Gee, I thought Nick Kristof was quite a strong pro-Zionist. But the atrocities are now so numerous and blatant that even he cannot remain silent. You are right, it is about the numbers. Nick has a big readership. Eat ya heart out, Bibi Mileikowsky and your fellow genociders!
One of the redeeming values of my paid subscription to the NYT, besides keeping my Wordle stats, is reading the comments to Kristof's article. I couldn't read them all, but everyone I did read expressed their anger and disgust by Israel's actions.
From Australia: I met Nick ca 2010, when I attended a conference at Georgetown University to give a lecture on the micronutrient selenium. I bought a copy of his book (co-authored with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, "Half the Sky. Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide") and he signed it.
1) “Israel is now saying it will sue The New York Times as Zionists continue their days-long freakout over the outlet’s reporting on the systemic rape of Palestinian captives in Israeli prisons.”
Think they’ll have any problem finding a good Jewish lawyer? The not-so joke was, before Oct. 7th, whenever talks were arranged to sign a treaty – of course, eventually always to be abrogated by Israel – between Israel and Hamas, Hamas might show up with six representatives to negotiate; Israel with 200 lawyers.
2) “Israel apologists aren’t shrieking about the New York Times report because they believe Israel was lied about, they’re shrieking because they’d assumed it’s the Times’ job to administer propaganda for Israel. It’s not about ‘blood libel’”, it’s about narrative control… This shows that their real objection isn’t so much about the actual contents of the article as it is about the information influencing a larger number of people than the earlier reports did. It’s not about the facts, it’s about the numbers. It’s about making sure the largest possible number of westerners think nice thoughts about the state of Israel.”
I have discerned the following pattern in responses whenever Israel or its apologists is confronted with inconvenient truths: denunciation, denial, distortion, deflection, dismissiveness, disparagement, dissembling, disassembly, distress, disgust, defamation, departure. To be repeated situationally per instructions and training.
3) That Israelis exist only at a primordial behavioral and physiologic level obsessed with killing and sex can be seen not only in the documented depravities practiced on Palestinian captives, but in the tale of Rami Davidian, the lauded Israeli farmer who saved hundreds at the Nova music festival, described lurid sexual atrocities for the media, went on an international hasbara tour from which he undoubtedly profited with many shekels, granted a number of honors, and culminating in his being exposed as a fraud – why is this not new news among Israelis and their apologists? – and even the fraud gets banned from airing, see “Israeli network censors report exposing Oct 7 ‘hero’ as hoaxer” https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/08/oct-7-hoax-expose-shelved/.
4) No doubt they’ll make an issue of their murderous militarized robots, experimenting on Lebanese civilians, for being unfairly slurred.
There are two recent books out about the pro-Israel propaganda machine that poses as the U.S. media. The first, published in April, is “How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza,” by media critic Adam H. Johnson, with contributions by Professor Noura Erakat. According to reviews, the book provides a detailed, statistical breakdown of Israel-Gaza coverage by allegedly “center-left” U.S. media outlets, including, the NYT, the Washington Post, CNN, Politico, Axios, USA Today, the AP, and MSNBC (currently MS NOW), over a long period. These publications purportedly influenced the Biden Administration’s unapologetic support for the genocide. You can still purchase the book in paperback at a 40% discount through Plutobooks.com.
The second book, which is due out on June 9, is “The Complicit Lens: U.S. Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza,” by Robin Anderson. You can view a panel discussion of the book at Columbia School of Journalism at:
No matter who Israel threatens and no matter how much effort is put into denial, eventually the truth is reaching a wider audience. The dam is ready to break.
Bibi: "under your leadership" Israel has been exposed as a steaming pile of shit and your soldiers are "the worst of the worst." Anyone who has paid attention knows this.
Oh you hear that? He's going to consider the harshest legal action against the NYT. The HARSHEST.
And what, pray tell, could that be, Bibi? I'm sure the NYT was VERY careful to make sure all their sources were up to snuff, all their I's were dotted and their T's crossed because if there's one thing you can say about the New York Times, it's that they don't make these kinds of reports lightly. So good luck with that, Bibi. I'm sure discovery will be very interesting.
It wouldn't be the first time that Netanyahu has stated he will sue, using the same words - 'blood libel' Then he withdrew. It will be the same with the New York Times who no doubt had the report passed for publication by their lawyers, some of the best in the legal world. . Net. is only 'threatening' to sue.
"They framed themselves as victims to justify victimizing others."
It's time to lock up these "victims" of the Zionist-rapist apartheid regime. The decent world can't take much more of their sick and twisted lies and hasbara nonsense.
Modern 'Blood Libel', ,, using our understanding of the english language that we all use ,,,, then modern 'Blood Libel' would be the deliberate telling of lies and slandering a person or group of people with the intention to slaughter them ..... No one does more of this than Israel / zionists ...
ie - Beheaded Babies ,,, mass systemic rapes committed on Oct 7th ,,, etc . These are examples of modern 'blood libel' .... Zionists are the worst offenders as they systemically rape the truth in order to murder and maim the victims of THEIR atrocity propaganda / blood libel.
