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The New York Times's hatred of Israel has blinded it to reality
So Israel is suing the New York Times. Not before time, if you ask me. Particularly since October 7 – the sexual depravities of which were revealed this week in a stomach-churning independent report – America’s paper of record has preoccupied itself with magnifying the most grotesque stories about the Jewish state, giving Hamas the incentive to persevere in their bloodthirsty propaganda strategy. The liberal media is providing the oxygen for the very people it most affects to loathe This week, it was a column by two-time Pulitzer prize winning journalist Nick Kristof, who in the distant past once retweeted a post describing a pro-Israel group as “pigs”. Headlined “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians” – you see what they did there? – it relied upon the testimony of an NGO with well-documented links to Hamas, various anonymous sources and Sami al-Sai, a Gazan “freelance journalist” who appears to have shifted his story. In spite of these questionable sources, Kristof and the New York Times stand by the allegations. Upon this foundation it wove a tissue of the obscenest allegations against Israel, culminating in a claim as ludicrous as it was lurid, that IDF (Israel Defense Forces) personnel managed to train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. (Few things have been more tragic recently than the sight of beleaguered Jews making zoological arguments about canine penises online. As the old saying goes, an antisemite only accuses a Jew of theft to watch him turn out his pockets.) In the column, Kristof quoted former Israeli leader Ehud Olmert as confirming the allegations. After publication, however, Olmert accused the title of distorting his remarks. “I did not validate these claims,” he wrote in a statement. “I have no knowledge supporting these claims, as I said to Mr Kristof. Therefore, the positioning of my quote after pages of such allegations misrepresents my views.” So much for those Pulitzer prizes, huh. Most popular Brendan O’Neill The voters of Makerfield should give Burnham the boot The genius of the shtick is that at its heart there was a grain of credibility. There has indeed been some maltreatment of Palestinian detainees. As a real-life country under immense psychological pressure, Israel has behaved as any other real-life country would in wartime. Just look at our own history. Obviously, these people must face the full force of the law, but can’t the Jewish state be allowed to have its villains, like every other nation, without ...
Zionism and Israel's self-destruction - by Martin Di Caro
What does it mean to be pro-Israel?Historically, it may have meant supporting the Jewish people’s right to establish a state in Palestine in 1948 (78 years ago today, coincidentally). Zionism was indeed born as a national liberation movement to rescue Europe’s Jews from violence and discrimination decades before anyone had heard of Adolf Hitler. After the Holocaust, Zionism was an appeal to tolerance and mercy, an escape from oppression.Today, “pro-Israel” could mean supporting the country’s right to exist in the face of implacable enemies who dream of destroying it, namely Hamas and Hezbollah. A simple definition is: to support policies or conduct beneficial to Israel and its people. If Zionism no longer serves a positive purpose, but has instead become an irrational, violent, expansionist ideology threatening the very survival of Israel’s neighbors in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, and Lebanon, while wrecking the foundations of democracy within Israel itself, then it no longer makes sense to support Zionism.It would also be wrong to equate support for the genocidal Netanyahu government of religious and nationalist maniacs with support for Israel itself. Do Americans who despise the Trump administration automatically become anti-American? Yet criticism of Netanyahu’s wars of annihilation — or publishing a New York Times exposé on the rape of Palestinian prisoners — provokes howls of “antisemitism” and “blood libel.”What follows is a partial transcript of my conversation with historian Omer Bartov about his new book, “Israel: What Went Wrong?”Born in Israel in 1954, a veteran of the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Bartov has been teaching at Brown University since 2000 and is a highly regarded scholar of Nazism, the Holocaust, and genocide. He now argues that Zionism must be discarded for a universalist value system compatible with the presence of millions of Palestinians, most of whom have few or no rights at all.What a terrible twist that most Jewish citizens of a country founded as a refuge for those whom the world had abandoned during their darkest hour are now indifferent to the suffering of others. At least this is what Bartov concludes from conversations with Israeli Jews during multiple visits to Israel since the carnage of Oct. 7, 2023.I encourage you to listen to the whole episode here (or wherever you listen to podcasts). The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.Martin Di Caro: Is your native country on the road to self-destruction, and what woul...
Nakba: Jewish voices are challenging the stories Israel tells about ...
21 hours ago ... “Israeli brutality in the war in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, and the destruction of southern Lebanon have created a crisis between Israel and ...
Israeli officials and their allies complain that describing Israel's ...
12K likes, 1698 comments - zeteo on May 13, 2026: "Israeli officials and their allies complain that describing Israel's genocidal behavior is "blood libel.
