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The Kristof article, plus the report on Hamas’ 10/7 atrocities

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Every aspect of this story is so terrible that it’s hard to face. I tried to deal with it yesterday in a perfunctory manner by putting it in a roundup post.

But I find that simply won’t work. It’s too emblematic of so many things that are deeply and destructively wrong. Thus, this post.

First, some background:

In the months following the October 7 attack, antisemitism shed its inhibitions.

What distinguishes this moment is the collapse of stigma. Expressions that would have ended careers a decade ago now generate applause, clicks, and campaign donations. Language that would trigger immediate condemnation if directed at other minorities is routinely excused, contextualized, or ignored when directed at Jews. Hostility that once hid at the margins has migrated inward—into campuses, political platforms, cultural institutions, and digital ecosystems. The result is an old hatred on steroids—newly unmoored from consequence.

This normalization is not diffuse, but has taken shape through two distinct but mutually reinforcing channels. The progressive left frames Israel as fundamentally illegitimate, a country of inherent injustice. That creates an atmosphere in which hostility toward Israel is cast as an ethical obligation. And for many on the left—and their Muslim activist allies—the distinction between Jews and Israelis frequently collapses.

On parts of the populist right, antisemitism has reemerged through the architecture of conspiracy theory. Jews are cast not as oppressors, but as puppet masters—orchestrators of migration, finance, media narratives, and foreign entanglements. The vocabulary differs from that on the left, but the structural function is identical: Jews are assigned exceptional and malign agency.

What differentiates left and right is not just their emphases, but also the fact that leftist leaders join in and leaders on the right condemn the Jew-hatred. It remains a fringe thing on the right – and many of those involved in it are not even on the right anymore, if in fact they ever really were.

Also from the Posner article:

Holocaust inversion—labeling Israelis as Nazis or Gaza as Auschwitz—has appeared with increasing frequency at demonstrations and across digital platforms.

That inversion – the turning of something upside down or into its opposite – is the Hallmark of modern-day Jew-hatred masquerading at times as anti-Israel sentiment and at other times ripping off the mask. And this inversion is what we have in the Nicholas Kristof article alleging that Israelis systematically rape prisoners, including (and perhaps especially?) with dogs that are trained to rape humans.

Let’s start out by saying that the latter is not even possible (not that Kristof or the NY Times care; the goal is getting the story out there):

Kristof continues to cite medical journal articles he claims prove dogs raping humans is possible. There’s one problem. …

Those medical journal articles talk about the opposite issue … that is, humans practicing bestiality on dogs, not the other way around.

And here is an excerpt from the abstract of one of those articles:

This report delineates a case of anal injury in a 12-year-old boy who gave a detailed history of bestial behavior with a male bulldog. The child described how he had seen this behavior modeled on the internet and subsequently initiated contact with his own dog, causing the dog to penetrate him anally. This type of juvenile bestial behavior with injury has only been reported once previously in the medical literature. … Spontaneous sexual assault of a human by a canine has never been described in the human or veterinary medical literature, nor is such a thing likely.

Dogs cannot be trained to do this – and yet the charges against Israel have a lengthy history:

Grok: Dog handling and canine behavior experts (along with military K9 analysts) have explicitly stated that training dogs to perform sexual assault/rape on human command is not possible in any operational or standardized way.

… [C]laims of IDF or prison guards in facilities like Sde Teiman or Ofer using trained police/military dogs to rape or sodomize detainees—originated primarily from anonymous testimonies collected by groups such as Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (often described by critics as Hamas-linked), the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and amplified by CAIR, Middle East Eye, and some UN summaries.01823 These accounts describe dogs being “let loose” or commanded to mount and penetrate restrained prisoners, sometimes with details like a handler saying a name like “Messi.”

However, these specific “dog rape on command” claims have been widely labeled as baseless propaganda or recycled antisemitic blood libels by fact-checkers and Israeli advocates. They rely on hearsay with zero corroborating evidence: no names, dates, videos, forensic records, or named witnesses—unlike documented cases of muzzled dogs being used for intimidation, biting, or general attacks on detainees (which appear in BBC reporting and human rights monitors).

Multiple sources directly addressing canine training confirm the core point you raise: there is no known training framework anywhere in the world for conditioning dogs to perform directed sexual acts (mounting and penetration) on command in a controllable, repeatable, operational setting. This is not how K9 programs work—IDF’s Oketz unit or any police/military dog units train for detection, tracking, apprehension, or attack bites, not sexual behavior. Sexual mounting in dogs is driven by instinct (arousal, dominance), not precise obedience like “attack” or “sit.” It cannot be standardized, deployed reliably, or switched on/off without massive ethical, legal, and practical barriers.

