Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the latest offering from a legacy media fantasist.
Nicholas Kristof, the Israeli-dog-rape fantasizing New York Times columnist whose father fought on the Nazi side in World War II and wrote a letter to the Times defending a Vichy war criminal, is back to his old tricks, with a new column that distorts reality about Judea and Samaria while also conceding that even getting rid of Prime Minister Netyanyahu won’t satisfy Kristof or other bitter critics of Israel.
The column comes as the dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, Jeremy Weinstein, is preparing to host Kristof on September 17 for what the Kennedy School calendar indicates is a reception and the Malcolm H. Weiner Lecture in International Political Economy. Kristof’s wife, Sheryl WuDunn, is vice chair of the executive committee of the Harvard Board of Overseers, one of the university’s two governing boards, and a 2018 Harvard Business School case study focused on the couple and “the power of writing to launch and sustain a movement.”
A federal judge, Richard Stearns, who was Bill Clinton’s fall 1969 Oxford roommate and anti-war activism pal and whose anti-Israel activity was an issue in the 1972 presidential campaign, recently dismissed a federal antisemitism case against Harvard on the grounds that the outbreak of Jew-hate had been “too isolated and episodic” to violate the federal civil rights law.
The New York Times is not subject to the federal standards for antidiscrimination that universities are, notwithstanding that it runs a “school” at which boycott-Israel activist Zaina Arafat is a featured faculty member. Prime Minister Netanyahu, however, announced in May that he “instructed” his “legal advisers to consider the harshest legal action against The New York Times and Nicholas Kristof.” And Israel’s consul general in New York, Ofir Akunis, earlier this month said he “ordered the Israeli Consulate in New York to cancel its subscription to The New York Times, a newspaper that consistently demonizes and delegitimizes the Jewish State and publishes false blood libels against the State of Israel.”
