{"id":130593,"date":"2026-05-16T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=130593"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:24:05","slug":"19-05-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=130593","title":{"rendered":"The anti-Jewish fever dream of \u2018The New York Times\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/jns-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/column\/melanie-phillips\/the-anti-jewish-fever-dream-of-the-new-york-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The anti-Jewish fever dream of \u2018The New York Times\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Melanie Phillips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We\u2019re living through a throwback to murderous beliefs from before the age of reason.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.jns.org\/dims4\/default\/35b29b7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1003x565+0+102\/resize\/1000x563!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.jns.org%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2FSandomierz_katedra_-_mord_rytualny.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>An fresco of a blood libel painted by the monk Adam Swach (1668-1747) at the cathedral basilica in Sandomierz, Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It\u2019s now clear that we are living through a civilizational emergency. Just as the Palestinian Arabs tried to bring about the destruction of Israel in the attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, so the Islamic world has deployed the cultural apparatus of the West to destroy the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The spurious distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism is no longer even being deployed as a fig-leaf. Attacks on Jews are out of control in both Britain and America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In London, such attacks are now taking place almost daily. In New York last week, a mob of Islamists and leftists besieged Park East synagogue on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side; this week, another such mob set upon Jews outside a synagogue in Brooklyn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Anti-Zionism, with its incendiary lies about Israel\u2019s behavior designed to paint it as a unique menace and turn it into the pariah of the world, has been further weaponized to unleash something even darker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">We are witnessing a reversion to primitive, pre-modern forms of Jew-hatred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><i>The New York Times<\/i>\u00a0this week published a 4,000-word article by Nicholas Kristof headlined \u201c<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/11\/opinion\/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians<\/a><\/span>,\u201d in which Kristof accused Israel of training dogs to rape Palestinian Arab prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This grotesque assertion was held to exemplify Kristof\u2019s claim of systematic sexual violence \u201cagainst men, women and even children by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The allegation that dogs were used to rape prisoners, said by experts to be anatomically impossible, is as ridiculous as it is obscene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Tellingly, it combines certain hallmarks of the Palestinian Arab mindset\u2014the belief that dogs are filthy, that Jews are also filthy, and the habitual and false projection onto the Israelis of crimes that the Palestinian Arabs themselves commit against\u00a0<i>them<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Indeed, Kristof has drawn upon precisely this poisonous Palestinian thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The \u201cdog rape\u201d claim has been pushed since 2024 by the Geneva-based\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/euromedmonitor.org\/uploads\/reports\/En-Another-Genocide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor<\/a><\/span>. Kristof treats this source as credible. It\u2019s anything but.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It\u2019s previously claimed that the Israel Defense Forces harvested the organs of Palestinian corpses, another disgusting fantasy drawn from the depths of the deranged Palestinian mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/static.jns.org\/dims4\/default\/9669a5d\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3547x1997+0+479\/resize\/1000x563!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-jns-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F46%2Ff0%2F474091494834bd8faa488604236d%2Framy-abdu.jpg\" width=\"40%\" \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Ramy Abdu, ounder and chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, established in 2011. Credit: Anassjerjawi\/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"Page-articleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody RichTextBody\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Israelis have listed the group\u2019s founder,\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/euromedmonitor.org\/en\/authors\/2\/Ramy-Abdu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Ramy Abdu<\/a><\/span>, as a Hamas operative. The day after the Oct. 7 slaughter and kidnapping of 1,200 Israeli innocents, Abdu posted on X that the perpetrators were \u201cknightly heroes who forged for us a pure glory untainted by the mud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kristof produced not one shred of evidence for his claims. His sources were either anonymous or belonged to the echo chamber advocating the mass murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He quoted terrorism supporters whose own claims of abuse had changed over time. Honest Reporting\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/honestreporting.com\/how-the-new-york-times-laundered-dubious-sexual-abuse-claims-against-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">noted<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that Sami al\u2011Sai, introduced by Kristof as a \u201cfreelance journalist,\u201d has a long record of celebrating terrorists on social media and was jailed twice for incitement. The claims he made to Kristof about his alleged abuse differed in key details from the story he fed the Israeli \u201chuman rights\u201d group B\u2019Tselem last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">More seriously still, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accused Kristof of misrepresenting his words so that he was made to appear falsely as validating these allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In short, the article was a nauseating travesty. But this wasn\u2019t merely recycled Hamas propaganda demonizing Israel. The \u201cdog rape\u201d allegation was a psychotic fever dream straight out of medieval, Nazi and Soviet anti-Jewish demonology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kristof wrote that although some may wonder whether Palestinian witnesses might fabricate accusations to smear Israel, this struck him as \u201cfar-fetched.