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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-895947
New York Times Prefers Baseless Claims Against Israelis over Actual Reports of Palestinian Atrocities
(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - A New York Times "opinion" piece posing as an in-depth journalistic investigation, published on Monday, claims that Israel has trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners held in its jails, based on anonymous testimonies and a report by a well-known anti-Israel organization that has proven ties to Palestinian terror. The impossible assertion about dogs has been shared broadly in recent weeks by anti-Israel conspiracy theorists on social media, but to see it displayed front and center in the New York Times is mind-blowing. Even columnist Nicholas Kristof himself admits that "it's impossible to know how common sexual assaults against Palestinians are" - though that does not stop him from going on for almost 4,000 words about the total certainty that Israelis "systematically employ rape and sexual torture" of prisoners. Kristof's column was published and promoted prominently on the Times's website, even including a separately produced video clip, one day ahead of a monumental Israeli report on Hamas's systematic sexual crimes on Oct. 7.