Nick Kristof of the New York Times has created a new breed of Israeli dogs.

There was a time long ago in a distant galaxy when I used to read the NYTimes opinion page. Before Obama, there were here and there some interesting thought pieces, but with the rise of Obama, the articles became unreadable. Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd and the rest became leftist partisans and oftentimes admitted as much. Krugman, the erstwhile Nobel Laureate, wrote a tome, Conscience of a Liberal, as if lefties actually have a conscience. The one person whose work I could not stomach was that of Nick Kristof. I always found his positions to be anti-Israel and also written by someone who didn’t have too many neurons upstairs.

A former college roommate mentioned that he recently attended a local Harvard Club event in Oregon, and lo and behold, native son Kristof was the speaker. He talked about the scourge of addiction and its challenges in Oregon. He also mentioned that he owns a winery. It reminded me of the armchair ice cream multimillionaires, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who fight for lefty causes from the comfort of their air-conditioned existence. Kristof isn’t in the trenches, but he wants to pretend that he is and that his scribblings are important and relevant.

Kristof has set the Israeli and Jewish worlds on fire by accusing Israeli soldiers — and their dogs — of raping Palestinian security prisoners. These guys, hopefully, will soon have public trials and be executed for their roles in the October 7, 2023, pogrom in the south of Israel. Kristof used the seventh-grade method of determining an outcome of a writing assignment and then looking for sources to prove whatever point he wanted to make. His sources include known Israel haters and pro-Palestinian dreck. So what was Kristof the winemaker’s purpose? It was to blunt an actual, thoroughly researched report on Hamas’s organized, pre-planned sexual violence against........

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