Israel is upset and feels betrayed because the truth is being told. What a twisted regime.
"It’s about making sure the largest possible number of westerners think nice thoughts about the state of Israel." Israel spends its time and money on two things: 1.Violence--killing, torturing, raping, starving, and destroying; 2.Propagandizing.
Such are the Zionist colony's purposes. They have no values or morals.
The individual propagandists and organizations like the ADL, NYT and other media mentioned in this article are all admitting that they are guilty of war crimes. Covering up genocide (last year the UN officially declared Palestinian a Genocide… which every single human rights organization already certified) is complacency and a crime which has no statute of limitations. Documenting this is key… the Nazis thought they could get away with genocide and so do the Zionists. Daily they document their crimes… and all those with eyes can see.
Israel is the live horror movie more depraved than the worst horror movie!
What torture has Israel not inflicted in Palestinians including children?
Come to think of it, I can't name one.
Israeli tools of trade: Starvation, deny medical treatment, bleeding to death and murdering wave after wave of health workers, then go into the prison system......organ theft.......
Israel has lost the narrative war, and you were a part of that, Caitlin. You and I and thousands of others used the technology which was available, just like Martin Luther did once upon a time, and the Israelis, accustomed to the old media model, were unable to either adapt to it or to suppress it.
Now, powerful factions of the US Empire's oligarchy see that Israel can no longer be unconditionally supported without wrecking THEIR interests, and that's why we're seeing the NYT and The Atlantic turn on Israel.
Israel delenda est. It is the only logical solution, and it is rapidly becoming inevitable.
Gee, I thought Nick Kristof was quite a strong pro-Zionist. But the atrocities are now so numerous and blatant that even he cannot remain silent. You are right, it is about the numbers. Nick has a big readership. Eat ya heart out, Bibi Mileikowsky and your fellow genociders!
Kristof and the people who own the NYT are all Jewish. Apparently they’ve had enough.
About bloody time!
I am reasonably sure that Kristof is not Jewish.
I believe NYT is worried about being summoned to The Hague at some point in the future.
Good point.
a great point, i don't think they have all of a sudden had a crisis of conscience or change of heart
Same. They're attempting to "cover their tracks."
wouldn't surprise me at all
One of the redeeming values of my paid subscription to the NYT, besides keeping my Wordle stats, is reading the comments to Kristof's article. I couldn't read them all, but everyone I did read expressed their anger and disgust by Israel's actions.
From Australia: I met Nick ca 2010, when I attended a conference at Georgetown University to give a lecture on the micronutrient selenium. I bought a copy of his book (co-authored with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, "Half the Sky. Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide") and he signed it.
Yay, and the NYT is Jewish-owned, as noted above.
Israel uses “ Deny Deny Deny “ policy for all the atrocities that it commits
Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender: DARVO.
Textbook abuser tactic.
1) “Israel is now saying it will sue The New York Times as Zionists continue their days-long freakout over the outlet’s reporting on the systemic rape of Palestinian captives in Israeli prisons.”
Think they’ll have any problem finding a good Jewish lawyer? The not-so joke was, before Oct. 7th, whenever talks were arranged to sign a treaty – of course, eventually always to be abrogated by Israel – between Israel and Hamas, Hamas might show up with six representatives to negotiate; Israel with 200 lawyers.
2) “Israel apologists aren’t shrieking about the New York Times report because they believe Israel was lied about, they’re shrieking because they’d assumed it’s the Times’ job to administer propaganda for Israel. It’s not about ‘blood libel’”, it’s about narrative control… This shows that their real objection isn’t so much about the actual contents of the article as it is about the information influencing a larger number of people than the earlier reports did. It’s not about the facts, it’s about the numbers. It’s about making sure the largest possible number of westerners think nice thoughts about the state of Israel.”
I have discerned the following pattern in responses whenever Israel or its apologists is confronted with inconvenient truths: denunciation, denial, distortion, deflection, dismissiveness, disparagement, dissembling, disassembly, distress, disgust, defamation, departure. To be repeated situationally per instructions and training.
3) That Israelis exist only at a primordial behavioral and physiologic level obsessed with killing and sex can be seen not only in the documented depravities practiced on Palestinian captives, but in the tale of Rami Davidian, the lauded Israeli farmer who saved hundreds at the Nova music festival, described lurid sexual atrocities for the media, went on an international hasbara tour from which he undoubtedly profited with many shekels, granted a number of honors, and culminating in his being exposed as a fraud – why is this not new news among Israelis and their apologists? – and even the fraud gets banned from airing, see “Israeli network censors report exposing Oct 7 ‘hero’ as hoaxer” https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/08/oct-7-hoax-expose-shelved/.
4) No doubt they’ll make an issue of their murderous militarized robots, experimenting on Lebanese civilians, for being unfairly slurred.
The Koran authorizes sex with infidel captive of the right arm.
