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@peterbakernyt @nytimes @katie_robertson I grew up with the Times. Cancelled my subscription recently and not sorry for a moment. The Times has become unreliable, untrustworthy and just plain garbage.

The @nytimes added 310,000 net new digital subscribers in the first quarter, surpassing 13.1 million total, the largest paid audience in the history of the paper. @katie_robertson nytimes.com/2026/05/06/bus…

@mccaffreyr3 George Washington owned slaves too. And when he fought for independence, he was also fighting to protect his 'property" as he viewed it. Because it was already apparent that Great Britain was beginning to get rid of slavery. You're being more than a bit hypocritical.

Slavery. The only question on the table. Lee owned slaves and fought to protect this atrocious ownership of humans as property.

Amnesty International is supposed to defend human rights. Instead, they’re spending their time and resources campaigning to ban an Israeli singer from a song contest. Let that sink in: While women are being murdered in Iran, journalists are being tortured in Iraq, and civilians are being massacred in Sudan, Amnesty International has decided their priority is… boycotting a 28-year-old Israeli artist from Eurovision. Not stopping genocide. Not freeing political prisoners. Not rescuing trafficked children. Banning a Jewish singer from a music competition.

@brianstelter @nytimes I am a born-and-bred New Yorker who has read the NY Times all my life. I am unsubscribing from the NY Times. The Kristof crap was just the latest and the last straw.

While threatening to sue the @nytimes today, Netanyahu said "we will fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law," notably listing the court of public opinion first.

@brianstelter @nytimes Israel can't win this case because of our press laws. Nonetheless, The New York Times has become a total disgrace. And Kristoff? Remember his stream of stories on Somaly Mam that turned out to be false. Remember the documented lies he told in his failed bid for Oregon governor.

@Volpe_Anthony Screw the boos, Anthony Volpe. I'm rooting for you, and so are a lot of other fans. Tune them out, and do your best!

@james_violette @HenMazzig I don’t there’s much you can do to Hen from Pakistan.

@HenMazzig Give it a rest. The world has witnessed sadistic violence from Israelis - proudly shared on video- for 2 years. Decent people are horrified by the lack of humanity the average Israeli possesses. We ain’t buying your emotional manipulation. You will be held responsible. Times Up

Nicolas Kristof has a lifelong obsession not with amplifying the story, but with being its hero. I wrote about his troubled past as a "hero journalist," and how the guardrails at the New York Times that used to keep him in check have been systematically dismantled. Link in comment.

@IsraelWarRoom The apex of Palestinian tech.

🚨 A Hamas supporter wears a prop suicide vest in NYC. Let that sink in.

@WalshFreedom The people who need to read this report are Democrats: Jayapal, AOC, Warren. But they won’t.

The people in the West who should read this report won’t read this report.👇

@Timodc @UserrrNamezzz Not good enough, gay bigot.

@UserrrNamezzz hamas has committed many bad atrocities we saw them on video i have spoken and posted on them at length.

I have a bold idea. Rather than litigate the veracity of mutual mass rape claims in a 2000 year old religious war btwn authoritarian regimes maybe we should offer humanitarian aid where needed & focus on our own interests. You might call it a pivot to Asia or even “americans 1st”

@Timodc @LevineJonathan I am sure you will be free to visit Palestine and report what it’s like being thrown from a rooftop for being gay. Go clutch your pearls, asshole.

@LevineJonathan i'm sure you will be free to go to the West Bank and report what's happening there without any issue then. look forward to learning what you discover and correcting the record.

@Timodc Hey Tim. Why don’t you join Queers for Palestine, take a trip to Gaza and see what Palestinians do to pearl clutching gays like you. Enjoy your trip down from the rooftop.

@WalshFreedom This is why I am no longer a Democrat. And I am not a Republican.

Respectfully, your “bold” idea (though I disagree with it) might be better received if you didn’t try to draw a moral equivalence between Israel’s government and the ruling regimes of Israel’s Islamist/terrorist neighbors. There is none. Also, not all “mass rape claims” are equal - see the release today of the Civil Commission On Oct 7 Crimes Against Women & Children report - just a bit more comprehensive than the unverified claims of training dogs to rape Hamas prisoners.

