Kristof tipped his hand
Nicholas Kristof is the current buzz in the Jewish world due to his opinion piece in the New York Times whereby his posits that there is “a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children – by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards.” Any caring, feeling reader will certainly agree that any amount of sexual violence is horrific and Israel must investigate the claims in the article, must stop any such abuses, must treat the victims and must prosecute the perpetrators.
Are the claims of such sexual violence true? Each of the named victims in the article, as well as the institutional and non-NGO sources of his information, have been subject to valid scrutiny, and at the same time the New York Times has defended Kristof’s methodology of investigation. Are Kristof and the New York Times calculating agents who ran the article exactly when they were informed that Israel was going to make public its Civil Commission Report on Hamas rape on October 7 in order to distract from the Report? Perhaps the timing of the NY Times Kristof piece was just coincidental to the release of the report?
Definitive answers to any of the above questions are unnecessary to answer a different question: Does Nicholas Kristof have an anti-Israel bias?
Kristof’s own words in his article serve to express, to reveal, and to indict him as a non-objective purveyor of inflammatory accusation against Israel, when he writes, “Think of it this way: The horrific abuse inflicted on Israeli women on Oct. 7 now happens to Palestinians day after day.”
WTF.
Even if 100% of the reported abuse against Palestinian prisoners in his article is true – to make the claim that Israel is committing October 7-like atrocities against Palestinians every day is to minimize the Hamas obscenities of October 7 against innocents, and, more importantly – Nicholas Kristof participates in the willful characterization of Israel as worse than Hamas.
Now that Kristof has revealed that he is not objective in covering news surrounding the State of Israel – questioning the veracity of his claims against Israel is not only justified, it is necessary.
