We are expected to believe whatever Hasbara propagandists say without the ability to fact-check their outrageous claims.
In a matter of hours after Nick Kristof’s article on the sexual abuse and rape of detainees in a Zionist torture prison appeared, NJ Dem Rep. Josh Gottheimer went on social media and threw in his two cents. He said the NYT is on the payroll of Hamas. It would also mean the newspaper is on the payroll of Netanyahu.
“WTF @nytimes!” Gottheimer posted on X. “Nick Kristof amplifies proven Hamas-affiliated sources and their propaganda, while the NYT continues to gloss over the systematic sexual violence, rape, and mutilation Hamas committed on October 7, now fully documented in the new Civil Commission report.”
Josh, who received $2,062,601 from the Israeli lobby, left something out. The chair of an Israeli investigative committee supposedly looking into the Al-Aqsa Food, Cochav Elkayam, is a “proven fraudster behind the new ‘Civil Commission’ report on Oct 7 sexual violence, which the entire US mainstream media is reporting without any critical detachment,” the journalist and filmmaker Max Blumenthal recently posted.
During a Harvard presentation, Cochav Elkayam-Levy falsely presented an old photo of female Kurdish fighters killed in combat as images of Israeli women at the Nova music fest… Israeli media has since exposed Elkayam-Levy as a grifter who deceived donors, lied about Hamas atrocities, and set up a fake “Civil Commission” which served as a corrupt fundraising mechanism for herself.
CNN aired an interview with Cochav Elkayam-Levy, “allowing her to launder unsubstantiated and extraordinarily serious claims about rape and sexual assault on October 7—while never acknowledging that the underlying archive remains inaccessible for public and journalistic scrutiny.” Because of the “sensitive nature of the materials,” any access “will be carefully reviewed by the Commission,” and only “limited and curated materials may be shared,” Drop Site posted.
In other words, we are expected to believe whatever Hasbara propagandists say without the ability to fact-check their outrageous claims. If we insist on that, we’re obviously antisemitic.
One day after New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a meticulously sourced investigation—drawing on 14 survivors, the UN, and several international rights groups—documenting systematic rape and sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners, the Times, along with other major media outlets, published largely uncritical coverage of a new report by the Civil Commission, an Israeli NGO claiming Hamas committed systematic sexual violence on October 7. The underlying archive behind the Israeli report—which was covered by a wide range of outlets including the AP, CNN, BBC, and NYT—is entirely sealed. Only AP disclosed that its findings “could not be independently verified.”
The Kristof article angered a “blood libel” crowd of several hundred gathered outside the newspaper’s office in New York. They waved Israeli flags and called for the NYT to fire Kristof. The mob managed to squeeze in a bit of Islamophobia. “We will not let New York City fall to Sharia supremacy.” A young Christian led an “Am Yisrael Chai” chant while others chorused “Bankrupt the Times!”
The criticism of Kristof and The New York Times was muted somewhat by Piers Morgan interview with Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a former Israeli soldier and whistleblower.
Ben-Ephraim described personal accounts from guards who witnessed dogs being used in a “sexually threatening way” against detainees, which was recently highlighted in a New York Times opinion piece by columnist Nicholas Kristof.
Netanyahu and Trump are a tag team. Trump filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the NYT for defamation. It was dismissed by a federal judge for being overly lengthy and improper. Trump refiled a small complaint. Now we have Netanyahu suing the newspaper.
It’s too bad for the NYT. In the past, it served as a faithful propaganda conduit for any number of government half-truths, lies, cover stories, and mendacities, including the lie Iraq had WMDs and Saddam Hussein was about to attack America.
“We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” said National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice a week after 9/11. There wasn’t a mushroom cloud. Instead, there was over a million dead Iraqis.
Article posted with permission from Kurt Nimmo