@Timodc People like you are why after voting Democrat for 45 years, I won't be voting Democrat again, Tim Miller.

@boredape1234 @AdarWeinreb @JoePetty918 @havivrettiggur That's right. I don't go where the pedophiles go. Apparently you do, and that says all we need to know about you and 4 chan.

@rob53soi @AdarWeinreb @JoePetty918 @havivrettiggur You clearly haven’t been on 4chan. Pinochet and the Nazis have documented cases of penetration by dog.

A lot of subscribers have asked what I made of the Nick Kristof oped. So much has already been said. What more is there to say? My first thought was everyone else's. Horrifying. Testimonies of pain and torture. We know that the Israeli Prisons Service is notoriously incompetent. There have been cases of Hamas prisoners abusing each other, and even famous cases of them abusing female Israeli guards. We know, too, that all prison systems struggle with the problem: New York prisons face 2,000 claims against them. So abuse of prisoners isn't merely possible, it's guaranteed. October 7 and the ensuing war sent thousands of detainees into the prisons. And in the early months, drafted into the system undertrained reservist guards. Guards who had seen Hamas's videos gleefully documenting their crimes. I expected, therefore, a hard-hitting story of real abuse, something Israeli leaders must take notice of. And then I came across the first obvious lie. And then the second. And then an odd claim -- maybe possible, but how exactly? -- and then another just like it. And a famed Hamas propagandist laundered as a reliable source. And then another. Why, if there is no doubt that abuse occurred -- and there is no doubt -- was there so much obvious propaganda in Kristof's oped? I won't pretend the lies weren't a relief. They were. It's agony to read about Israeli criminality, and the lies let me cast doubt on the whole narrative. There's an obvious propaganda campaign at work here. But as claim followed claim, it became hard not to wonder: Despite the propaganda, what part is nevertheless true? How bad has it gotten? So here's what we know, or at least what I think I know. This is a campaign that seeks our destruction. Kristof quotes people who celebrated October 7 and want Israel destroyed, and will lie to achieve that goal. We know how the lies in this story made their way into it, where they came from and what purpose they serve. Even so, I'm not willing to conclude there's no truth at all in there, just because there are lies. Dogs did not rape anyone. The people who invented that particular inanity claimed it without evidence, knowing that no one, certainly not self-appointed moral arbiters like Nick Kristof, would ever bother checking the provenance of the claim. Because they never, ever do. Because why would they? So the claim spreads through the millions-strong activist network without investigation, exciting and mobilizing -- not because anyone understands how it might be possible but for the sheer thrill of it. And it's cited by Kristof as a reliable report. A recent report by a Norwegian NGO, also referenced, claimed "systemic sexual violence" in the West Bank by citing just 16 cases across three years in a geographic region containing as many as three million Palestinians and over half a million Israelis. And some of the examples scarcely cleared the bar for harassment. But the NGO in question knew for a fact that no journalist would look too deeply into any of it. And indeed, no journalist did. Because they never, ever do. Because why would they? Friends, a paper trail is being created. Just like they created a paper trail on mass starvation in Gaza -- mass starvation first claimed in early 2024, and then claimed again and again by NGOs, the UN, everybody. Some were nuanced warnings of a "possibility," some declared it had arrived. The headlines from both were largely the same. And then, in thundering silence, the mass starvation claim just faded away, never having materialized -- while billions of ordinary people around the world who don't follow too closely remain convinced that countless Gazans died of starvation. So they moved on. A Lancet letter claiming hundreds of thousands of deaths spread like wildfire, mostly because (a) nobody actually read or understood what it claimed and (b) nobody cared enough to check if it was remotely plausible. Then, just in case anyone forgot Lancet, came the claim by UN rapporteurs of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children -- 380,000 infants under five allegedly died, more than the entire population of infants in Gaza. Stupid, right? But it was repeated again and again by activists and protestors. No one checks, no costs are exacted for the never-ending barrage of fakery. Because why would they? A wild religious frenzy has taken hold. Hatred of Israel is now definitional to the left, and to parts of the right. Greta Thunberg has forgotten all about climate change. An enemy of humanity has been identified just in time to unleash all the pent-up religious rage that this troubled secular age won't allow against anyone else. And by complete and utter coincidence, that enemy you're suddenly allowed to hate is vaguely associated with the Jews. Yes, alas, it really is that simple. But also, dear friends -- bear with me -- it isn't. All the above is true. They're fucking liars and bigots. They marched in their millions, again and again and again, for weeks and months and years -- marches completely unprecedented in their size, regularity and duration in all the history of the West, in all the history of war, larger by orders of magnitude than all other marches for all other conflicts and wars and suffering combined, even those caused by their own governments. And no serious person pretends that anything similar could ever have coalesced or will ever coalesce again unless Israel is involved. "But we fund you," shouts the American activist to explain this mind-numbing selectivity. Then why did one-third of the city of Amsterdam march? Or millions of Spaniards, Brazilians and Indonesians? It was unprecedented and it was everywhere. And Kristof has joined the new religion. Not by being concerned about abuse, but by not caring one whit whether he's trafficking in truths or lies. Only the Jews will ask to distinguish between the two. He just needs to throw it all on the page, and his membership in the glorious crusade is assured. Alas, the Jews are correct about the nature