DePaul University Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies - JLJS

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05/21/2026
05/14/2026

The notoriously credulous New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof may finally be facing his Waterloo after he published a 3,500-word column on Monday making lurid and bizarre allegations of “widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children.”

Experts and analysts began picking apart the expose within moments of its publication. They say that Kristof’s new opus—which accuses the Israelis of violating Palestinian detainees with carrots and having somehow trained a dog to r**e men—makes little effort to verify claims that rely heavily on a Hamas-tied advocacy group and a former Palestinian prisoner who has publicly celebrated terrorism against Israel and shifted his story multiple times.

The group, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, has long made discredited claims that Israel “trains dogs to r**e prisoners,” and its founder, Ramy Abdu, has documented ties to Hamas leaders. The prisoner, Sami al-Sai, has tweeted praise for jihadi militant groups and celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror spree. Kristof’s piece includes none of that information, but who has time for context?

It’s par for the course for Kristof, who “has a history of embracing dubious narratives from his perch at the Times's opinion pages,” our Adam Kredo writes. Kristof “famously penned a lengthy mea culpa in 2014 after his articles about a Cambodian activist who was trafficked in brothels as a child turned out to be fictitious.”

“Through thick and thin, as many other columnists cycled in and out of the Times—even after an abortive attempt to run for governor of Oregon while living primarily in New York City—Kristof has persisted.”

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