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The commission on Hamas sexual violence against Israelis “has examined over 10,000 photographs and videos of the attack totalling more than 1,800 hours of visual analysis.”
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 12, 2026
Conversely, someone told Nick Kristof that Zionist dogs are trained to rape Arabs, so he wrote that. https://t.co/d2sVSwz7cZ
Ed: In fairness, a couple of people told that to Kristof. They were Hamas terrorists, of course, so the NYT and the rest of the Jew-hating Left rushed to embrace them, even though there is no evidence at all that dogs can be trained to sexually assault humans. Nor did the NYT bother to check that fact before publishing this horrific dreck. However, as the independent commission reported today, there is plenty of evidence of Hamas atrocities. I shared some of that earlier today, but let's take another look tonight ...
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Silenced No More report: Witnesses’ accounts and testimonies of sexual violence emerged swiftly after the attack.11 From the earliest days, reports from survivors, first responders, medical experts, and morgue staff indicated that the attacks had a marked gendered dimension. For many victims, these crimes ended in death. In numerous cases, victims were killed during or after the assaults, and their bodies were recovered mutilated, burned, and desecrated, in ways consistent with patterns of sexualized violence of exceptional cruelty. This did not end with the assault itself: during abduction, transfer, and captivity, women, men, and children were subjected to sexual violence, sexualized torture, humiliation, coercion, and ongoing suffering. For them, October 7th marked the beginning of prolonged captivity, physical torture, and profound psychological trauma. For survivors, returned hostages, and families, the consequences of the attack remain ongoing, and continue to shape the physical, psychological, and social fabric of affected communities.12
Two pregnant women were among the first victims of the attack. 28-year-old Nitzan Rahum, murdered during the attack, was in the early stages of pregnancy, and 23-year-old S. AbuRashed, a member of the Bedouin community, went into labor early in the morning hours of October 7th.13 As her husband and his brother rushed her to the hospital, perpetrators ambushed them and opened fire on their vehicle, striking both the mother and her unborn child. Although the mother was stabilized at the hospital, the baby survived only 14 hours before dying of her injuries.14
Hamas and its collaborators circulated numerous visuals, including sexualized content and documentation of gender-based crimes. The attack included the public display and desecration of female bodies, as well as the torture and abduction of women and girls— including elderly women, mothers with children, and, in some cases, entire families—who were filmed as they were forcibly taken into Gaza, with the footage broadcast through public channels.15 Perpetrators filmed themselves through social media and media platforms, including through the use of victims’ own accounts and personal devices, thereby extending the humiliation and amplifying the psychological terror inflicted on victims, their families, and the wider public. Many family members learned of the fate of their loved ones through content circulated by perpetrators via victims’ own personal devices and family-linked accounts.16 Other perpetrators wore GoPros and body-worn cameras, or otherwise ensured that their actions were documented and disseminated by others.17 Across all sites, these videos documented armed groups and Palestinian civilians celebrating the attacks, appearing joyful and euphoric as they recorded and disseminated the crimes.
Ed: Kristof and the New York Times would rather carry water for these despicable terrorists than tell the truth about the nature of their rule in Gaza and their wars on Israel. The link is to the full report.
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Nick Kristof doesn't think Palestinians lie to him because he thinks he is above them and is incapable of being duped by a poor. It's a common theme in Western parroting of third world lies.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) May 12, 2026
Ed. Maybe. I don't necessarily buy that Kristof was an unknowing dupe. I suspect that there was more intent here to deceive and distract from the report on Hamas atrocities.
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David Harsanyi at the WashEx: Like many leftists living in social media bubbles, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof is obsessed with Israel. And because he has a risible understanding of the Middle East, he’s also highly susceptible to believing unhinged conspiracies aimed at the country.
