Ohad Noam

[Ella Ke @EllaTravelsLove]

BDS, the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel, just became a live issue for NYC teachers, cops and firefighters.

Mayor Mamdani has backed it, and activist campaigns are pressuring the city's pension boards to divest.

So what would that actually mean to those influenced?

The targets aren't obscure.

BDS lists name 47 major US companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Disney and Starbucks, because they have offices, R&D, or contracts in Israel.
Those 47 make up nearly 37% of the US large-cap market.

The new analysis suggests cutting them would've cost 2% in returns per year. Projected over a decade, that's an estimated $37B hole in pensions and by law, taxpayers fill the gap.

And Palestinians? Look at SodaStream: its Judea and Samaria/West Bank factory employed ~600 Palestinians alongside Israelis at equal pay, a beacon of hope for co existence. BDS pressure pushed it to relocate to Israel in 2015, and ~500 Palestinian workers lost their jobs.

American workers poorer. Palestinian workers unemployed.

Nobody freed. Everybody billed. Classic pro-Palestine behavior - no positive vision for a better future, just destroying.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

If Iran laid down its weapons tomorrow, there would be peace.
If Israel laid down its weapons tomorrow, there would be no Israel.
That's the difference.

[Thomas (Tom) Lee (not drummer) FundstratDirect.com @fundstrat]

Agree 💯

@joechalom

[Joseph Chalom @joechalom]

https://t.co/CEhi4vF5rL

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

There are monsters in Canada tearing down posters about this missing Jewish girl.

Please circulate this to help find Esther.
#EstherIsMissing

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Because it’s completely made up.

Hope this helps.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: A massive civil war has reportedly emerged within the New York Times, with many journalists questioning the credibility of Kristof’s piece.

One NYT journalist stated: “I am sick of being embarrassed by the Opinion section.”

[Marwan Jaber | מרואן ג׳אבר | مروان جابر @Marwanjaberr]

אתם מבינים מה קורה כאן? נסגר לי חשבון של 270 אלף עוקבים. עברתי לגיבוי שהיו בו 2,000 – וגם הוא נחסם. אתמול פתחתי חשבון חדש, הגעתי ל-700 עוקבים תוך יום, ואינסטגרם סגרו לי גם אותו!
אני כולה בן 17, עוסק בהסברה ישראלית, ולא הגיוני שהשם או המכשיר שלי פשוט מסומנים ומושתקים בצורה אוטומטית כזו. אני חייב עזרה דחופה, תעזרו לי לשתף ולהגיע למי שצריך כדי לפתור את האבסורד הזה

[Moshe Emilio Lavi @MosheELavi]

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.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

I did not expect the last public editor of the New York Times to share my essay about Nicholas Kristof, but I’m glad to receive this (non-judgmental) share:
https://t.co/gXtHQLDiCq

[David Collier @mishtal]

Oct 2023. The New York Times claimed "at least 500 Palestinians" were killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital."

They lied. Islamic Jihad did it. Their rocket hit a car park, not a hospital. And a few dozen were killed.

July 2025: NYT holds up sick child claiming he was a healthy child deliberately starved by Israel.

They lied. The child had Cerebral Palsy.

May 2026: NYT says that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinians.

Guess what? They are lying again. It is blatant nonsense spread by a pro-Hamas NGO. As usual it moves from Hamas propaganda HQ to the pages of the NYT.

Why on earth would you pay any attention to what the New York Times says on Israel?

[Pádraig הלנה 🇮🇪🇮🇱🎗️🟧 @PCJMcElligott]

The Klu Klux Klan used to march through black neighbourhoods in the 50s and 60s, seeking to intimidate black residents and assert white supremacy.

Now antisemites march through Jewish neighbourhoods, seeking to intimidate Jewish residents and assert anti-Jew supremacy.

It was racism then and it’s racism now.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

I cannot believe we have to do this.

