{"id":73209,"date":"2026-05-16T03:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/73209\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:06:11","slug":"nyt-accuses-israel-of-trying-to-stifle-journalism-undermine-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/73209\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT accuses Israel of trying to &#8216;stifle journalism, undermine reporting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times accused Israel of attempting to \u201cundermine independent reporting and stifle journalism\u201d after the Prime Minister\u2019s Office announced that it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896230\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take legal action<\/a> against the outlet on Thursday over a controversial column.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The column, which was written by Nicholas Kristof, included allegations of severe sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli Prisons and was described by the PMO as \u201cone of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NYT fired back at the PMO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-896131\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defending<\/a> Kristof\u2019s opinion column and claiming that it was \u201cdeeply reported\u201d in a statement released on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the NYT alleged that the threat of legal action \u201cis part of a well-worn political playbook that aims to undermine independent reporting and stifle journalism that does not fit a specific narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NYT compared the reaction to Kristof\u2019s column to an incident that occurred in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-863681\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 2025<\/a> after they published a misleading photo of a young boy with an article about alleged starvation in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">It was later revealed that the boy in the front page photo had a preexisting medical condition that led to his unwell appearance, and he was not starving.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the NYT \u201cshould be sued\u201d during an interview with Fox News&#8217; Bill Hemmer. &#8220;I&#8217;m actually looking at whether a country can sue the NYT, and I&#8217;m looking into it right now, because I think it&#8217;s such a &#8230;it&#8217;s such a clear defamation,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times accused Israel of attempting to \u201cundermine independent reporting and stifle journalism\u201d after the Prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16469],"tags":[244,243,1850,13800,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-73209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-benjamin-netanyahu","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-lawsuit","11":"tag-new-york-times","12":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116582048267796577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}