The NY Times publishes 'blood libel' column | Hour 2

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Because we've got two different stories that have come out regarding the October seventh attack in Israel, as well as a New York Times column that was published that they are standing by by a columnist named Nicholas Kristoff. And I'm going to start with that because that came out first. Okay, So this column was published first on Monday. So two days ago. Notably, the timing here is important. Notably, this column was published a day before the release of a report by an entity called the Civil Commission out of Israel, which has spent two years documenting the sexual violence that occurred by Hamas and Palestinians against Israelis and even non Israelis, just anybody they came across. I don't find the timing to be coincidental. I find it to be intentional by The New York Times in order to get ahead of the Israeli report, because from the very beginning, ever since October seventh, right, the left and the Islamists and all of their apologists, all the Hamas Hols and the Tenta Fada right, they could all justify the violence. After all, it's a prison break. This is an open air prison that they've been kept in, Right, so when the prisoners escape, Well, what did you think globalize the resistance meant? What did you think decolonization meant? I always point this out too, whenever the issue of colonizing comes up with regard to Israel and the Palestinian issue. Probably the global leader historically in colonizing is Islam always has been since its inception that's how it has spread. That's how it conquered two thirds or three quarters of all known Christendom, Right, all those lands, they all used to be Christian and then they got colonized. Okay, so. The tend to fought of folks would always be able to justify in their own minds, at least that the violence, like just killing a bunch of Israelis, you know, murdering people. I mean, yeah, okay, fine, innocent women and children. I mean, maybe things got a little out of control, but they always justified it as armed resistance. This is just resistance. You know. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, right, and all of that. The thing that they could never grapple with, though, was the rapes. They could never address it. So what did they do. They denied it. They said it didn't happen, despite their being video evidence as documented in the Civil Commission report, hours of it, and the evidence of mutilation, like horrendous torture of a sexual nature. That's what That's why I gave you the warning. Like this stuff is documented. Over the course of two years, hundreds of people interviewed, thousands of hours of video and data. They used geolocation right. They placed people into the locations in order to corroborate the stories, unlike what Nicholas Christoff wrote in The New York Times, in order to minimize the impending release of the Civil Commission report. That's my belief because the New York Times was offered this story from the Civil Commission was offered the report, and the Times were objected it. They didn't want it. They didn't want an advanced copy of it. Why would you do that? Because is Israel's bad oppress or repressed, don't you see? But when you have the the accounts of the gang rapes on men and women, but mostly women, when you have all of these accounts that were coming in that the Hamas holays, they could not justify this in a Western media. They couldn't do it because there isn't any There isn't any reason why that's acceptable ever to a Western audience. To a Hamas audience, probably not so bad, right, It's okay because they're Jews. They're like they're subhumans. That's according to to them. And by the way, in the Civil Commission report, they have evidence that this was part of a widespread, coordinated strategy. They did it on purpose, that destroys any kind of a moral framework that even allows you, even justifies killing people raping kids. Now you've lost any kind of moral infrastructure on that argument. It's all gone, which is why they denied it, which is why the Civil Commission did the report. But I'm gonna start with Nicholas Christoff. So there's a writer at National Review named Brittany Bernstein, and she points out that Christof relies predominantly on claims made by the Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Okay, and even Christoff admits in his piece quote, there is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes because the accus here is that Israel Israel allegedly uses sexual violence against prisoners as an organized state policy. Okay, so an organized state policy, that's the accusation that there is a directive of some kind at the governmental level telling their prison guards to rape Palestinian prisoners. But in the same piece he says, there's no evidence that Israeli leaders order this stuff, So I'm not really sure, Like you're undermining your own accusation the allegations, he says, but in recent years, the Israelis have built a security apparatus where sexual violence has become, as a UN report put it last year, one of Israel's standard operating procedures and a major element in the ill treatment of Palestinians. He goes on to side a report from the Euromed Human Rights Monitor that concluded that Israel employees systematic sexual violence and that it's widely practiced as part of an organized state policy. So that's where