Defamation Against Israel by The New York Times –- Again |
It is time –- again –-for The New York Times to take out its mea culpa pad.
Shortly after the war broke out between Israel and Hamas following Hamas’ October 7 massacre, The Times ran a story, implying that Israel was responsible for killing 500 civilians in a bombing near a hospital in Gaza.
The story wasn’t true; a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad was responsible and The Times apologized, stating:
“…Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.”
Well, they could rerun that same apology for a recent piece by Nicholas Kristof who charged in a column that Palestinians have told him that there is “a pattern of widespread Israel sexual violence against men, women and even children…” by Israeli settlers, IDF soldiers and prison guards.
It is a gripping column titled, “The Silence that Meets the Rape of Palestinians.” I will spare readers the emotional trauma by not quoting the alleged offenses.
But let’s parse Kristof’s column from an objective journalistic standpoint.
–-He writes that the column is based on “conservations” with 14 men and women who claimed to have been sexually abused. Only a couple are named, and he accepts the charges because he talked to family members, lawyers, witnesses and “others.” None of this, of course, adds up to corroboration and I am confident readers would like to know who are the “others.”
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