Abstract: This essay proposes a discursive shift from the “Palestine exception” to the “Israel exemption” from accountability, in order to recenter Israel’s culpability. It documents the long record of Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians, beginning in 1948, and peaking during the current intensified genocide. The author argues that this pattern of sexual violence is a feature of settler colonialism and racism, and that Global North feminists’ outrage over allegations of Palestinian rape of Israelis on October 7 while ignoring verified Palestinian experiences illustrates the exceptionalization of Israel. The author concludes by examining how Israel and its allies continue to weaponize antisemitism and feminism to exempt it from its crimes.