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The Times’ Israel abuse claims: Letters to the Editor — May 20, 2026

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The Issue: Benjamin Netanyahu suing The New York Times for an alleged attack piece by Nicholas Kristof.

Nicholas Kristof’s column on the alleged sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees reads less like reporting than the application of a new journalistic standard: Believe All Israel Haters (“Left’s turn on Israel complete,” Michael Goodwin, May 17).

He leaned on circular sourcing, citing people embedded in the activist ecosystem of Hamas-governed Gaza while presenting overlapping NGOs, recycled testimony and mutually referential reports as if they constituted independent corroboration.

The piece appeared just before the release of an Israeli report documenting sexual violence committed by Hamas on Oct. 7.

Clearly, the goal was to manufacture moral equivalence between documented atrocities and allegations resting on contested sourcing.

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While Kristof’s recounting may be anecdotal, not one of The Post’s readers seemed to believe there’s any possibility it could be true, despite many noted Israeli authors and historians, such as Omer Bartov, repeatedly condemning the apartheid taking place in Israel.

Somehow,........

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