that language comes from, the Euromed Human Rights Monitor. That's what they say. So who is euromeds of the Euromed Human Rights Monitor, Well, surprise, surprise, they have documented links to Hamas. They have a long record of extreme, unverified accusations against Israel. Those unfounded accusations include that Israel was stealing organs from the bodies of dead Palestinians, that Israeli soldiers were executing patients in cold blood at the Alshifa Hospital, and perhaps most notably, that Israeli forces have trained dogs to rape prisoners. That is not a joke. It did not happen. You can't train a dog to do that. But it doesn't matter, that's what Euromed says. And Euromed, well, they wouldn't lie just because they're linked to Hamas. Oh wait a minute, yeah, Oh, actually when Euromed first published the claim about the rape dogs in twenty twenty four. The group issued a new report last month containing new Detaine testimony, making the same allegation through the same unverified methodology. The slight problem here is that canine experts, canine behavioral experts, say this is nuts. Dogs are not people. They they don't do this. You can't train a dog to do this. There are all sorts of practical problems with this scenario. Two Michael Gould's, one of these canine experts, said the claim is absurd for many reasons, the sexual instincts of dogs, their anatomy, the actual physical concept of it. He said, dogs don't have the instincts or trainability to rape a person, never mind do it on command. The dog rape claim first picked up steam after it was amplified by Chial Benaframe, the former academic and Zionist turned whistleblower quote unquote who has recently trafficked in anti Israel conspiracy theories, who, by the way, left UCLA in twenty twenty after multiple sexual harassment allegations, including one involving a minor. That's the guy with EUROMED. His claims were later picked up by the Electronic Intifada, Owen Jones, Anti Semi and Novara Media. But what the media outlets failed to mention is that Bena Frame has himself acknowledged they all grape claims are quote not verified. Yeah, so the New York Times is amplifying unverified, crazy accusations and they release this stuff a day before the report from the civil Commission that spent two years verifying the rape claims. The timing is not coincidental. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life. And our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Mint Hill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. 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He said, I spend some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to doesn't matter, wre not to give details and whatever. So the point of that tweet though, and why I bring it to your attention from Christoff is a reporter for WRL who covers state politics. Guy by the name of Will Duran he retweets this and he says, maybe the most stunning part of this article is former Israeli Prime Minister ahoud Omer, which is Omert actually but admitting on the record that this regular and unsurprising to him. There are quote, there are war crimes committed every day in the territories end quote that was then retweeted by Will Duran's fellow WRAL reporter, Andy Spect. Neither I went through their timelines. Neither of these two reporters for state focused news outlets. Their beat is state government, okay, and there's nothing on their timelines about the Civil Commission report. It's only about Christoff's article. Although Andy Spect also was retweeting a story out of the West Bank about how the Israeli settlers made some Palestinians dig up a grave of their father or something and take it off the property because it wasn't their property. So Andy Spec, this is what you're dealing with. This is what we're all dealing with. Those are the stories that these reporters are amplifying. There was a reporter for The New York Times who was outside of a Hamas Holly protest in front of like a synagogue or something. They were protesting. There was a mob outside of a synagogue totally not about the Jews, totally about just Israel right, and they're out there protesting, and then they start yelling at the reporter guy and he scribbles on his note pad and holds it up. Have you read Christoff? In other words, I'm on your side, guys. That's what Duran and Specter doing as well. And by the way, when it comes to Ahoot Olmert, he actually put out a statement saying, mister Christoph's article includes claims of extraordinary gravity, that Israeli authorities have directed the rape of children, that dogs have been used as instruments of sexual assault, that systematic sexual torture is state policy. I did not validate these claims. I have no knowledge supporting these claims, as I said to mister Christoff. Therefore, the positioning of my quote after pages of such allegations misrepresents my views. Two weeks ago, Gozen women, so Palestinian women testified about a system of rape by Hamas of Palestinian women living in tents after the bombings and the war and all of that. So Hamas is going around raping Palestinian women. They testified to this last week, Gozen children testified to being raped by Hamas clerics. This week you have the report from the Civil Commission about the Extent of Sexual Violence on October seventh. The New York Times hasn't written about any of it, but they published Christoph's piece. Remember the New York Times photo