New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof triggered a media storm this week. Attention has largely focused on Kristof’s publication timing, questionable sources, and insufficient substantiation of extreme allegations. But it’s also worth identifying Kristof’s audience for this conspiracy-influenced piece.Kristof wrote for readers interested in equating democratic Israel and barbarous Hamas, especially right before Israel released a 300-page report detailing Hamas’s sexual and gender-based violence since Oct. 7, 2023. These readers welcomed Kristof’s claim that “a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children,” as it justifies their anti-Zionism.Kristof’s target audience accepted his citing of unreliable narrators,...
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