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Just think about that. To Kristof, it wasn\u2019t\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/u-s-news\/experts-slam-new-york-times-column-alleging-dogs-used-in-sexual-abuse-of-palestinian-prisoners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u201cfar-fetched\u201d<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that a dog could be trained to rape a man. What was instead \u201cfar-fetched\u201d to him was the suggestion that the Palestinians might be lying to harm Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But that\u2019s exactly what they do all the time. Kristof, his editors and other Israel-haters believe Palestinian lies\u2014however absurd and impossible\u2014because they want to believe them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">They regard the Palestinians as the wretched and oppressed victims of the Israelis. That\u2019s why it\u2019s considered as \u201cfar-fetched\u201d to believe that the Palestinians could do anything monstrous to the Israelis, as to believe that the Israelis could be the Palestinians\u2019 victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">That\u2019s also why so many of the Israel-haters have denied the sexual violence done to the Israelis on Oct. 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The day after Kristof\u2019s travesty, the results were published of a two-year Israeli commission of inquiry into the gender-based atrocities committed during the Oct. 7 massacre and subsequent captivity of some 251 people, even young children, dragged that day into the Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The commission, founded by legal scholar Cochav Elkayam-Levy, drew upon more than 10,000 photographs and video segments; more than 1,800 hours of visual material; and more than 430 testimonies and interviews with survivors, witnesses, released hostages, experts and family members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Its findings are very hard to read. The victims were tortured, mutilated and decapitated; a breast was cut off and tossed around; women were shot in the course of being raped and raped after they were murdered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">They were shot in the face to annihilate their beauty and their humanity; nails and other objects were found in their intimate areas; relatives were forced to perform sexual acts on each other. And it was all filmed by Palestinian savages who proudly carried out these depraved acts with delirious glee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This report constitutes meticulously sourced, authoritative research that throws an even more shocking light on Kristof\u2019s warped and malevolently sourced message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><i>The New York Times<\/i>\u00a0has been accused of running the Kristof article the day before in order to diminish the Israeli report. Whether or not this was so, Kristof himself suggested that his aim was to diminish what happened on Oct. 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">His article, he said, showed that \u201cthe horrific abuse inflicted on Israeli women on Oct. 7 now happens to Palestinians day after day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">No other country is treated like this. Only Israelis are to be denied the unique reality of their suffering. Abuse happens in all prisons, and Israel is surely no different. But only Israel is subjected to psychotic lies about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">That\u2019s because Israel is the world\u2019s only Jewish country, and the way Israel is being abused is the way Jews have always been abused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The claim that dogs are trained to rape Palestinian Arab men is merely a modern version of ancient blood libels that the Jews were poisoning the wells or murdering Christian children to bake their blood into Passover matzah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today\u2019s starvation libel, the genocide libel, the baby-killers libel, the harvested organs libel\u2014and now, the \u201crape dogs\u201d libel\u2014all transmit the same message as the murderous blood libels of old: that the Jews are evil, demonic, inhuman. They are therefore to be excluded from the field of human empathy. They are to be branded as monsters and their suffering is to be denied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The combined effect of Kristof,\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>\u00a0and all the other media outlets and red-carpet celebrities and university professors and social media influencers who present the Jews as devils incarnate is that they set the mob on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cYou rape men, you rape children,\u201d screamed the mob outside Park East synagogue. \u201cYou f**king sociopath, I see it in your eyes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Jews are being hunted down on the streets of Western cities just as they were once hunted down in medieval Christian towns. Rampaging mobs were driven by bloodlust, inflamed by the Catholic Church, which told them that the Jews were the devil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Astoundingly, Jews are now facing the same kind of religious mania\u2014this time driven by Islam and left-wing ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">What we\u2019re looking at is a throwback to a primitive set of murderous beliefs from before the Enlightenment, before modernity and before the age of reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">We are realizing to our horror that the skin of civilization is extremely thin, and that it\u2019s now been torn off altogether. We\u2019re living through a spiritual plague. Barbarism is in the ascendant, and its super-spreader is\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/static.jns.org\/dims4\/default\/d4b56d6\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/480x480+0+0\/resize\/100x100!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-jns-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F50%2F68%2Fea78181e42e888f50b30e73a8b4f%2F5.png\" width=\"10%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><strong>Melanie Phillips<\/strong>, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege, has just been published by Wicked Son. Her previous book, The Builder\u2019s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save It, was published in 2025. 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