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New York Times’ libelous campaign against Israel continues apace

Nypost · · 537 words · By Andrea Peyser
Media Bias Antisemitism Israel-Palestine Conflict
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Name Calling / Labeling 90% confidence
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Smears 80% confidence
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Ad Hominem 90% confidence
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Poisoning the Well 85% confidence
Preemptively presenting negative information about someone to discredit their future statements.

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12 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“the so-called Newspaper of Record won a Pulitzer Prize for the 2025 work of a Gaza-based contributing photographer”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Saher Alghorra won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for photography for his work with The New York Times.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces and reviews. One of the lo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New-York Daily Times was established in 1851 by New-York Tribune journalists Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones. The Times experienced significant circulation, particularly among conservatives;…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_The_New_York_Times_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Times has won 135 Pulitzer Prizes. It won its first award in 1918, and has since won more Pulitzer prizes than any other organization. The Pulitzer Prize is a prize awarded within the Uni…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pulitzer_Prizes_awarde…
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“The prize-winning work of Saher Alghorra, 28”
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Multiple sources confirm Saher Alghorra won the Pulitzer Prize; one web search result specifically identifies him as 28 years old, and Wikipedia lists his birth year as 1997, which aligns with being 28 in 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on May 4, 2026 by the Pulitzer Prize Board for works created during the 2025 calendar year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Pulitzer_Prize
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saher Alghorra (born 1997) is a Palestinian photojournalist. Born in Gaza City, he graduated from the University of Palestine and began his career in photojournalism in 2021. He won the 2023 Lucie Imp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saher_Alghorra
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web search NEUTRAL — Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for his "haunting" images documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.Beyond the Gaza coverage, this year's Pulitzer Prizes recognised…
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-photographer-saher-…
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“the paper was forced to issue a correction [regarding a photo by Saher Alghorra]”
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Multiple web search results explicitly state that The New York Times issued a correction regarding a photograph by Saher Alghorra.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charlène G. von Saher (born 4 December 1974) is a British former competitive figure skater. The daughter of a West German skater, von Saher spent most of her life in Greenwich, Connecticut, and traine…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlene_von_Saher
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saher Alghorra (born 1997) is a Palestinian photojournalist. Born in Gaza City, he graduated from the University of Palestine and began his career in photojournalism in 2021. He won the 2023 Lucie Imp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saher_Alghorra
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“Nicholas Kristof, 67, who has a long pattern of getting suckered into promoting hoaxes”
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Wikipedia lists Nicholas Kristof's birth date as April 27, 1959. As of 2026 (the current context of the evidence), he would be 66 or 67.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Melissa Fitzgerald is an American actress and the senior director of the nonprofit organization Justice For Vets. She played Carol Fitzpatrick on The West Wing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Fitzgerald
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959) is an American journalist and political commentator. A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he is a regular CNN contributor and an op-ed columnist for The New …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kristof
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The men's marathon 10 kilometre event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 9 August 2024 in the River Seine, Paris. France spent €1.4–1.6 billion to clean up the Seine in preparation for the Olympi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2024_Summer_Ol…
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“The photographs [of Saher Alghorra] were used to illustrate stories promoting the fiction that Israeli forces were causing famine in Gaza — pieces with such headlines as “No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals.””
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Web search results confirm the existence of the New York Times article with the exact headline 'No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals' and that it featured photos by Saher Alghorra.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The online platforms of The New York Times encompass the established applications, websites, and other online services developed by The New York Times for its operations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_platforms_of_The_New_Yo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces and reviews. One of the lo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review
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“His most famous photo was of a purportedly starving child, whose wretched condition was later discovered to have been caused by pre-existing medical conditions including cerebral palsy, not malnutrition.”
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Multiple sources, including The Jewish Chronicle and a report on the NYT correction, confirm that the child in the photo had cerebral palsy and hypoxemia rather than being solely emaciated from malnutrition.
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web search NEUTRAL — A photo of an emaciated Gazan child wearing a bin bag has caused huge controversy, both for what it shows about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza and the true nature of the boy's condition.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/04/how-a-photo-of…
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web search NEUTRAL — However, it was revealed in the days after the photograph's publication that the child suffered from cerebral palsy and hypoxemia, conditions linked to a suspected genetic disorder affecting his ...
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/gazan-photographer-starving…
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web search NEUTRAL — The New York Times issued a correction on Tuesday, after it published a front-page image last week of an emaciated child to illustrate widespread hunger in Gaza without noting that the boy suffers ...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ny-times-admits-emaciated-gaza…
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“Hamas terrorists who, after massacring more than 1,200 Jews on Oct.7, 2023, blocked and looted food and medical supplies intended for Palestinians.”
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Multiple sources confirm the October 7, 2023 attacks resulted in approximately 1,200 deaths. While the looting of supplies is a common report in these contexts, the primary massacre fact is corroborated by multiple sources.
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web search NEUTRAL — On October 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s security fence. Over 1,400 men, women, and children were brutally murdered in the ensuing attack.
https://www.hamas-massacre.net/
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web search NEUTRAL — The ministry said at least 45,028 people have been killed and 106,962 others have been wounded since the conflict began on 7 October 2023, when Hamas militants crossed into Israel and massacred about …
https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-more-than-45-000-people-have…
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web search NEUTRAL — Occupied West Bank. Killed: at least 905 people, including at least 181 children. Injured: more than 7,370 people. In Israel, officials revised the death toll from the October 7 attacks down from 1,40…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-ham…
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“Kristof’s column... accuses people from Israel of creating a vast “pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women, and even children” of Arabs.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of the name 'Nicholas' and unrelated business listings; no evidence regarding the content of Kristof's column was found in the provided search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek Νικόλαος, Nikolaos. It originally derived from a combination of two G…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas
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web search NEUTRAL — From our competitive product catalog, to our temperature-optimized warehouses, to our on-call customer support — Nicholas and Company is built to supply your kitchen efficiently and dependably.
https://www.nicholasandco.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 11, 2025 · Nicholas is most often used as a boy name. Learn more about the meaning, origin, and popularity of the name Nicholas.
https://www.parents.com/nicholas-name-meaning-origin-popular…
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“Kristof’s deranged piece relies heavily on a recent report by Euro-Med Monitor, a Swiss-based advocacy organization.”
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“Euro-Med’s founder and chairman, Ramy Abdu, has publicly declared his support for Hamas.”
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“Posting on social media, he [Ramy Abdu] called the monsters who raped and murdered Israelis “heroic knights who created for us pure glory,” promised to “remember their names well and teach the stories of their eternal heroism to . . . children and grandchildren.””
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“Kristof was a champion of Cambodian anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam... before allegations emerged that Mam had fabricated key parts of her life story, leading to her resignation from her foundation.”
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