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Man Will Appeal Prison Term for Lying During Seduction in Jerusalem Sabbar Kashur, a married Palestinian man who was convicted of ?rape by deception? by an Israeli court this week, for telling a Jewish woman that he was a Jewish bachelor interested in a long-term relationship before they had consensual sex, will appeal an 18-month prison sentence, according to CNN. As The Lede explained on Wednesday, Mr. Kashur admitted that he lied about his identity when he met the woman, who has not been identified, but continues to insist, after two years of house arrest, that consensual sex ?is not rape.? The Israeli court ruled that his deception about his identity was like a previous case of an Israeli man convicted of rape for posing as a government official and promising to reward women with apartments if they slept with him. This CNN video report on the case, which includes part of an interview with Mr. Kashur from Israeli television, explains that he chatted with the woman for about 15 minutes after they met on a Jerusalem street before she agreed to go into a nearby building and have sex with him: A translation of an article on the case from Maariv, an Israeli newspaper, posted online by Noam Sheizaf, a journalist and blogger in Tel Aviv, explains that the woman changed her account of what transpired between the two that day in 2008 during the trial. Maariv reported: The prosecution first claimed that the complainant actively and significantly objected to the events, but in the course of the trial the young woman testified that she had agreed to the action because she had thought that the person in question was a Jew. In light of that the indictment was amended, and the defendant was accused of rape and indecent actions by way of fraud. While representatives of Israeli rape crisis centers have insisted that lying during seduction is a form of rape, some Israelis have argued that the man would not have been convicted if he had not been an Arab. In a commentary on the case published on Thursday in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Gideon Levy noted that Mr. Kashur had long ago adopted an Israeli-sounding nickname, Dudu: Sabbar Kashur wanted to be a person, a person like everybody else. But as luck would have it, he was born Palestinian. It happens. His chances of being accepted as a human being in Israel are nil. Married and a father of two, he wanted to work in Jerusalem, his city, and maybe also have an affair or a quickie on the side. That happens too. He knew that he had no chance with the Jews, so he adopted another name for himself, Dudu. [...] No longer a youth, Sabbar/Dudu worked as a deliveryman for a lawyer?s office, rode his scooter around Jerusalem and delivered documents, affidavits and sworn testimonies, swearing to everyone that he was Dudu. Two years ago he met a woman by chance. Nice to meet you, my name is Dudu. He claims that she came on to him, but let?s leave the details aside. Soon enough they went where they went and what happened happened, all by consent of the parties concerned. One fine day, a month and a half after an afternoon quickie, he was summoned to the police on suspicion of rape. [...] Now the respected judges have to be asked: If the man was really Dudu posing as Sabbar, a Jew pretending to be an Arab so he could sleep with an Arab woman, would he then be convicted of rape? And do the eminent judges understand the social and racist meaning of their florid verdict? Don?t they realize that their verdict has the uncomfortable smell of racial purity, of ?don?t touch our daughters?? That it expresses the yearning of the extensive segments of society that would like to ban sexual relations between Arabs and Jews?