And 'Blood Libel'
There are two recent books out about the pro-Israel propaganda machine that poses as the U.S. media. The first, published in April, is “How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza,” by media critic Adam H. Johnson, with contributions by Professor Noura Erakat. According to reviews, the book provides a detailed, statistical breakdown of Israel-Gaza coverage by allegedly “center-left” U.S. media outlets, including, the NYT, the Washington Post, CNN, Politico, Axios, USA Today, the AP, and MSNBC (currently MS NOW), over a long period. These publications purportedly influenced the Biden Administration’s unapologetic support for the genocide. You can still purchase the book in paperback at a 40% discount through Plutobooks.com.
The second book, which is due out on June 9, is “The Complicit Lens: U.S. Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza,” by Robin Anderson. You can view a panel discussion of the book at Columbia School of Journalism at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJDQnkPaH2Q
Hasbara is falling down
Falling down, falling down ... 🎵
No matter who Israel threatens and no matter how much effort is put into denial, eventually the truth is reaching a wider audience. The dam is ready to break.
Bibi: "under your leadership" Israel has been exposed as a steaming pile of shit and your soldiers are "the worst of the worst." Anyone who has paid attention knows this.
1000%. Every word. Isrehell fascists lie about everything. Sniveling gloating Nazi fucks
Thank you Caitlin! And one should always remember the difference in health between released Hamas "hostages" and isra3li prisoners.
Oh you hear that? He's going to consider the harshest legal action against the NYT. The HARSHEST.
And what, pray tell, could that be, Bibi? I'm sure the NYT was VERY careful to make sure all their sources were up to snuff, all their I's were dotted and their T's crossed because if there's one thing you can say about the New York Times, it's that they don't make these kinds of reports lightly. So good luck with that, Bibi. I'm sure discovery will be very interesting.
Do NYT writers carry pagers? Asking for a friend...
I imagine it is purely harassment. Or maybe they'll threaten the judge with assassination.
It wouldn't be the first time that Netanyahu has stated he will sue, using the same words - 'blood libel' Then he withdrew. It will be the same with the New York Times who no doubt had the report passed for publication by their lawyers, some of the best in the legal world. . Net. is only 'threatening' to sue.
"They framed themselves as victims to justify victimizing others."
It's time to lock up these "victims" of the Zionist-rapist apartheid regime. The decent world can't take much more of their sick and twisted lies and hasbara nonsense.
Matthew How wrote a great Substack post on the history of Israelis sexually assaulting their captives. The NYT could learn a thing or two: Rape and Torture in Palestine https://matthewhoh.substack.com/p/rape-and-torture-in-palestine
Israeli soldiers have done these things to passengers from the flotilla boats that aimed to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Caitlin wrote about what they did to Greta Thunberg:
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/israel-tortured-and-sexually-humiliated?utm_source=direct&r=2vzf0g&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
German journalist Anna Liedtke was taken prisoner and raped by Israeli women guards:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSh7LnZjHuY/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
Modern 'Blood Libel', ,, using our understanding of the english language that we all use ,,,, then modern 'Blood Libel' would be the deliberate telling of lies and slandering a person or group of people with the intention to slaughter them ..... No one does more of this than Israel / zionists ...
ie - Beheaded Babies ,,, mass systemic rapes committed on Oct 7th ,,, etc . These are examples of modern 'blood libel' .... Zionists are the worst offenders as they systemically rape the truth in order to murder and maim the victims of THEIR atrocity propaganda / blood libel.
Israel is upset and feels betrayed because the truth is being told. What a twisted regime.
"It’s about making sure the largest possible number of westerners think nice thoughts about the state of Israel." Israel spends its time and money on two things: 1.Violence--killing, torturing, raping, starving, and destroying; 2.Propagandizing.
Such are the Zionist colony's purposes. They have no values or morals.
The individual propagandists and organizations like the ADL, NYT and other media mentioned in this article are all admitting that they are guilty of war crimes. Covering up genocide (last year the UN officially declared Palestinian a Genocide… which every single human rights organization already certified) is complacency and a crime which has no statute of limitations. Documenting this is key… the Nazis thought they could get away with genocide and so do the Zionists. Daily they document their crimes… and all those with eyes can see.
https://www.icj.org/resource/icj-releases-legal-q-a-on-crime-of-genocide/
https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
Israel is the live horror movie more depraved than the worst horror movie!
What torture has Israel not inflicted in Palestinians including children?
Come to think of it, I can't name one.
Israeli tools of trade: Starvation, deny medical treatment, bleeding to death and murdering wave after wave of health workers, then go into the prison system......organ theft.......
Let's edit that Netanyahu tweet to read "Under my leadership, Isra3l will cease to exist."
Israel has lost the narrative war, and you were a part of that, Caitlin. You and I and thousands of others used the technology which was available, just like Martin Luther did once upon a time, and the Israelis, accustomed to the old media model, were unable to either adapt to it or to suppress it.
Now, powerful factions of the US Empire's oligarchy see that Israel can no longer be unconditionally supported without wrecking THEIR interests, and that's why we're seeing the NYT and The Atlantic turn on Israel.
Israel delenda est. It is the only logical solution, and it is rapidly becoming inevitable.