of this moment. Some things are so big and fundamental, so assumed and widespread, that they become hard to see. Fish don't notice the water. Activists who can only ever march against Jews are convinced they are merely righteous people enraged by war, without ever pausing to wonder why the only war that ever enraged them or ever made its way to their phones was one particular war, and not larger and deadlier wars also conducted with Western weapons and money. And so the Jew is made fearful once more. Throughout Christendom and Islam, he is being returned to his proper place in the social hierarchies of old, complete with anxious conversos and ideological purity tests. And yet, still, despite it all, their lies aren't the end of the story. Their lies are a separate story. A campaign of lies that constitutes a return to the mean for the Jewish condition in the West. A campaign meant to justify brutality against us, not to end war or suffering. And despite all of it, dear Jews, there really is abuse. It's nowhere near as much as the psychotic claims of these fantasists. Not by orders of magnitude. If it was, they wouldn't need to lie so much. But it's there nonetheless. Many dozens of cases at least, probably in the low hundreds by now, most of them without any sexual aspect, but still wanton violence. Exact numbers are hard to come by, but the army gave a few estimates to the courts a couple of times over the past three years. There have been many indictments filed against soldiers, serious ones. I know something about a handful of those cases. I know that the problem is real. It's there, it's real, and it doesn't seem to be stopping. And if it isn't stopped with an iron will and uncompromising hand, it will continue to fester and grow. And it must be said: neither Ben Gvir nor Netanyahu are interested in fixing it. Nobody at the top cares about the rights of prisoners. Let me be clear: For the first time in my life, I support a death penalty. No one who crossed over the border to massacre and kidnap on October 7 should be left alive; they came to kidnap children precisely because they sought the release of mass murderers kept alive in our prisons. Hamas, as always, in its totalizing brutality, forces the choice: If their murderers live, our children may die. I choose our children. And those who came for our children cannot be deterred, reformed or deradicalized. They murder their own to clear a path to murdering ours. And so I believe they must die. We must try, convict and destroy them. And even I, radicalized in this narrow, specific way, say we cannot collapse into torture or abuse. That's not justice. It isn't even vengeance. It is participation in Hamas's way of war. Nor do our leaders seem to care about the simple breakdown of discipline that these abuses represent, the kind of breakdown we saw again and again with the incidents of looting in Gaza and in the early cases of prisoner abuse that came to light. No, dogs aren't being trained to systematically rape prisoners, you nattering halfwits. And no, Hamas propaganda operatives are not reliable sources on the question of Israeli crimes. The vast, vast majority of soldiers are honorable men who walked into fire so our families may live. The whole world may turn on them; I will stand with them, grateful for their sacrifice. And Kristof, a willing purveyor of propaganda happily feigning that he can't see the water and thrilling to a moral crusade engineered by would-be genocidaires he pretends not to understand -- is no messenger of moral reckoning. But friends, so fucking what. Let the narcissistic guttersnipes strut their moral emotions before the world, let the UN publish endless reports that don't hold up to basic scrutiny, let the NGOs dream their rabid, sick dreams that no journalist ever fact-checks -- yes, they're lying. But so fucking what. We still, for ourselves -- because fuck them -- must see that it isn't all fake. The problem is real. It's far smaller than they claim, but real nonetheless. And when discipline and morality break down, it can only get worse. We either crack down now or we watch it fester and grow. And our own Ben Gvirs are stubbornly refusing to fix what is actually broken, the real thing in the real world. And so we are caught in a strange sort of vise, the same vise we find ourselves in with the genocide lie: A vast propaganda machine that seeks to destroy us -- countless activists too high on their own self-regard to see the irony of raging against a "genocide" while calling for the erasure of a people -- all while our own incompetent, venal, self-absorbed political class insist in their mindless chatter on confirming every claim of our enemies for sheer, bald egomania. I'm sick of it all. I know you're all sick of it too. And that, in a nutshell, is what I think about this. Just because they're lying, just because a vast perfidious campaign has overwhelmed global elites in a bid to clear the way for our removal, just because they're still, after two millennia, building their visions of redemption on The Evil Jew -- doesn't mean there isn't also, separately, a problem on the ground. So what do we do now? Simple. We see it, we acknowledge it's happening, we bring our rage to our inept leaders until they bend to our will and act to stop the breakdown... And we soldier on. We soldier on because the enemy really is coming to murder us. Because Hamas must still go if Gaza is ever to rise to a new day. Because Hezbollah will yet destroy Lebanon on the altar of destroying us. Because the ayatollahs built their whole damn religion on the extermination of our children. We fix the broken things within us as if the pogromists and their simpering Kristofs don't exist. We owe no answers to the propagandists who seek to clear a path to our deaths. But we do owe answers to ourselves. Let the screaming mob rage and churn like so much sea-foam. Despite that raging mob, despite the enemy who still seeks our destruction, and yes, despite feckless incompetents like Ben Gvir, our minister of prisons, who claim to lead us -- we remain the strongest, freest Jews who ever lived, more capable and committed than our self-destructive enemies ever imagined. And the task is still before us, yet to be completed, the sacred duty given to our generation to ensure our children don't have to face the genocidaires who now surround us. We do not waver, we do not stumble. We soldier on. Because fuck them all.

