Blood Libel Revealing the Depth of Jew-Hatred By Legacy Media

Reuters

"Today I instructed my legal advisers to consider the harshest legal action against The New York Times and Nicholas Kristof."

"They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers."

"We will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law. Truth will prevail." 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 

"The Israeli Prime Minister has threatened to file a libel lawsuit against The New York Times regarding Nicholas Kristof's deeply reported opinion column on sexual abuse by Israel's prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators."

"This threat, similar to one made last year, is part of a well-worn political playbook that aims to undermine independent reporting and stifle journalism that does not fit a specific narrative. Any such legal claim would be without merit."

New York Times statement  

screenshot of May 2026 New York Times column

"[There was] a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children [carried out by soldiers, settlers, interrogators and prison guards]."

"There is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes. But in recent years they have built a security apparatus where sexual violence has become, as a United Nations report put it last year, one of Israel's 'standard operating procedures' and 'a major element in the ill treatment of Palestinians'."

"[This report was] based on conversations with 14 men and women who said they had been sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers or members of the security forces."

Nicholas Kristof, The Silence that Meets the Rape of Palestinians  

"Crucially, the New York Times would face a far more stringent burden of proof in Israel [if the case came to court in Israel] than under the US standard, as a mere lack of malice is insufficient to avoid liability." 

"To prevail, the newspaper must prove the absolute truth of its reporting or demonstrate strict adherence to standards of responsible journalism."

Lawyer Idan Seger   

A libel lawsuit has been launched against The New York Times consequential to "one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel", in the words of Israel's prime minister.  According to Israel's foreign ministry, the NYT writer, Nicholas Kristof, based his piece "on unverified sources tied to Hamas-linked networks". The story by Nicholas Kristof, headlined The Silence that Meets the Rape of Palestinians, published on May 22, cited Palestinians' accounts accusing Israel of violence against Palestinians by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and prison guards.

 

The NYT op-ed columnist failed to fact-check his sources, much less question their truthfulness reliability.  Kristof quoted a Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor report accusing Israel of using "systematic sexual violence, widely practiced as part of an organized state policy". Yet NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based group, found key members of Euro-Med to be associated with Hamas. The founder of Euro-Med and its chair, Ramy Abdu, is noted to be a Hamas "main operative and institution" in Europe.

 

The Committee to Protect Journalists described by Kristof as "a respected American organization" was also cited. Despite that investigative journalist David Collier in 2024 discovering that the group regurgitated Hamas propaganda in a report that accused Israel of targeting journalists in Gaza. Those 'journalists' for the most part in actuality being members of Hamas. "[Our] American tax dollars subsidize the Israeli security establishment, so this is sexual violence in which the United States is complicit" wrote Kristof.

 

As well, Kristof side-stepped any mention of Professor Alon Pikarsky's expert opinion as director of general surgery at Jerusalem's Hadassah-University Medical Centre, a surgical specialist in colorectal surgery whose professional opinion was that lack of damage to the terrorist's anus appeared self-caused "as it is precisely the self-insertion of a foreign body, which can also cause a rupture in the rectum, that will not cause damage to the anus itself since the inserter [patient] will ensure a gentle and non-traumatic insertion of the foreign body."

 

"The medical records made available to me [hospitalization documents, as well as a computer screenshot dated July 8, 2024, by Dr. Muhammad Melhem] which do not indicate any wounding to the anus, support self-insertion and not insertion by any external party", concluded Dr. Pikarsky.

 

Just coincidentally, Israel had made available to The New York Times the results of a recently published investigative report on the sexual violence and other atrocities that took place during the October 7, 2023 mass invasion by thousands of Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas through examination of scores of witnesses, survivors, photographs and videos taken by the invading terrorists themselves as they committed acts of unspeakable depravity in sexual violence through mutilation, humiliation, mass rapes, and murder.

 

People visit the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, as Israel marks the second year anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Re’im, southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

 

The level of barbarity in that brutal violence unleashed against a civilian population in southern Israel was found to be systematic, widespread, and a calculated component of the terror assault. Conducted by the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children, the investigation determined that the sexual violence was designed not merely to brutalize victims but to terrorize Israeli society, tormenting the entire nation through the sadistic nature of the savagery meted out on that day. 

"What we have witnessed is deep hatred to humiliate us and terrorize us as a people, as a nation, as women, as vulnerable people who found themselves in captivity and in a prolonged hell", explained Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, an international law expert and founding chair of the Civil Commission.

At the very time that the Civil Commission  released its findings, well documented and accounted for, The New York Times made a decision to run a shocking story alleging that the Israel Defense Forces, Israeli prison guards, and members of Israeli security and intelligence agencies were perpetrators of profoundly disturbing acts of sexual torture of Palestinians, accusations that would not hold up to expert scrutiny, accusations that used the testimony of a people well known to use public relations, slander, blood libel against Israelis with no relation to truth or reality.  

Screenshot of the recorded testimony of Darin Komarov, a survivor of the Nova Music Festival massacre to the Civil Service Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children. (Courtesy, Civil Commission)