The New York Times, the paper of record, just published an op-ed accusing the State of Israel of systematic sexual violence against Palestinian detainees, including the claim that Israel is training dogs to rape prisoners.

One of their sources is a man who left his job after multiple people, including minors, accused him of sending them threatening and sexual messages.

The other is Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a group whose chairman was sanctioned by Israel as a Hamas operative and who publicly called the testimonies of Israeli women raped on October 7th “fabricated lies.”

The Times is using the words of a man credibly accused of sexually harassing children, and an organization led by a man who denies the rape of Jewish women, to build a case that Israelis are sexual predators.

This is the most serious accusation you can level at a country. It demands the most serious sourcing. The Times decided the opinion section was good enough.

It is not good enough.

And spare me the crocodile tears. The same people who spent two years calling the rape victims of October 7th liars, who told us “believe women” had an asterisk when the women were Jewish, are about to share this op-ed with tears in their eyes. They never cared about sexual violence. They cared about who they could pin it on.

I do not want to spend my day writing about this. But when the largest newspaper in the world launders this against my people, silence is complicity.

@nytimes owes our community, and its readers, an apology.

[Ohad Noam @ohnoaus]

@mateo15555742 @Eran_Efrat @castorpinho כי בלי תשתיות הם יקרסו פנימה

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The red pill they don’t want you to swallow:

The explosion of antisemitism after October 7 wasn’t “spontaneous outrage.”

It was a professionally run political campaign ... fully staffed, fully funded, and ready to launch the second Hamas finished slaughtering Jews.

Iran wasn’t just backing terrorists. Iran was the campaign manager. Qatar was the banker. China & Russia played co-chairs. Hamas and Hezbollah were the street muscle. And the entire alphabet soup of NGOs, nonprofits, and “charities” had their signs printed, their volunteers briefed, and their social media bots primed… while the massacre was still happening.

This wasn’t random hate. This was The Hidden Hand ... a coordinated information war executed with military precision.

Warren Kinsella just dropped the receipts. Everything you thought was organic student rage was actually engineered propaganda.

Read it. Share it. The illusion is over.
(article below)

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

2 events happened in Gaza this week.

1 - Over 2,500 people participated in a 5k race.

2 - Doctors Without Borders claimed that Israel is deliberately carrying out the “weaponization of water” as part of a "genocide".

You cannot comprehend how corrupt these organizations are.

[Shimon Levit @ShimonLevit]

Egypt demolished 7,000 buildings on its Gaza border. Displaced over 100,000 people. Sealed the only non-Israeli crossing for years. Flooded the tunnels. Co-ran the blockade.

No protests. No boycotts. No one calling Cairo an apartheid state.

https://t.co/eol0IfsMKR

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Tucker: “This is well known that people are doing this.”

NYT: “Who? Who specifically?”

Tucker: “I don’t know, but they are.”

NYT: “Who’s ‘they?’”

Tucker: “I don’t know. You can say what you think you know, but it’s hard to really know.”

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[AG @AGHamilton29]

So, per all available evidence, corrupt ICC prosecutor Karim Khan is alleged to have sexually harassed and assaulted a female Muslim colleague.

He then tried to keep his victim from coming forward by leveraging arrest warrants against Israeli leaders.

Finally, it now appears, based on the latest reporting in the WSJ and audio recording, that he had Qatar hire 2 private investigation firms to try to dig up dirt on his accuser.

This is the same prosecutor who wouldn't bring any charges against Maudro while his sister-in-law served as a lawyer for that regime.

The levels of corruption are insane.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

One of the craziest things about this recent conflict has been the frenzied attempt to brand ISRAEL as guilty of a ton of sexual violence and woman abuse.

All armies in war are likely guilty of some SV - not always vs women - but Hamas is far worse by any logical standard. They are literally an Islamist Arab terrorist group, which opened the war with hundreds of brutal now-UN-documented rapes.

They aren't "feminists," or whatever fantasy US lefties have constructed.