A New York Times columnist who specializes in maudlin first-person grief porn outdid himself last week.
He published an article alleging that Israeli officials have trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners.
Crucially, the Times’ Nicholas Kristof, who has a long history of playing the dupe, offered nothing to substantiate the shocking allegations beyond the word of Palestinian activists and wartime propagandists.
Equally important, the Times’ news side has yet to cover or confirm Kristof’s story. Whatever standards may apply on the paper’s opinion desk, its newsroom has yet to see anything convincing enough to repeat the charges formally.
A more charitable soul might give Kristof and the Times the benefit of the doubt. We are neither so charitable nor is the Times, or Western media writ large, deserving of any such courtesy.
Especially not when it comes to the war between Israel and Hamas.
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