Just when we thought the New York Times (NYT) could not sink any lower than a tabloid rag, it upped the ante by publishing an article by its star, Pulitzer Prize-winning “journalist” Nicholas Kristof. For those unfamiliar with this charlatan, it is enough to say that he does very little reporting and relies on dubious sources and activist organizations like the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor out of Geneva, Switzerland, Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and other NGOs with a history of anti-Israel bias or whose claims are questionable at best¹. Such is Kristof’s claim to fame, who in the past had to retract and correct information, but not before it had spread like wildfire and often compelled anti-Israel protests. This is the precedent set by the NYT’s journalistic excellence.

The Media Line¹, an NGO monitoring organization, quickly challenged the accusations Kristof leveled against Israel and the prison authorities handling Palestinian prisoners in Israel in the May 11, NYT column. The first challenge was directed at the insidious NGO Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, whose agenda is well documented as biased and anti-Israel. In 2013, the Israeli government identified its founder, Ramy Abdu, as a Hamas operative¹ and his organization as one of Hamas’s main institutions. It is also common knowledge that any “reporting” from Gaza is subject to the Hamas agenda. Consequently, any “journalism” out of Gaza by such NGOs should be taken with a grain of salt, and any newspaper publishing such swill should be considered just as irrelevant.

According to Andrea Peyser² of the New York Post, Ramy Abdu openly supports Hamas and referred to the murderers involved in the October 7th attacks as “heroic knights.” This is the type of source that Nicholas Kristof relies on for his anti-Israel columns. Even after being caught in a controversy regarding a photo of a starving child—originally captured by the prize-winning photographer Saher Alghorra, who falsely claimed it illustrated Israel’s policy of starvation—it was later shown that the child’s condition stemmed from cerebral palsy and was unrelated to starvation. Despite this incident, Kristof continues to work with Alghorra². Such actions highlight the ethical standards of Kristof and the NYT, which currently stands firmly behind........

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