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Time for the Times to Retract the Israeli-Rape Column

The newspaper’s defense of Nicholas Kristof’s column is indefensible.

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Pedestrians walk by the New York Times building in New York City, December 8, 2022.

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How long will it be before the New York Times issues some kind of correction or retraction of Nicholas Kristof’s column that alleges that Israel systematically sexually abuses Palestinians, including with trained “rape dogs”?

When the Gray Lady splashed the photograph of a supposedly “starving” child on its front page to accuse Israel of orchestrating a “famine” in Gaza — a child who was later revealed to be suffering from a preexisting medical condition, whereas his healthy sibling was conveniently cropped out of the photo — it took five days for a quiet editors’ note to appear online. That episode was embarrassing. This one is worse.

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Rachel O'Donoghue

Rachel O'Donoghue is the content strategy and media analysis lead for HonestReporting.

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