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Israel’s response to rape allegations: threaten the newspaper

Threatening the messenger instead of addressing the message is one of history’s less convincing tells.

Jason Weisberger
May 14, 2026
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Nicholas Kristof publishes a deeply reported piece in the New York Times collecting horrific allegations of sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees, and Israel’s response appears to be skipping past the whole “investigate the accusations” phase and going directly to threatening the newspaper. Very normal, very confi…

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