This impossibility aligns with basic canine biology and professional dog handling: you can train dogs to aggress or intimidate, but engineering them into tools for targeted rape defies how animal behavior is conditioned. Claims of this nature echo historical fabrications and lack any precedent in real military or law-enforcement dog programs.

Neither Kristof nor the Times cares to do the most basic fact-checking of the claim, which of course is “too good to fact-check.”

The Kristof article is Orwellian. The Times should be deeply deeply ashamed of publishing it. But in the current climate, it could get a Pulitzer to go with Kristof’s two previous ones.

The article is an excellent example of the Islamic terrorist’s propaganda modus operandi, and in particular the favorite Palestinian ploy of accusing your enemy of what you yourselves do – not rape with dogs, of course, but rape, humiliation, degradation, and torture of enemies. Kristof’s article is a bunch of propagandist rumor dressed up as news (but placed, interestingly enough, on the “Opinion” page, probably for legal reasons), but it came out one day before a report on Hamas’ 10/7 atrocities – which were exhaustively documented by Hamas’ selfie videos and the testimony of survivors. The evidence is night and day, although the allegations in both pieces are horrific and disgusting, because torture and rape are horrific and disgusting. But the content of the Hamas report is one of the most horrific and disgusting things ever (and I don’t say that lightly), and has the extra-horrific element of being true.

But “horrific and disgusting” really doesn’t even begin to cover it. I don’t think any words do. You can read the report here, or you can read summaries here and here – if you can stomach it.

How can people champion those who perpetrated these vile offenses and videoed themselves in the act? By denying the atrocities or by excusing them or by reveling in them. Those three responses are quite different from each other, but they have the same effect in the end.

I have read a great deal of Holocaust literature in my lifetime. Some of the descriptions of what happened back then are so awful I wish I’d never read them. The same is true of this, about which I have only read summaries but those are bad enough. The deeds are demonic, depraved, sadistic, limited only by the human imagination (which at times seems unlimited).

Many Holocaust survivors have reported that their tormentors often told them two things while they were in the camps. The first was that the victims would never get to tell their tales, because they would all be killed and the Nazis would successfully destroy the evidence. That didn’t happen, although the Nazi perpetrators tried to make it happen. But the Gazans of 10/7 weren’t interested in hiding the evidence; they broadcast it. They knew from previous experience that the some would deny despite this evidence, and some would goulishly delight in it and be inspired. This makes them arguably worse than Nazis.

This is a fascinating report based on intelligence captured from Hamas. It’s well worth reading the whole thing, but here’s a relevant excerpt:

To light that internal powder keg, Sinwar needed a spark. This necessity explains one of October 7’s most gruesome aspects. Sinwar was convinced that capturing and broadcasting “explosive images” right at the start of the offensive would “trigger a surge of euphoria, frenzy, and momentum” among Palestinians and Arab Israelis. The goal was to spur a violent mass uprising while simultaneously paralyzing the Israeli public with terror. That is why Hamas terrorists wore body cameras and gleefully livestreamed their own atrocities.

I think they also must have believed that the West would not object – that either terror or excuses and justification (or denial) would be the West’s reaction. They almost certainly knew that the West had been primed, saturated for decades with Pallywood propaganda and taught by pro-Palestinian professors, with the cooperation of “journalists” – such as Kristof.

The other thing the Nazis told their victims was that, even if any of them did somehow manage to survive, the world would never believe them. When Eisenhower made and then released films of what the Allies found when they liberated the camps, and when he made some of the locals come and see the dead, he was aware of the risk of non-belief and he wanted to document at least some of the atrocities for future generations. And yet there are plenty of Holocaust deniers today, as well as Holocaust celebrators.

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The Kristof article, plus the report on Hamas’ 10/7 atrocities — 20 Comments

  1. Repeating a comment I found on Eve Barlow’s Substack post about the same topic:

    “I propose every holocaust museum across the globe includes October 7.”

  2. So Sinwar overestimated the barbarity of Arabs in Israel and surrounding Arab countries. It’s good to know there are some limits, somewhere.

    As to Kristof, he should be fired, and shunned.

  3. Kate:

    You are correct, but who’s going to fire and shun him? The editors who published his piece, which never should have passed muster in the first place?

