A Miscarriage of Journalism at ‘The New York Times’
The op-ed relied on interviews and reports as critics challenged its sources and timing, while Israel accused The New York Times of publishing a blood libel.
- New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof sparked controversy with an op-ed claiming a "pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence" against Palestinians, drawing on interviews with 14 alleged victims in the West Bank and detention facilities.
- Critics questioned the op-ed's credibility, citing inconsistencies in testimonies from sources like Sami al-Sai and Issa Amro, and condemned the inclusion of allegations that Israeli prison guards trained dogs to sexually assault detainees.
- Dog trainer Reuven Weinstein disputed the canine allegations as biologically impossible, while media watchdog Honest Reporting raised concerns about al-Sai's previous praise of Hamas and discrepancies between his accounts to different outlets.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced Thursday they directed a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, with Netanyahu calling the article a "blood libel" regarding rape allegations.
- The Foreign Ministry accused the publication of timing the piece to undermine a Civil Commission report on Hamas's October 7 crimes published the day after, while Kristof acknowledged lacking evidence of state-ordered rape.
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A Miscarriage of Journalism at ‘The New York Times’
Nicholas Kristof’s recent essay about supposed Israeli sex crimes against Palestinian detainees is a travesty—not simply because it’s wrong as a matter of fact, or because it regurgitates long-debunked blood libels against the Jewish state at a time of rising antisemitism around the world.It’s a travesty because it embraces the erosion of democratic norms at an inflection point in our history. Since our founding, the American political experimen…
May 18, 2026 The pro-Israel community has been complaining about The New York Times since the 1970s. In fact, anger over the attitude of the so-called “reference newspaper” toward Jews dates back much earlier. Above all, the way in which it silenced the coverage of the Holocaust because its owners, assimilated Jews, did not want to highlight the anti-Semitic crimes committed by German Nazis and their collaborators, remains one of the darkest cha…
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