@AdarWeinreb @JoePetty918 @havivrettiggur Lastly, there has never been a documented case of it. Aside from the allegations in Kristof's story, find me an evidence-based documented case of a dog raping a human on command, or spontaneously.

@JoePetty918 @havivrettiggur Dogs often hump people. And if a dog humps someone who's bent over and naked, that certainly can constitute rape. The only reason you believe this is impossible is because you can't fathom Israel doing something like this, not because it's actually impossible.

@AdarWeinreb @JoePetty918 @havivrettiggur Control Limitations: Professionals argue there is no standard training framework for this because the behavior cannot be reliably controlled or deployed in an operational situation.

@WalshFreedom I disagree with you being in the tent with Mamdani. No DSA in the Democratic Party. Expel them all. The DSA will do Democrats what MAGA did to Republicans.

I’ll be in the same big tent with Zohran Mamdani, but there’s no tent big enough for me and Graham Platner. And I know the vast majority of Democrats probably disagree with me. That’s ok, I can only tell you what I think. Let me explain.👇open.substack.com/pub/socialcont…

@MichaelFranzese Dear Michael. A long time ago, Meyer Lansky organized Jewish mobsters to teach a lesson to Nazi supporters in NYC. Is there no Jewish mob left to teach a few lessons to the pro-Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran supporters destroying our city and our country?