  5. Kristof and those who approved publication of this libel are, by their own standards… guilty of ‘hate speech’… Prosecute them for incitement to violence.

    “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

    No, using the very same tactics against leftists and liberals that they use, only makes us no better than them, when we initiate an attack with their tactics. When an attacker wields a gun, responding with a gun is a proportionate and just response.

  6. On the Federalist podcast, either Harsanyi or Hemingway pointed out that the dog rapists sounds exactly like something a Mahometan would make up, because the rest of us just don’t have their horror of dogs. I’ve noticed that through my life. Many people don’t understand that accusations, insults, and the like have to be made in a way that will bother those whom you see as your audience. It does little good to accuse someone of something he’ll think absurd.

  8. Pace Eeyore and a few others, I have to give some – some – very marginal credit to the blood libeling scum and admit that the commonality of dogs in military and law enforcement roles means that in addition to the Muslim anti-dog bias they would be one of the more likely targets you’d have for it. Also, as someone who has read assorted reports of similar stuff accused historically Grew up with dogs (mostly good boy Golden Retrievers) and did some base level training, and has thought way way way way longer than I can be proud of myself on them, I do think that there is a nonzero chance of training dogs to hurt people with something like this, the issue being you’d need to get the doggo “in the mood” first precisely because you can’t “train” them to be spontaneously aroused, and THEN sic them in the prisoner area and hope that the results speak for themselves, or hope that they basically get that way while angry. Which while poorly documented in scholarship might explain some of the historic reports from say WWII of similar.

    Do I think this actually happened here? Farq no. And what is more these scumbags clearly never thought about how they would explain it. And moreover the Hamastitudes betrayed their unfamiliarity with dogs and contempt for both them and their audiences by things like the “trained to be spontaneously that” stuff that actual animal owners familiar with dogs would know does not work or could not be relied upon, hence the need to consider some kind of stimulus (god forgive me for using that) in any such metrology.

    To quote a certain memetic Ukrainian soldier, “We are very lucky they are so fucking stupid.”

    As for what is to be done? To be blunt I think it is time to go for the institutional jugular. White House and Israel should rescind all NYT press passes of any kind in response to this and declare that they have reached a level of fake news that disqualifies them for any consideration. Remove them from all federal government property. Ban all employees from talking to any NYT affiliate or reporter to the extent possible under the law and then have them do any further contact to the absolute bare minimum demanded by the law. Make it clear that firing Kristof is a necessary but not sufficient condition of any consideration for that changing. And discreetly start giving pointers for lawsuits. It is hard to sue a newspaper or reporter for defamation by intent since the thresholds are intentionally high, but they probably met them here. So encourage survivors and others to take them to the cleaners.

    In any case make the NYT a teachable moment. They should no longer rank among a “mainstream” or “major” or “credible” news source after this.

  9. No they have long since removed about being evil who is euro med monitor another brotherhood appendage

    – Who We Are https://share.google/2gZol6A42N6fiqkwA

    The ayatollah apologist and
    Orchestrator of the
    Goldstone kangaroo tribunal
    There is yelling fire and then there is bringing torches to a theatre

    They well know what a firestorm this will bring

  10. As several here have pointed out, this is projection on the part of Kristof’s “sources.” He, and his editors and publishers, should search their souls on why they chose to publish this vicious piece.

  11. The link was to richard falk the worst apologist for hamas one could find in western academia

    The one who whitewashed the ayatollah in exile part of the goldstone kangaroo tribunal that fanned the flames toward october 7th

  12. For the left, it’s always projection.
    They wish they could train dogs to violate Jews…so that is the accusation they make against the Jews.
    There’s no excuse for Kristof in this, he’s sold his soul and can’t come back to live among sane.

  13. You’re expecting the NYT, the paper that employed Pulitzer-fraud Stalin apologist Walter Duranty, to be embarrassed by base untruths that aligns with their preferred narrative?

    And Om, I’ll do you one better: “Palestinae Delenda Est.”

  14. “He [Kristof] , and his editors and publishers [the NYT], should search their souls …”

    With all due respect Kate, you have a very mistaken assumption embedded here.

  15. Hot Air had a lot of information about Kristof’s “sources” and a scathing rebuke of his post.
    Also the best headline.

    https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/12/kristofnacht-n3814854
    Kristofnacht; UPDATE: Israel Responds
    (The post links several Israeli responses, and ends with a video by the Israeli ambassador.)

