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/

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.

‘”It’s Either Us Or Them’: Far-Left French Mayor Calls For Insurrection If Conservatives Win Presidential Election’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-either-us-or-them-far-left-french-mayor-calls-insurrection-if-conservatives-win

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…

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.
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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]
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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.
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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.”

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

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

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