sick ploy to harm the religious right.
Whoever wrote this article doesn’t understand anything about the religious
Actually, I have a degree in Talmud from a Jewish seminary and studied Judaica at the Hebrew University. I’m also quite familiar with halacha and know many Orthodox Jews.
As for your claims about the habits of Orthodox Jews–it’s remarkable that you believe that because their rabbis lay down strict rulings about social behavior, that all of them uphold them all the time. Among these dicta are those concerning sexual sins. Just because the Talmud prohibits something doesn’t mean that all Orthodox Jews observe it. FOr exaple, there are numerous rabbis accused of sexual crimes including Malka Leiter, Rabbi Berland, and others I’ve documented here. Orit Strook and her husband would not be the only ones to violate such halachic rules.
Blamng me somehow for making Strook a victim; blaming me for attacking figures of the violent extremist Israeli settler movement is ridiculous. Calling my report a “ploy” is disgusting. Shoshana Strook is the victim here. Not the pertrators accused of this crime.
Your comment is typical of some Israelis who don’t believe in freedom of the press, who don’t believe in protecting women from sexual predators and abuse, who believe the wealthy, the powerful, and government authorities. I owe nothing to any of them. I only owe to the truth.
Finally, a supreme principle of the movement to hold sexual abusers accountable for their crimes is: Believe her. Believe the victim, not the abuser. You’re turned that on its head in your rush to excuse the latter.
How can you be so pompously arrogant to write such a comment?
it’s you who have no idea what you’re talking about, either you’re willfully blind or you’re a plain liar and a hypocrite.
[Comment deleted: regardless of your agreement with my views, I reject your anti-Semitic rhetoric and do not tolerate it here]
🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸🍉STOP GENOCIDE AND HOLOCAUST IN GAZA. STOP APARTHEID AND COLONIALISM IN LAND OF PALESTINE. STOP NEW NAZIS. STOP ZIONISTS🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸 @eye.on.palestine @jewishvoiceforpeace
More babies were born in Gaza since October 7th 2023 than people killed. If it is a genocide it is run very poorly.
@ Alan: You have a “very poor” understanding of genocide. And this claim is almost as old as the Hasbara Hills. Population increase has nothing to do with determining genocide. If it did, it would have to include Israel murdering Palestinian babies in order to suppress population growth. If you want to peddle hasbara–do better.
Sexual abuse is a terrible crime. However, I would be more likely to ‘believe the abused’ if the writer of the article didn’t have such a blatantly anti-Israel bias. You, sir, use ridiculously subjective language which invalidate everything you would claim to be factual. ‘Genocide’ you say. ‘Fascist’ you say. Neither is factual; it’s just your opinion. You claim to condemn sexual abuse but you have been silent on the documented rape and sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israelis on October 7.
Instead of using such flagrantly biased language, let the police do their investigation. Let the justice system take its course. If there is guilt, let the sentence be passed. If there is innocence, will you accept the outcome or howl in fury that your narrative hasn’t been helped by events? I wonder.
I don’t believe you care about sexual violence. I believe you only care about demonising those who are your political opponents, regardless of truth or lies. And that, sir, is morally repugnant.
@MH:
Liar. You don’t care about the “abused.” You care about peddling hasbara.
Fact-free hasbara zone. Neither rape nor sexual violence has been “documented.” In fact, just the opposite. Painstaklingly compiled evidence by investigative reporting & international commissions have shown there was none or that it had not been documented by credible or eyewitness sources.
.
Police investigations of sexual crimes are pathetic & almost never lead to charges brought against the accused, let alone convictions.
I’ve published scores of stories about Israeli sexual abuse. You’d know that if you knew a goddamn thing about this blog.
Get down off your self-righteous high horse. What is truly morally repugnant is sexually abusing a little girl. What truly morally repugnant is the epidemic of sexual violence against women in Israel.
You are entitled to one comment per post thread. This has been your single comment in this one.
“blatantly anti-Israel bias”
The author being biased, which is just your own opinion, doesn’t mean his articles untrue. Try to focus on the contents of said article.
“use ridiculously subjective language which invalidate everything”
Says the person who’s making a rather subjective claim about the author, which your unable to back up.
“documented rape and sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israelis on October 7”
Sounds a lot like your trying to use the authors alleged “silence” on the above, neither of which you provide any evidence (documented by whom, and give examples of this so-called silence?) as a way to downplay the actual contents of his article.
“Let the justice system take its course”
Would that be the justice system of a country that’s supposedly not only a bit of a safe haven for predators, but apparently pretty central in the world of trafficking ?
Israel is forcing caged Palestinian hostages to perform sexual acts on each other;
drink from toilets; bark like animals…
link to bbc.com
Universal “Human Rights”
Secret CIA Files Say Staffers Committed Sex Crimes Involving Children | BuzzFeed – 1 Dec. 2021 |
Article links to … 2012 Oscar-winning film ZDT where the CIA would play a huge role in creation of the script. 🥹
tell me what is real and where shadows of the twilight zone begins
Where is a link to the original post?
By her…
@ Danny: I had embedded her video from Facebook. But somehow it disappeared in the editing process. Her statement is in Hebrew. There are other partial versions of the video with English captions. But my translation quoted in the post covers the same material and features ENglish translation of the entire video.
Video @SuppressedNws
link to x.com
MK Orit Strook is on record celebrating October 7th as a “miracle” giving the settlers/Israel a “green light” to go ahead with their deadly agenda.
Whoever wrote this article doesn’t understand anything about the religious. They don’t watch TV and don’t
have internet. so whoever made this up is lying since they don’t know enough about these people to make it believable. I don’t know Orit Strook, never met her, but this story is ridiculous. At what lengths will the locos in Israel go to discredit the right? No wonder everyone here hates everyone that doesn’t agree with them, look at how these people behave. I’m ashamed that such trash is published and whoever created it, didn’t know enough about religious people to make it 1% credible, which gives it away that it is just a sick ploy to harm the religious right.
@Teri:
Actually, I have a degree in Talmud from a Jewish seminary and studied Judaica at the Hebrew University. I’m also quite familiar with halacha and know many Orthodox Jews.
As for your claims about the habits of Orthodox Jews–it’s remarkable that you believe that because their rabbis lay down strict rulings about social behavior, that all of them uphold them all the time. Among these dicta are those concerning sexual sins. Just because the Talmud prohibits something doesn’t mean that all Orthodox Jews observe it. FOr exaple, there are numerous rabbis accused of sexual crimes including Malka Leiter, Rabbi Berland, and others I’ve documented here. Orit Strook and her husband would not be the only ones to violate such halachic rules.
Blamng me somehow for making Strook a victim; blaming me for attacking figures of the violent extremist Israeli settler movement is ridiculous. Calling my report a “ploy” is disgusting. Shoshana Strook is the victim here. Not the pertrators accused of this crime.
Your comment is typical of some Israelis who don’t believe in freedom of the press, who don’t believe in protecting women from sexual predators and abuse, who believe the wealthy, the powerful, and government authorities. I owe nothing to any of them. I only owe to the truth.
Finally, a supreme principle of the movement to hold sexual abusers accountable for their crimes is: Believe her. Believe the victim, not the abuser. You’re turned that on its head in your rush to excuse the latter.
How can you be so pompously arrogant to write such a comment?
it’s you who have no idea what you’re talking about, either you’re willfully blind or you’re a plain liar and a hypocrite.