{"id":9,"date":"2026-05-22T14:18:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:18:03","slug":"the-media-war-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"The Media War on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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T<\/span>he <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i>\u2019<\/span> coverage of Israel\u2019s wars has established a new precedent in journalistic integrity: publish stories as soon as possible, let them go viral, then discreetly apologize when the stories prove to be false.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Take, for example, the explosion at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Oct. 16, 2023. Palestinian authorities blamed the explosion on Israeli air strikes, and the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health reported 500 people dead. The following day, the <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i> posted<\/span> \u201cAt least 500 people were killed by an Israeli airstrike at a Gaza hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.\u201d Other outlets followed suit. \u201cHundreds feared dead or injured in Israeli air strike on hospital in Gaza, Palestinian officials say,\u201d reported the BBC.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a thorough investigation, the hospital explosion was <\/span>confirmed<\/span> to be caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired in a barrage intended for the civilian populations of southern Israel. But by the time the facts came out, the narrative had already been set.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But there\u2019s more. In July 2025, the <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i> published a photo of an emaciated toddler on its front page as proof of an Israeli-facilitated famine in Gaza. As it turned out, the boy suffered from a preexisting genetic disease unrelated to the war. The <\/span>Times<\/span><\/i> did issue a correction, but it was <\/span>published<\/span> on its public relations X account, seen by less than 100,000 viewers, and not on its website or main account, followed by over 55 million users. Over the past two years, I\u2019ve also <\/span>reported<\/span> on how widely circulating claims of genocide and famine in Gaza have been fabricated by biased NGOs, politicians, and media outlets as part of a campaign to slander Israel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

News, therefore, is not being reported; it\u2019s being shaped and fabricated through biased narratives, and the consequences are dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most recent jab at Israel is Nicholas Kristof\u2019s opinion piece published in the <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i> on May 13. Kristof unveiled alleged horrific sexual abuses committed against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. This followed a similar <\/span>report<\/span> from Faisal Ali at <\/span>the<\/span> Guardian<\/span><\/i> a year earlier on alleged sexual abuses of Palestinian detainees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristof\u2019s piece was hard to read, filled with emotionally driven accounts from sexual abuse victims. It claimed that there is a pattern of widespread sexual violence against detained Palestinians by the Israeli military, intelligence agencies, Jewish settlers in the West Bank, prison guards, and specially trained rape dogs. But even in the most cringeworthy moments, I recalled reading uncomfortable pieces from the <\/span>Times<\/span><\/i> before, only to find out days or weeks later that the content had been recalled or debunked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristof\u2019s primary case was the 2024 alleged sexual abuse scandal of Gazan prisoners at the Sde Teiman prison. When this story first broke, it resulted in the arrest of the five Israeli perpetrators, who were army reserve soldiers. Their charges were dropped earlier this year because, among several reasons, the alleged victim was released back to Gaza in the October 2025 ceasefire and could not testify on the matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe allegations raised are false and entirely unfounded,\u201d the Israel Prison Service (IPS) responded to Kristof\u2019s allegations. \u201cThe Israel Prison Service is a security organization that operates in accordance with the law and under the strict oversight of numerous official inspectors,\u201d the IPS <\/span>told<\/span> the <\/span>Times of Israel<\/span><\/i>. \u201cAll prisoners are held in accordance with the law, while safeguarding their basic rights and under the supervision of a professional and skilled prison staff.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, who was quoted in Kristof\u2019s piece, has since accused Kristof of misrepresenting him and portraying him as validating the allegations. The Israeli Foreign Ministry called the opinion article an \u201cunfathomable inversion of reality\u201d for turning the victims into the accused, noting Hamas\u2019s sexual crimes against Israelis on October 7 and against the hostages in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristof, as it turns out, was not working alone, and the marionette strings attached to his shoulders began to emerge when considering that his primary source of information for this piece came from the NGO Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (EMHRM).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The organization\u2019s chairman, Ramy Abdu, has been on a mission to slander Israel and dismiss the sexual crimes that Hamas committed against Israelis in 2023. It was strategic that Kristof\u2019s piece was published the same day that the Israeli NGO Civil Commission published its 300-page <\/span>report<\/span> detailing 13 different types of sexual violence committed by Hamas on Oct. 7 and against hostages in captivity. <\/span>Adbu <\/span>responded<\/span> to the Civil Commission report: \u201cIf you want an example of a shallow and worthless report \u2014 this is<\/span> it. Not a single solid piece of information or credible testimony to build on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Abdu, and EHMRM\u2019s former chairman, Mazan Kahel, have been targeted by Israel as among Hamas\u2019s \u201cmain operatives and institutions\u201d in Europe. In response to Kristof\u2019s opinion piece, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter posted a group <\/span>photo<\/span> of Abdu and Kahel standing next to former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed by Israel last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristof\u2019s reporting grows more questionable when considering his vagueness and the inconsistencies of what he frames as facts. First, the most gruesome accounts of sexual violence came from 12 unnamed sources, which he claims he found \u201cby asking around among [Palestinian] lawyers, human rights groups, aid workers, and ordinary Palestinians themselves.\u201d The need for anonymity is understandable, even respectable, considering the taboo, trauma, and shame that come with such violations. But this puts the reader in the uncomfortable position of trusting Palestinian organizations whose very existence is to wipe Israel off the map, and, as Oct. 7 has shown, will accomplish this at all costs \u2014 even lying to a journalist. Of the personal accounts whom Kristof did mention by name \u2014 journalist Sami al-Sai and activist Issa Amro \u2014 the media watchdog HonestReporting has<\/span> noted<\/span> that its stories of alleged sexual abuse have changed over time, \u201cwith dramatic new details added years later.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to give Kristof the benefit of the doubt; he is on to something. Prisons are nasty places, guards and inmates are tough and ruthless, and sexual violence against both is a problem in every country. On top of that, the fact that an influx of inmates with direct ties to Hamas has flooded Israeli prisons in the wake of Oct. 7 presents a difficult situation. Undoubtedly, there is a tinge of revenge in the air. Nonetheless, if there are violations of human rights and acts of sexual violence, this is an issue the government in Jerusalem must confront.<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is, we are being fed these allegations from a source that has repeatedly told us lies in the past. If the <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i> wants to be a voice for the Palestinian people or for victims of sexual violence, it has already done them a grave injustice through its untrustworthy reputation. Any facts that are unveiled, unfortunately, are drowned in a sea of objective opinions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If corrections are later published on Kristof\u2019s latest piece, chances are most readers won\u2019t see it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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