“The great masses of the people … will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” Adolf Hitler, 1925.

In May 2026, the New York Times published an opinion article by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof alleging widespread sexual violence by Israeli authorities against Palestinians. Kristof “exposes” a pattern of Israeli abuse that includes Palestinian prisoners and a Palestinian journalist being held down to allow a dog to rape them. Federal Judge Roy Altman, writing for the Free Press, and Melanie Phillips, writing for the Jewish News Syndicate, are two of the many credible naysayers who have factually debunked the inauthentic claims by Kristof. However, anyone from the general public reading this widely disseminated and discussed New York Times opinion piece would initially and logically form a negative opinion about Israel and its human rights policy.