Chapter 4 examines references to ethnicity in accounts of sexual offences, with attention to the ethnic identity of both the narrators and their audiences. The British-orchestrated judicial and prosecutorial system downplayed the significance of participants’ ethnic origin. Manifest disregard of ethnicity buttressed the image of the British as impartial rulers. Nevertheless, occasional derogatory remarks betrayed prejudice against Palestinian natives. In contrast to the British pretence of impartiality though, Arab defendants often invoked ethnic labels. Arab advocates sometimes portrayed the ethnicity of their clients as a mitigating circumstance, trying to sway British judges by manipulating their possible prejudices. Implicit in the use of ethnic labels was the implausibility of deliberate inter-ethnic rape and the plausibility of backwardness as a mitigating factor. The Jewish community also made use of ethnic labels, though within the bounds of the community and not inside the courtroom. The accounts of the Hebrew press had a clear ethnic character, marking the boundaries between the Jewish and Arab communities and reinforcing a separation that was not only symbolic but also physical. Within the confines of the Jewish community, it was plausible to cast Arabs as likely sexual perpetrators, especially dangerous to children and young Jewish women.