Israel announced on Thursday that it would sue The New York Times over an opinion piece published this week that accused Israeli prison guards of using dogs to sexually assault Palestinian detainees.
The lawsuit announcement came directly from Israel’s Foreign Ministry after days of outrage surrounding acolumnby New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof.
“Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times,” the ministry said Thursday morning.
Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign…
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA)May 14, 2026
Israeli officials had earlier likened the report to a “blood libel” aimed at demonizing the Jewish state during its ongoing war against terror groups.
Kristof’s May 11 opinion piece, titled “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” included allegations that Israeli prison guards used dogs to rape terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.
According to the report, Israeli guards allegedly restrained detainees before calling on dogs to penetrate them.
The unfounded claim was made by an anonymous source.
No independent evidence supported the allegations made in Kristof’s piece.
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