{"id":317786,"date":"2025-11-02T08:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317786"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:57:19","slug":"they-hung-me-like-a-pig-on-a-stick-jewish-american-journalist-recalls-torture-in-israeli-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317786","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They hung me like a pig on a stick\u2019: Jewish-American journalist recalls torture in Israeli jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The crew of the Gaza-bound Madleen ship before leaving the port of Catania, southern Italy, on June 1, 2025<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Nov 1, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>A Jewish-American journalist who was detained in the occupied territories after joining a Gaza-bound aid flotilla has recalled\u00a0witnessing and personally experiencing torture alongside Palestinian detainees in an Israeli prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Noa Avishag Schnall, a Jewish-American who took part in the\u00a0Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), shared her account in a video posted on her X account on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to us in the light does not hold a candle to what happens every day&#8211; and continues to happen to our Palestinian siblings in the dark. No comparison,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This U.S. journalist was held in an Israeli torture prison at the same time as some of the Palestinian detainees recently returned to Gaza: \u201cWhat happened to us in the light does not hold a candle to what happens &#8230; to our Palestinian siblings in the dark.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XYT4uRRDCA\">pic.twitter.com\/XYT4uRRDCA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AJ+ (@ajplus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajplus\/status\/1984516002902859945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The journalist went on to say that she was beaten by prison guards after being shackled hand and foot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hung me like a pig on a stick, if you can imagine that. And then brought me into the room and just went for it on my skull, and my stomach, and my ear,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Schnall also noted that one of the guards sat on her neck and face to the point she could not breathe, adding that the restraints left her with bruised ankles and numb fingers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew I could endure, that there was an expiration date. I knew we were getting out.\u00a0 I have an American passport. Palestinians have no such luxury,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Schnall further said she joined the flotilla out of \u201cpersonal responsibility,\u201d and described \u201covert racism\u201d in how detainees were treated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Tunisian comrade, our Turkish comrade, who they just assumed was Arab\u2014I saw them immediately being selected, and those people got it the worst. I saw it myself. I saw their bloody bodies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Schnall, Israeli forces separated men and women before transferring them to Ketziot Prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe men told us they were awoken by threatening dogs and the soldiers holding guns,\u201d she said. &#8220;The women, including our cell, were woken with threats of rape. Everything was like a psychological torture and elements of sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schnall further said that one day after Israel released the last of the flotilla detainees, it began freeing 2,000 Palestinians\u2014around 1,700 from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that we get released before they do is just the unjustness of a passport, of a nationality. You see the bodies that are being returned now\u2014bodies that show signs of torture, execution, some not even identifiable, they still had restraints on them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that happened at Ketziot and other prisons,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Schnall was among dozens of journalists and activists who sailed aboard The Conscience\u2014the lead vessel of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition\u2014which attempted to break the Israeli regime\u2019s longtime blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli troops intercepted the flotilla in international waters on October 8, boarding the ships and taking the participants into custody. The detainees were later transferred to Israeli prisons, including the Ketziot facility in the Negev Desert, which is notorious for torture and inhumane treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups estimate that Israel currently holds more than 9,000 Palestinians in prisons and detention centers, including women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Rights organizations have repeatedly called for independent investigations into rights abuses against Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2025\/11\/01\/757991\/Palestine-Israel-American-journalist-describes-witnessing-torture-Israeli-[prison-detained-participating-Freedom-Flotilla-Coalition\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Noa Avishag Schnall notes: \u201cI knew I could endure &#8230; I knew we were getting out. I have an American passport. Palestinians have no such luxury\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":317787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317788,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317786\/revisions\/317788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/317787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}