Did the NYT Pour Gasoline on NYC’s Antisemitism Problem?

Anyone to the political right of Leon Trotsky has good reason to distrust the legacy media. The old media is quick to claim impartiality while parading their bias, which is in large part why so many legacy media outlets are seeing their numbers slump, and in polls, their approval ratings are coming in at about the level of cockroaches and black mold.

Case in point: New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has released a column that makes some, to put it mildly, questionable claims about the Israeli Defense Forces and their treatment of Hamas prisoners — and he appears to rely on pro-Hamas sources for his claims.

Quelle surprise.

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give…
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) May 11, 2026

I won't reproduce the rest of Kristof's post because of the graphic descriptions he includes.

Now, here's the problem: The sources for Kristof's story are, to put it mildly, questionable. One of them apparently has strong ties to Hamas.

So the @nytimes runs a story supporting Hamas lies. Even suggesting the IDF trains dogs to rape people.

The first person the article story relies on is Sami al-Sai.

I found his FB account. Here he is celebrating the Hamas attacks on October 7.

The NYT spreads Hamas lies. pic.twitter.com/PfeUtqQ80k
— David Collier (@mishtal) May 11, 2026

And:

This is his wife. Openly praising Hamas with Abu Obeida being idealized as a heroic Islamic warrior.

This is the pro-Hamas belief of those @NickKristof spoke to - and then he thinks it is "far-fetched" to suggest they may have lied.

Why are western journos so stupid? pic.twitter.com/MK0OENqdeN
— David Collier (@mishtal) May 11, 2026

That casts a big, dark shadow over Kristof's "reporting."

The Times of Israel responded on Tuesday, citing Israeli authorities calling Kristof's column "blood libel."

Israeli authorities on Monday denounced as a “blood libel” a New York Times opinion story alleging widespread rape of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, noting that it relied on sources that have alleged ties to the Hamas terror group or have praised it.
“Today, The New York Times chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, referring to the column.
“In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused,” it said, noting the Hamas terror group’s sexual crimes against Israelis on October 7, 2023, and against hostages abducted during that attack throughout their subsequent captivity.

And it's almost certainly no coincidence that on Monday, not long after the column's publication, an antisemitic mob turned up in Brooklyn, parading through Jewish neighborhoods waving "Palestinian" flags.

Hamasniks are marching through the streets of Brooklyn attempting to intimidate Jewish families

This was never about Israel. It was always about targeting Jewspic.twitter.com/dAmEGB6xOL
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) May 12, 2026

OK, that's a lot to absorb.

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Here's the upshot of all this: If Nicholas Kristof had set out to repeat Hamas propaganda without questioning its veracity, it is hard to see what he would have done differently. Within hours of his column's publication, his sources were being dissected; his sources have since been weighed and found wanting. And he may well have provoked a mob in the doing.

As for Hamas, they lie. It's what they do. It's what they have always done. Their members lie. Their supporters lie. It's an accepted tactic; it's called taqiyyah. It's a major problem in dealing with these people, just as it is in dealing with nations like Iran; you can never go too far wrong in assuming that Hamas members and their supporters are lying to you.

Nicholas Kristof, apparently, doesn't understand that.

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