As I reported on Monday, The New York Times published an opinion piece — not a news piece, but an opinion piece — by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof, called "The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians." In his piece, Kristof interviewed 14 people … and also repeated the claim that the IDF had trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. Kristof's point was that if we were going to be outraged about sexual violence at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, then we should also be outraged about the rape of Palestinian prisoners at the hands of Israelis.
Kristof managed to piss off a good number of his followers by claiming that sexual assault occurred on October 7 — the deniers are plentiful, and they are vocal that there is no evidence. Which was funny, because Kristof's piece looked an awful lot like an attempt to head off a 300-page report released the following day, reporting on a two-year study of 10,000 photographs and videos of the attack, totalling more than 1,800 hours of visual analysis.
Kristof should forever be known as the dog rape guy. As our own Just Mindy reported, Kristof cited at least three different medical journal articles discussing rectal injuries in humans from anal penetration by dogs. Only he got it backward. The medical journals discussed bestiality … humans literally screwing the pooch.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Thursday that Israel would be suing The New York Times.
Today I instructed my legal advisers to consider the harshest legal action against The New York Times and Nicholas Kristof.
— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) May 14, 2026
They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas…
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… and Israel’s valiant soldiers.
Under my leadership, Israel will not be silent.
We will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law.
Truth will prevail.
Podcaster Hasan Piker, who fangirled over guest Ilhan Omar and who some say should campaign with all Democratic candidates, also said America deserved 9/11 and that Hamas was 1000 times better than the IDF. He's buddied up with Cori Bush, AOC, Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and the Obama bros. And he says Israel's lawsuit is simply to punish dissent. By all means, Democrats, he's all yours.
we all know israel did this, the reporting is reliable- backed by decades of palestinian testimony. the point isn’t to successfully change minds. it’s to punish dissent. https://t.co/qFcI2nvZum
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) May 14, 2026
One of the "objective" lawyers Kristof relied on thinks that Israelis are worse than Hitler. Can't make this stuff up.
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 14, 2026
Someone like that would surely never lie or exaggerate to make Israel look bad, amirite?
Another major source is Euro Med Monitor, a Hamas mouthpiece... pic.twitter.com/KF2yQCWIM3
You got any forensic evidence tho? Because that is what you asked for when it was about the Israeli victims...
— yona mizrahi (@MizrahiYon15271) May 14, 2026
Testimony from terrorist liars isn’t the clout you think it is.
— Ls321 (@Ls31234) May 14, 2026
Oh right, because the Palestinians are known for their reliable testimony. This guy is such a clown.
— Arf McGarf (@ArfMcGarf) May 14, 2026
By Palestinian testimony, you mean terrorist with an agenda?
— Roger (@sti11twitt3r) May 14, 2026
You don’t believe in credible sources you care about those that enforce your own narrative. People from all sides are calling his sourcing suspect at best. Feel free to be intellectually dishonest as usual
— Hypocrisy101 (@dy3s6fn2) May 14, 2026
The New York Times put out a statement backing up Kristof's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism. They're all-in on the dog-rape story.
Rubbish. The NYT is already backtracking on this report admitting it never fact checked the article.
— Anton Pedantic (@AntonPedantic) May 14, 2026
That's why they ran it as an opinion piece and have yet to follow up with any news stories about the claims.
Ok, let's take it to court. Sounds fair. The lawsuit continues.
— ohad bracha (@obredpigeons) May 14, 2026
As I said, The New York Times is all-in on Kristof's reporting. A lawsuit should be interesting.
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