Barbara Kay

Finlayson deserves the support of all Canadians who value freedom of speech and see the danger of double standards in discourse codes. Terrorists are fair game for strong negative language. And standing with Israel in defence against terrorism is a benign statement. Or should be.

@jonkay @Quillette But how many Canadians besides you & Mr. Porter have they targeted for attack? My count is now at least 8 ! At least they have given us an appropriate name for this new state-sponsored entrapment propaganda - FORGERY MEDIA! x.com/LionofJOct7202…

Excellent exposé of what stupid and unethical uses our tax dollars fund.

Yes, Anand's sister was the outside investigator whose report was heavily relied on for his firing, even though it was clear the fix was in. When a uni is set on firing someone (and there is evidence they had made up their minds on Day One) , they usually cherrypick outside investigators, choosing only those who can be counted on to support their biases.

This prof has a prolific history of posted and reposted anti-Israel memes, some of which are pretty hard-core, but there is no danger of him losing his job.

Genderwang Enters Its Apocalyptic Phase open.substack.com/pub/jonkay/p/g…

Great news!!! Go @cawsbar GO!!

Oh look, @GuelphHumberUni, you made Fox News and now millions of Americans will know what an unsafe space you are for those in your community who defend prefer Israel to Hamas: Non-Jewish professor says he was fired for calling out Hamas supporters in online post foxnews.com/world/non-jewi… #FoxNews

Where is @NickKristof when a real story of horror is happening?

Agree. So many Canadians have Kemi envy.

Good.

Deepest dive and most outstanding piece yet on the wretched dog-rape Kristoff column: The Last Public Editor open.substack.com/pub/henmazzig/…

Two different allegations: women are not men. Think about it.

Good guidelines: How to Define an Antisemite - @IsraelVideos israelunwired.com/how-to-define-…

Much has been written about @NickKristof's latest NYT opinion column over the past 24 hours, most of it focusing on the specific claims and their sourcing, but what I think deserves most attention is something broader: how this kind of journalism, whatever its intentions, ultimately makes accountability harder to achieve rather than easier, and harms the very people it claims to champion. The principle that Israeli abuses should be investigated and condemned is not in dispute, and nobody serious is arguing otherwise. Israel is not above scrutiny, and in fact it operates under more intense international scrutiny than almost any country on earth, routinely held to standards applied nowhere else. The problem here is something different entirely: the complete collapse of evidentiary standards the moment Israel is the subject. This piece reads less like rigorous reporting and more like a catalogue of hearsay, unverifiable allegations, and activist claims stitched together into a sweeping moral indictment. Its sourcing leans heavily on Euro Med Human Rights Monitor, an organisation repeatedly criticised over extremist ties, disinformation, and deeply questionable methodology, yet treated throughout as a credible authority while its leadership openly engages in pro Hamas propaganda on X. Worse, the same ecosystem of activists and self appointed “experts” that amplifies Euro Med’s claims online increasingly feeds narratives into more established organisations and media outlets, laundering deeply contested allegations into the appearance of institutional credibility. The most severe claims are anonymous, uncorroborated, and presented in the emotional register of established fact rather than allegation, despite lacking meaningful evidentiary backing. Yet Kristof largely adopts them without serious scrutiny, publishing the piece in the Opinion section because even the already diminished evidentiary standards often applied to reporting on the Israeli Palestinian conflict would likely not suffice for it to pass as straight news reporting. This approach doesn't strengthen accountability, it actively destroys it. When every allegation is immediately inflated into systematic rape and "standard operating procedure" before any serious verification, genuine investigation becomes harder rather than easier. Real abuses, if they occurred, get buried beneath maximalist narratives so extreme that large portions of the public simply stop trusting any of it, and the people who actually suffered pay that price. It also alienates the vast majority of Israelis and Jews worldwide, including the many who are perfectly capable of criticising Israeli policy and supporting investigations into misconduct, but who understandably recoil when accusations begin resembling modernised blood libels dressed up as human rights reporting. The framing matters enormously, and so does proportionality, and so does evidence. Nor does any of this serve Palestinians. Atrocity inflation entrenches both sides deeper into defensive tribalism, and every dubious claim amplified by a prestigious outlet makes legitimate criticism easier to dismiss when it actually matters. The timing compounds everything. On a day when documented reporting on Hamas sexual violence was again circulating, the NYT chose to run an opinion column built substantially on unverifiable anonymous testimony asserting that Israelis are conducting systemic rape campaigns, not as a rigorously evidenced investigative report but as an opinion piece with the imprimatur of the paper of record. Kristof is not a naive bystander in any of this. In 2014 he used the full credibility of the NYT to repeatedly platform Somaly Mam, a Cambodian anti-trafficking activist whose harrowing personal story he championed across multiple columns, until it emerged that her backstory was substantially fabricated and he was forced to issue a public correction. When challenged this time around on his sourcing, corroboration, and methodology, he defaulted to bad faith engagement on social media rather than addressing the underlying concerns seriously. It is the same pattern, playing out again in a different context. Real journalism requires skepticism, corroboration, and restraint applied consistently regardless of the subject, and when those standards disappear the moment Israel is involved, what remains is not human rights reporting but narrative activism wearing a journalist's costume that does far more harm than good to everyone it claims to serve.

@BarbaraRKay @nytimes @NickKristof

Terrific news!

If @Nickkristof had given the 'trained rape dogs' allegation a minute's objective thought, he would have concluded that if such a training program were possible, Hamas would have brought a 1000 such dogs (it would have been their pleasure to train) with them on Oct 7. Their yearning to hit the limits of moral depravity was palpable. Why would they have stopped short of what they accuse Israel of doing? They projected what they *wished* they could have done to Israelis.

#Israel Beyond the Precipice open.substack.com/pub/claritywit…

"Anyone who’s followed the Middle East situation for more than five minutes is aware that Israel’s enemies are constantly making up ludicrous claims about trained animals. Israelis are apparently the greatest animal trainers in history. The country has been accused of deploying sharks, rats, lizards, cows, dolphins, hawks, and pigs by its enemies." : @NickKristof’s grotesque journalistic malpractice washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/456454…