Remember  that rape case in Israel,  the one that made quite a splash around the world a few weeks ago? The gist of the story was that an Arab man had been convicted of rape because he pretended to be Jewish  in order to get a Jewish woman to have sex with him. The usual chorus piped up with claims that this incident proved the inherent  racism of Israelis/Jews and the untenable and repugnant and unacceptable nature of Zionism.

Well, guess what? The whole thing turns out to have been a a lot more complex that it seemed at the time. Lisa Goldman has the full story here. Money quote:

There are few unassailable facts or bottom lines here. A woman who may or may not have been raped is in a psychiatric hospital, traumatized and unable to communicate coherently. Perhaps a rapist who should have have been jailed is now a free man, wandering around Jerusalem shopping malls with his kids while the woman he raped is institutionalized, physically and emotionally traumatized. Or perhaps an innocent man was forced to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit, in order to avoid being sentenced to jail by judges who were biased against Arabs.

Now go and read the rest yourself.