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Source: https://www.thefp.com/p/nick-kristof-dog-torture-claim-israel-palestine?hide_intro_popup=true
New York Times Claims about Israel Don't Pass Muster
(Free Press) Eli Lake - New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof said he shared the abuse allegations with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and sought his reaction. "Do I believe it happens? Definitely," Kristof recorded Olmert as saying. Yet Olmert later said that Kristof misrepresented their conversation. In a statement sent to the Times, Olmert said: "Mr. Kristof's article includes claims of extraordinary gravity: that Israeli authorities have directed the rape of children, that dogs have been used as instruments of sexual assault, that systematic sexual torture is state policy. I did not validate these claims. 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." The story of trained rape dogs also does not hold up. Brandon McMillan, the three-time Emmy-winning host of CBS's "Lucky Dog," who has spent 25 years training animals, told me, "I don't see how you would train a dog to do that." Male dogs become erect only when they smell the pheromones of a female dog in heat. "The dog has to get turned on, for lack of a better word." Kristof cites the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which amplified the dog rape claims in April. This group has a history of spreading libel against Israel, such as a November 2023 report that raised "concerns" that the IDF was harvesting the organs of Palestinian corpses.