The Times’ Israel abuse claims: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Benjamin Netanyahu suing The New York Times for an alleged assault piece by Nicholas Kristof.
Nicholas Kristof’s column on the alleged sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees reads much less like reporting than the appliance of a new journalistic normal: Believe All Israel Haters (“Left’s turn on Israel complete,” Michael Goodwin, May 17).
He leaned on round sourcing, citing people embedded within the activist ecosystem of Hamas-governed Gaza whereas presenting overlapping NGOs, recycled testimony and mutually referential stories as in the event that they constituted unbiased corroboration.
The piece appeared simply earlier than the release of an Israeli report documenting sexual violence dedicated by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Clearly, the objective was to fabricate ethical equivalence between documented atrocities and allegations resting on contested sourcing.
Todd Pittinsky
Port Jefferson
While Kristof’s recounting could also be anecdotal, not one of The Post’s readers appeared to imagine there’s any risk it could possibly be true, regardless of many famous Israeli authors and historians, akin to Omer Bartov, repeatedly condemning the apartheid happening in Israel.
Somehow, that is all too reminiscent of how many Americans reacted to the atrocities of Lt. William Calley in Vietnam.
Just like Americans believed we have been above that sort of conduct, many imagine the IDF couldn’t probably interact in these atrocities.
Lou Maione
Manhattan
The New York Times has a historical past of championing monsters.
Its Berlin correspondent, Guido Enderis, wrote favorably about Hitler, and its reporter on Stalin and his henchmen, Walter Duranty, glossed over the Soviets’ murders and terrorizing of their residents.
Now, the Times has sunk to a new low by publishing Kristof’s article, which the Israeli authorities describes credibly as a “blood libel.”
With the unacceptable, ever-increasing ranges of antisemitism, the Times and Kristof should be sued.
Jack Weinberg
Manhattan
The Post’s objections to Kristof’s report of Israel’s abuse of Palestinians is shocking, given the graphic footage The Post itself has proven of absolutely the destruction of Gaza and the West Bank within the final two years.
There isn’t a lot space between this destruction and the Kristof report.
We need to object equally to the Hamas abuse of Israeli hostages as to any Israeli abuse of Palestinians.
Michael Scarlatos
Wurtsboro
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Jonathan Turley’s article is an wonderful legal opinion, written in order that laymen, like me, perceive the arguments (“Suit may dig into history of NYT ‘bias,’ ” May 18).
I hope all the reality and any legal responsibility is uncovered.
What is eminently clear is the bias of the bulk of the population within the USA and across the globe in opposition to Israel and the Jewish people.
For instance, the UN demanded cease-fires instantly after the Oct. 7 assault, as a substitute of denouncing Hamas. It accused Netanyahu of inciting genocide.
Evidence must be used for or in opposition to Israel solely when it’s applicable to take action.
Larry Sylvester
Acton, Ontario
Goodwin describes the left’s activate Israel as a course of over time.
This is reminiscent of the Thirties in Germany when more and more rights have been rescinded from the Jewish neighborhood, leading to Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass.”
Perhaps we are able to call the choice of the Times to print Kristof’s screed, “Kristofnacht,” the “Night of Broken Standards.”
Allen Schwartz
Manhattan
Only TDS victims imagine what the Times publishes.
Printing a entire column with their views is strictly what they need.
The Post gave more air to this ridiculous story, permitting it to dwell longer than it ought to have.
Maybe when Israel sues the paper, it’ll be for a sum the Times can’t pay and bankrupt it into oblivion.
James Schwartz
Summit, NJ
So now the Times writes fictional tales about Israel.
Mad Magazine and the National Enquirer are more plausible than The Gray Lady.
The humorous half is, many Jewish people nonetheless learn the pitiful publication.
Philip Vallone
Ossining
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