The Committee to Protect Journalists recently voted not to exclude from its list of journalists those who are either in militant groups or backed by state-sponsored media. The question of trust and reliability when it comes to news and information from conflicts involving terrorists continues.

Just a few weeks back, Nicholas Kristof wrote a dubiously reported opinion piece about the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli detention that stitched together unreliable sources into a blood libel against the Jewish people. It was unsurprising to me. As an Iraqi immigrant, these claims were similar to the denigration of Jews I heard all the time growing up in the Middle Eastern subculture. Yet a second problem of his own making has emerged that further casts Kristof’s reliability and honesty into question.