    I have been seething since yesterday, and have been trying to wrap my head around the single-worst piece of ‘journalism’ I have seen in The New York Times.

    That’s a very high bar. This is the newspaper that has two Pulitzer Prizes hanging on its walls for publishing pure, unadulterated propaganda. One for denying the Holodomor in Ukraine, covering up the mass murder of millions by Stalin, and the other for pushing the Russia collusion hoax.

    This is the paper that is proud of the Pulitzer it just received for publishing hoax photos purporting to show mass starvation of children in Gaza. It publishes stories from Gaza written by a man who posts about his admiration for Hitler.
    …
    Kristof’s ‘report’ is based on the anonymous testimony of terrorists who have been released by Israel in swaps of prisoners for hostages. These prisoners were all terrorists, most of whom were failed suicide bombers. He adds in accusations from Hamas-linked organizations of such low credibility that they had accused Israel of “evaporating” Gazans with secret weapons similar to phasers in Star Trek.
    …
    [lists the alleged sources and why they probably are not credible]
    …
    No doubt there are abuses against terrorists in Israeli prisons, because there are abuses of prisoners in every prison system, including in the United States. But once you hit the level of “rape dogs” and are taking the word of 14 released Hamas terrorists, you have crossed the line into dark fantasy land.
    …
    Kristof’s slander was timed to hit one day before the release of a final report on Hamas atrocities in the October 7th massacres, which is so horrifying that I won’t repeat the VERIFIED stories of horror, including the rape, mutilation, and beheading of women on a mass scale. There are videos and confessions by Hamas terrorists who were proud to commit these atrocities, and even the very antisemitic United Nations approved the report.

    [AF: When you’ve lost the UN…]

    The New York Times had the report that documented the Hamas crimes, but was uninterested in reporting it. There are videos, testimony, and autopsies, all documenting in gruesome detail what was done. We have all seen hostages paraded through Gaza with Gazans celebrating the atrocities. We have videos of Imams explaining in loving detail how the rape of non-Muslim women is not only allowed, but in many cases necessary.

    Kristof goes with the anonymous testimony of TERRORISTS, and when challenged, claims they had no incentive to lie.

    Okay.
    That’s it.
    I can’t even.

    Final fact that separates truth from fiction: “If the Times had any evidence that what Kristof wrote was true, they would have printed it on the front page of the Times and run stories on it for weeks.”

  16. So we’re analyzing dog rape to see if it’s even possible, are we?**

    Heh, looks like Kristof and his oh-so-earnest employer have us exactly where they want us.

    Mistah Kristof, he…brain dead ingenious!

    (And the JUICIEST quote—among way too many “winners” to really choose from!
    “…Kristof goes with the anonymous testimony of TERRORISTS, and when challenged, claims they had no incentive to lie.”

    Wow! Truly masterful!!
    I’m not even sure Candace Owens can compete with that one…)

    ** Before you know it, the global SPCAs will be piling on the JEWISH state…

  18. Lead editorial in today’s WSJ

    The Truth About Hamas

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hamas-sexual-violence-report-civil-commission-october-7-israel-2e68d781

    I particularly liked their summation:

    We regret having to relate such details, but it is crucial to remember when the understandable human impulse is to forget such horrors. All the more so because the sexual violence by Hamas has been aggressively denied by an antisemitic global left that wants us to forget. Everywhere denial serves the same purpose: to distort Israel’s defensive war as if it were wanton violence. Such deniers prefer anything to reminding the world why Israel has no choice but to fight for its life.

  19. I resolve now that I will do my part to make certain that Nick Kristof becomes a laughingstock over this: I will always refer to him as “Nick Woof-woof Kristof”. He and the NY Slimes should never be able to live this down.

  20. @ Sgt Mom > “He and the NY Slimes should never be able to live this down.”

    Kristof and the Times have apparently been around this block before.
    It’s still in operation and he is still employed there.

    https://freebeacon.com/media/its-hamas-propaganda-new-york-times-writer-nicholas-kristofs-sexual-violence-column-caps-a-career-of-corrections-retractions-and-apologies-going/

    The Washington Free Beacon has been busy doing actual journalism.
    While children are not responsible for their parents’ activities — especially from before they were born! — this biographical background might have some bearing on his beliefs.

    https://freebeacon.com/media/times-columnist-kristofs-father-fought-on-nazi-side-in-world-war-ii/

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