Tel Aviv District Court Judge Sheli Timen, who retired this week, blamed feminist pressure for unjust verdicts in criminal cases, in an interview with Haaretz. Timen was asked about the extraordinarily high rate of guilty verdicts in the Israeli system and said the situation was particularly bad in cases of sexual allegations.
"It happens because of social, media pressure, by the women's lobbies," Timen said. "Most rape cases aren't street rapes, but date rapes. It comes down to 'did she agree or not'? There is no need to prove use of force. The verdicts nowadays are such that the complainant need not have moved, because she was supposedly petrified and couldn't make a sound… The problem is that it is very hard to fight [an allegation like this – ed.] after 25 years, when there is no evidence… There is no other offense, other than crimes by Nazis and their accomplices, which has no statute of limitations."
"I am afraid of false complaints," Timen explained. He added: "Note that they do not prosecute the women who filed false complaints, because of the supposed need to encourage complainants… There is fear among us, and that fear is of public opinion. It cannot be ignored. When certain bodies persuade and lift their voices, it works. The result is that the feminists, who do excellent work from their perspective, use their lobby to make sentencing harsher. A person charged with sexual offenses will almost certainly go to jail, and his family will be destroyed. And if there is a false complaint, G-d forbid – it doesn't matter. That is the atmosphere today. They mob you after every 'innocent' verdict."