journalist won a Pulitzer for putting a photo of an emaciated child in his mother's arms in order to show the famine, the starvation in Gaza. What a pulitzer for it. They also won a Pulitzer for the Russia Russia Russia collusion hoax. Right, they never turned that back in. But that kid in that photo had cerebral palsy, and they claimed that it was a healthy child that was being starved by Israel. In fact, they cropped out a perfectly healthy child standing next to the mother holding the emaciated child. They cropped out the other kid in order to convey the idea that Israel was starving this child when the child had something else going on medically. It wasn't starvation, and they want a Pulitzer for it. That's the level of deceit that you are dealing with, that we are all dealing with, all right, So back to this story here. This is again Britney Bernstein from the National Review talking about these ridiculous claims made by Nicholas Christoff. There are only a couple of named actual sources in the article, one of whom is Sammy al Sayi, a quote unquote freelance journalist whose social media is riddled with celebrations of terrorist so that's one of his sources. Also, there have been discrepancies that al Saye has described about his alleged abuse over time. He first started saying that he was simply threatened with sexual abuse by the Israeli guards, I guess while he was in captivity. And then his story changed to that he actually was sexually assaulted. And then he started like swapping out all sorts of different objects that were used. In the assault. First it was a baton, and then it was a carrot, So I'm not really sure. Another source, isa Amro, initially said in twenty twenty four to The Washington Post that he was threatened with sexual abuse, but now the threat has I guess it was more than a threat. It actually did happen. He was actually assaulted, but so his story has changed as well. Christoff, in his writing for the Time, said, some may wonder whether Palestinians fabricated accusations of sex assaults to defame Israel, but he dismisses this as far fetched because none of those I interviewed sought me out or knew who else I was speaking to, and they were reluctant to speak. So that's the reason why this is. This is far fetched, just because you found them and they just happened to be like pro Hamas people. And hey, I read in a Washington Post article from twenty four that you were threatened with sexual assault. Did that actually happen? And surely the Jummas person would not lie to Nicholas Christoph because he didn't know who else Christolph had spoken with obviously, So that's far fetched that they would just make this stuff up. Why would Hamas just make up stuff? Right? The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused The Times of purposefully timing the release of Christoph's column to pull attention away from the findings of Israel's Civil Commission to investigate Hamas's systemic violence during and since the October seventh attack. The ministry said the commission approached the paper months ago. The Foreign Ministry approached The New York Times months ago about the planned release of the report, and that the New York Times quote was not interested in reporting on it. I'm sure there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for that. David hersania It Washington Examiner, talking about Christoph's piece, the headline was the Silence that meets the Rape of Palestinians. He excavates conspiracies so unhinged that no marginally reputable media outlet has ever touched them. Even The New York Times relegates it to its op ed section since the piece breaks every rule of objective journalism. They have an unnamed twenty three year old Palestinian woman that he interviews, but he doesn't give the woman's name. He offers no other witnesses, no complaint that was ever filed, no medical evidence from an Arab doctor, no photos of bruises. In other words, no corroborating evidence at all, nothing but the accusation. Did he verify that the woman had been detained. That would be easy enough to do. Christoph doesn't tell us even which prison the woman was held at, or why she was arrested, or even when she was arrested. Any competent journalist would have heard blaring sirens when a story leaves out any detail that could be used to launch a genuine investigation. It's difficult to believe that's an accident, Yet Christoph treats all the allegations as fact. He then goes through Sami al Sayi. It's an amro. Christoph's cartoonishly evil accusation can tends the Israelis use trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. This hoax is the favorite of online anti Semitic podcaster types, and it originates with the Euromed Human Rights Monitor, a pro hamask Katari based group. It was spread by, among other shady types, conspiracy theorist Chaial Beniframe, a former postdoctoral fellow at UCLA. He was forced to leave the school after sexual harassment allegations involving miners. Palestinians have spent over seventy years pulling hoaxes on gullible Westerners to gain sympathy. 