This week, however, in a pseudo-journalistic piece headlined “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” the columnist excavates conspiracies so unhinged that no marginally reputable media outlet has ever touched them. Even the New York Times relegates it to its op-ed section, since the piece breaks every rule of objective journalism. But even columnists have an obligation to abide by the basic standards of evidence. Kristof does not. ...
Sami Sai, an introspective “freelance journalist” according to Kristof, is actually a Palestinian activist who publicly celebrated on Oct 7. Sai, who has been arrested numerous times for violent incitement, has an evolving story about allegedly being raped.
Another “source” is longtime Palestinian activist and media favorite Issa Amro, who also has an ever-changing story about his time in an Israeli prison. In a 2024 Washington Post piece, for example, Amro very specifically claimed that he was threatened with sexual assault while in Israeli detention. In Kristof’s column, he has morphed into a victim of rape.
Ed: In other words, the sourcing and reporting on this are so bad that the Pulitzers might have to give Kristof another one to deflect criticism. Call it the Walter Duranty clause.
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Months ago, the Civil Commission approached the New York Times with a report on Hamas’ systematic sexual violence on Oct. 7 and after. The @nytimes said it was not interested.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) May 12, 2026
This comprehensive and well-documented report was published this morning by CNN and other…
This comprehensive and well-documented report was published this morning by CNN and other international outlets.
Aware of the report and its release date, the night before its release the NYT ran a shameful attack on Israel, belittling Hamas’ sexual crimes.
That tells you everything about the NYT's agenda.
Ed: Kudos to CNN for making this report the focus. As I noted in my post earlier, the NYT knew damned well what the report would find, because they had published a lengthy report about the sexual torture inflicted by Hamas over two years ago. The commission cited that report nearly three dozen times to cross-reference the evidence at hand and its own findings.
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Scott Johnson at Power Line: Nicholas Kristof writes a column for the opinion page of the New York Times. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Kristof has just unveiled a new libel against Israel in “The silence that meets the rape of Palestinians.”
You have to read it to disbelieve it. Among other things, Kristof cites “Palestinian prisoners and human rights monitors” who report “police dogs being coached to rape prisoners.”
The Times has made itself a continued source of Hamas propaganda. It just won a Pulitzer Prize for its work in this vein.
Hamas has now listed fatalities suffered in the post 10/7 conflict with Israel. Several of the names included are those of Palestinian “journalists.” In life they disseminated Hamas propaganda. In death they were used to promote the line that Israel targets “journalists.” Say what you will, at least Hamas had to pay them for their “work.” Kristof does this sort of thing at the expense of the Times.
Ed: In talk-radio parlance, the NYT has really committed to the bit – the bit being, of course, the promotion of radical Islamist terrorism. Does anyone wonder how the New York City populace got groomed into electing an Islamist-cheering mayor less than 25 years after 9/11?
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The reason the antisemitic @NickKristof column got through the NYT publishing process is because the NYT is filled with antisemites.
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) May 12, 2026
Their coverage of everything involving Israel, which for them is everything because Jew-hatred is pathological, is done by the same people. https://t.co/EC41tciUfJ
Ed: Exactly. This isn't just about Kristof. This is the same newspaper where the decision to run an op-ed by US Senator Tom Cotton arguing for the use of the Insurrection Act to deal with riots exploding across the country cost an editor his job. The staff claimed that op-ed made them feel "unsafe." Where's the same outrage over this blood libel at the moment when Hamas activists are committing pogroms in the streets of New York against children attending Jewish schools?
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Haviv Rettig Gur on X/Twitter: No one checks, no costs are exacted for the never-ending barrage of fakery. Because why would they?
A wild religious frenzy has taken hold. Hatred of Israel is now definitional to the left, and to parts of the right. Greta Thunberg has forgotten all about climate change. An enemy of humanity has been identified just in time to unleash all the pent-up religious rage that this troubled secular age won't allow against anyone else.
And by complete and utter coincidence, that enemy you're suddenly allowed to hate is vaguely associated with the Jews. ...
