Why the NYT doesn't belong in Israel

Robert Besser makes a case for why the New York Times and its reporters have no business being in Israel:

Just because Israel is a democracy that believes in free speech does not mean that we Jews must commit suicide on the altar of the free press.

Rather, let Israel take actions to protect ourselves from the Jew-hating New York Times, including:

1) Stop New York Times reporters from working in Israel because the Times does not report truthfully about Israel.

2) Israel must not allow New York Times reporters to work in Israel because they apply a double standard in criticizing Israel that they do not apply to other countries.

3) Israel must bar the New York Times from working within Israel because they have an anti-Israel political agenda and do not provide their readers with unbiased or truthful reporting.

Of note, this issue goes far, far beyond Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times, who wrote unbelievably on May 11 that the Jews of Israel use dogs to rape Arabs.

Kristof’s column was labeled the “most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel," by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In writing such age-old antisemetic libels, Kristof was doing was what he is paid to do by the New York Times as one of their hired guns. As proof of this, senior editors allowed his May 11 blood libel against the Jews to be published. They did not fact check or question Kristof’s absurd obscenities…..because at the New York Times everyone is paid to believe such lies.

Kristof is one of the most desensitized-to-violence writers to be found in what passes for journalism today, and he could make a great example of a reporter who should no longer be welcome to enter Israel at all.