Whatever crimes were committed at Sedé Teiman and other bases/prisons need to be investigated and the perpetrators need to be tried and fully punished, not just for immediate justice but to reform the popular indifference in too many circles towards war crimes, crimes against Israeli law, and crimes against the human conscience. The accusations are horrific. Examples must be made.
However.
It’s possible to effectively critique the rhetorical mobilization of “terrorism” to selectively punish certain classes of actors and deny them due process, without making a false equivalence between Hamas and the IDF.
The fact that most Palestinians’ experience of the IDF is understandably (and inexcusably, from my religious Zionist perspective) one of occupation, siege, or bombing, does not make the IDF the same as the military wing of an organization chartered to genocide Israelis, or the crimes of IDF soldiers – who are investigated and punished for violating Israeli and international law, even under a political regime trying its damnedest to defend and excuse them – similar to the crimes of Hamas soldiers, who violate international law (and sharia) with impunity as a matter of strategy, tactics, and ideology.
I don’t think the IDF deserves to be put on a pedestal – it’s just an army and it’s susceptible to the same lapses and crimes as any army. And the blindness of many Israelis towards the crimes committed by some of their sons and daughters deserves outspoken criticism, *primarily* from other Israelis and Jewish people. But this equivocation with Hamas is part of a parallel blindness towards fascism (and an affliction of latent antisemitism, among other things) that infects the meritorious pro-Palestinian movement.