And Kristof has joined the new religion. Not by being concerned about abuse, but by not caring one whit whether he's trafficking in truths or lies. Only the Jews will ask to distinguish between the two. He just needs to throw it all on the page, and his membership in the glorious crusade is assured.
Ed: Read it all. Gur's essay should get picked up elsewhere, perhaps in the Free Press; it's required reading in this moment in which the Democrat Party has utterly embraced Jew-hatred.
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https://t.co/860eTKMugW pic.twitter.com/xsqFyP3ptS
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) May 12, 2026
Ed: I wonder what the expiration date will be on this.
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Times of Israel: The Civil Commission was founded to document the sexual violence committed by Hamas and other armed groups on October 7 and against hostages. Elkayam-Levy headed the study, which was researched and written together with a team of lawyers and other contributors.
Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler served as a principal contributor, and the report was endorsed by former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu, former chief prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone Prof. David Crane, and former Israeli Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, among numerous other prominent international law experts.
For its study, the Civil Commission said it reviewed more than 10,000 photographs and video segments; collected, transcribed, translated, and cross-referenced survivor and witness accounts; conducted visits to the sites of the October 7 atrocities; and met with families and affected communities.
In total, the commission relied on over 430 formal and informal interviews, testimonies, and meetings with survivors, witnesses, returned hostages, experts, and family members in compiling its report.
Ed: Hey, but Kristof talked to a couple of Hamas terrorists and shills! I wanted to include this as context for my earlier post, but it works just as well here.
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The Bulwark is now reporting there is a 1 in 3 chance that Graham Platner will choose Nick Kristof as his running mate in 2028.
— Thank you (@brianberkey) May 12, 2026
Ed: Yeah, I laughed. Sue me. At least Kristof would be eligible to run in that election. The reporter that the NYT praised for his reportorial and research skills didn't bother to check his eligibility before launching a gubernatorial bid in Oregon four years ago. Remember?
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Eli Lake at The Free Press: Another problem with the report is that Kristof cites the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which amplified the dog rape claims in April. The Switzerland-based organization purports to be a neutral human rights group, but it has a history of spreading libel against Israel, such as a November 2023 report that raised “concerns” that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was harvesting the organs of Palestinian corpses.
In 2013, Israel designated Euro-Med’s founder and current chairman Ramy Abdu as a Hamas operative in Europe. On the day after the October 7 massacre, Abdu posted on X: “In this battle, Palestine offered the elite of its youth and men on the path of freedom and dignity. Succeeding generations will remember you, and history will immortalize you as knightly heroes who forged for us a pure glory untainted by the mud. Preserve their names well, and teach the tales of their immortal valor to your children and grandchildren.”
Then there is Kristof’s reliance on the anonymous journalist for his claim of dog rape. One might expect a journalist who suffered such a gruesome experience to publish an account under his own byline. Kristof claims that many of his sources were anonymous because of the shame associated with sexual violence in the Arab world. ...
Israel faces an enemy that filmed its atrocities on October 7 and celebrated the barbarism as an act of resistance. Now that same enemy is trying to persuade the world that Israel is no different than Hamas. Woe to any journalist credulous enough to believe them.
Ed: Every nation that maintains military detention and civil penal facilities deals with credible allegations of abuse. We had Abu Ghraib, for instance, and a handful of other incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both Lake and Gur note that Israel is no different. There is a vast difference between isolated incidents of criminal behavior by people in uniform and the massive, coordinated strategy of sexual violence and torture employed by Hamas.
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When we released the new version of "Superman for Alon and the Hostages" we all prayed that one day Alon would sit at a piano with me and together we'd perform Superman.
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) May 12, 2026
For all of you who fought for the hostages and their families. This video of that miracle is for you. 🇺🇸🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/STgWBFwuzb
Ed: I'm not crying. It's just dusty in here. There is no better way to finish the Final Word, and I thank John for sharing this with the world. Miracles do come true.
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