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. He is exactly right. There's even a word for this. It's called pallywood. It's this entire industry that creates fake story, fake videos, and then they shop them to Western audiences. It's a pr campaign, okay. Israelis are apparently the greatest animal trainers in history. The country has been accused of deploying sharks, rats, lizards, cows, dolphins, hawks. And pigs. The only difference here is that a Western journalist was credulous or despicable enough to spread the conspiracy. The only question now is whether Christoph is a dupe for homosopologists who can't be trusted to apply basic journalistic standards to his writing, or is he a willing participant who doesn't care about those standards. Either way, he doesn't deserve to be a journalist any longer. Now. I will say, at least this guy's legacy, Christoph's legacy. He's going to be the dog rape guy. That's what everybody's going to know him as. That's what I'm going to call him for the rest of his life, for the rest of my life life. The fact that you would that you would take that as a serious accusation, but also think about the people and their mindset who come up with such a thing, right The Times of Israel. Times of Israel reporting this is from their staff report. Israeli authorities on Monday denounced as a blood libel a New York Times opinion story alleging widespread rape of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, noting that it relied on sources that have alleged ties to the Hamas terror group or have even praised it. The Foreign Ministry said that Nicholas Christof's column was part of a false and well orchestrated anti Israel campaign aimed at placing Israel on the UN Secretary General's blacklist. UN Chief Antonio Guterres back in August had placed Hamas on the UN blacklist of country and groups credibly suspecting of committing or credibly suspected of committing patterns of sexual violence in armed conflict. At the same time, they put Israel on notice of being placed on the black list. And so that's what the Foreign Ministry is referring to when they say that the New York Times is trying to get Israel put on that list. The Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Yesshiel later Or Lighter, said quote, any complaint of unlawful conduct by Israeli authorities should be submitted to investigative bodies and as is customary in a democratic society, those complaints will be reviewed thoroughly. Whose evidence is mister Christoph leaning on to wield his accusations. A principal NNGO quoted in mister Christoph's piece is Euromed monitor sounds impartial, right balanced, so stately, but lo and behold. Its leaders, Rami Abdu and Maisen Kahel, have been repeatedly found to have links to Hamas. Later on in this piece, Euromed itself has shared conspiracy theories about the October seven attack, alleging the crime scene was doctored. That's what Euromed claimed, and that some of the Palestinians seen dead in Israeli territory with assault rifles after the attack were in fact civilians whose killing had been a war crime. The NGO has also described the people taken hostage by Hamas during the attack as having been quote arrested and moved to the gods of strip. So that's the organization that Christoph is using as one of his sources. Then this is from Martin Boudry, a writer and author of The Betrayal of the Enlightenment. Oh, hang on a second, this is about I'll read his in the next hour, because this is about the October seventh attack, Buck Sexton, talk show host. He says Israel doesn't train dogs to rape Palestinian inmates. That's a vicious, stupid lie pushed by a slimy little propagandist. But this newest blood libel is meant to distract you from the latest released evidence, including video recordings that no credible person says are fake. The video evidence of Palestinians doing the most sadistic, grotesque things imanageable on October seventh, raping corpses while they were while they are mutilating and murdering them, lighting genitals on fire, shooting out the eyes and genitals of helpless victims, forcing husbands to watch as their wives and children are raped and murdered in Palestinians did this on the orders of their elected government, with months of planning to do exactly what they did. This was not spontaneous. The monstrous cruelty, the sexual degradation was the point they knew October seventh was not going to win a war or gain them any territory. It was just an orgy of Jew hate and violence. The Palestinians were mass murdering child rapist terrorists who did all this and were gleeful about it. They made phone calls boasting to their family members. Did anybody in the Hamas government express remorse or regret about any of that or anywhere actually in Gaza? No, No, there was delight in the extreme pain and cruelty of the October seventh operation against Jews. So now some Americans, including ones who claim to be conservative, are taking the side of Hamas and claiming this was a genocide. What are these people really think Israel was supposed to do in response to October seventh. Now that we hear the details, and we're going to go into the report from the Civil Commission in the next hour, like you're going to fight some sort of gentle war or something. Maybe no response at all. Maybe give up right when you hear and you really understand what it is that Halmas did to these people on October seventh. What other nation on the face of the planet would allow that to stand. Any nation that has the capability to go in and utterly wipe out the people that did this to your people would do so. Any nation with the power to do so. I've been saying that since October seventh, all right, that'll do it for this episode. 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