New York Times’ libelous campaign against Israel continues apace

It’s a banner month for Jew-hating propaganda at The New York Times, where libel against the state of Israel is normalized and celebrated.

Last week, jaws dropped everywhere when the so-called Newspaper of Record won a Pulitzer Prize for the 2025 work of a Gaza-based contributing photographer best known for a picture so misleading, fraudulent, so useful in the quest to ramp up antisemitism, the paper was forced to issue a correction.

This was followed by a disgusting and false opinion piece penned by two-time Pulitzer-winning Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, 67, who has a long pattern of getting suckered into promoting hoaxes. In it, he accuses Israelis of frequently and cruelly sexually assaulting mass numbers of Arabs.

It’s a pity I have to draw attention here to such blatant and hideous balderdash. But this is what passes as news to the Gray Lady, and this is what’s held up as great journalism. It cannot be ignored.

First, the photographs.

The prize-winning work of Saher Alghorra, 28, was used to illustrate stories promoting the fiction that Israeli forces were causing famine in Gaza — pieces with such headlines as “No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals.”

His most famous photo was of a purportedly starving child, whose wretched condition was later discovered to have been caused by pre-existing medical conditions including cerebral palsy, not malnutrition.

The truth is that any hunger in Gaza is caused not by Israel but by Hamas terrorists who, after massacring more than 1,200 Jews on Oct.7, 2023, blocked and looted food and medical supplies intended for Palestinians.

At a time of escalating acts of violence committed against Jews worldwide, these types of photos promote violence directed at the Jewish community, which seems to be the point.

It’s no secret that to work in Gaza, writers and photographers must obey the Hamas propaganda line, or get out. This alone should disqualify him, from being honored with journalism’s most coveted prize.

Then, on Monday, Kristof’s column continued The Times campaign against Israel. In it, he accuses people from Israel of creating a vast “pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women, and even children” of Arabs.

That’s quite an accusation. Perhaps one should consider the source.

Turns out Kristof’s deranged piece relies heavily on a recent report by Euro-Med Monitor, a Swiss-based advocacy organization. Euro-Med’s founder and chairman, Ramy Abdu, has publicly declared his support for Hamas.

Posting on social media, he called the monsters who raped and murdered Israelis “heroic knights who created for us pure glory,” promised to “remember their names well and teach the stories of their eternal heroism to . . . children and grandchildren.”

Did Kristof just ignore this?

It wouldn’t be the first time. Kristof was a champion of Cambodian anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam, who claimed to have survived being trafficked herself. He wrote numerous columns about her supposed plight and a book forward, plus worked on a documentary, before allegations emerged that Mam had fabricated key parts of her life story, leading to her resignation from her foundation.

But perhaps the truth of what Kristof writes or Alghorra photographs isn’t important to The New York Times, as long as it hurts Israel.