A quarter of Israeli soldiers admitted to gratuitously humiliating Palestinians.

Evidence

A 2006 report in the mass-circulation Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot has at least 25 percent of Israeli soldiers admitting to humiliating Palestinians just for the sake of it. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 695

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking, citable statistic — 25% of soldiers humiliating people ‘just for the sake of it’ — that lands well in conversation.