Says canine technique was also used by Nazi war criminal
A columnist for the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, who is married to the vice chair of Harvard Board of Overseers, Sheryl WuDunn, publicly humiliated himself Friday afternoon on a Harvard Kennedy School stage for what was billed as the Malcolm H. Wiener Lecture in International Political Economy. It turned out to be not a lecture but a pathetic, apparently unprepared question-and-answer style performance by Kristof, who doubled down on his unverified fantasy that Israel is using a trained dog to rape Palestinian prisoners. Kristof said this had happened to “numerous” prisoners, though he also said he couldn’t say how many. He claimed he knew this based on reports from human rights groups that he said didn’t talk to each other but that he then conceded under questioning did talk to each other.
Kristof’s honorarium for the appearance was undisclosed. A Harvard Kennedy School spokesman didn’t respond to my query about it. But Harvard’s English and history departments paid a previous anti-Israel guest lecturer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, a $35,000 honorarium and $7,500 in travel expenses “for a 5 star hotel” to appear on campus on September 24, 2025, the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Kristof’s non-lecture “lecture” was Friday afternoon on the weekend of Yom Kippur.
I can’t quite do justice in text to the performance, characterized as it was by Kristof’s self-contradictions, mispronunciations, nervous laughter, and likening of Israel to the Nazis, an instance of Holocaust inversion that violates the definition of antisemitism that Harvard adopted as part of its settlement with Jewish students that a federal court said Harvard had failed. I encourage you to watch the brief video highlights embedded here. They are entertaining, though not so entertaining as to justify an honorarium anywhere on the Coates level, and less entertaining if you consider the effect they have in stoking Jew-hate. The editor of the Times, Joe Kahn, has distanced himself from the story, though in an Orwellian twist the Times publicity department later distanced itself from its own editor’s remarks, insisting that Kahn’s distancing from the story reflected merely the news department’s distancing itself from opinion-column-style coverage generally, not any specific weakness of the underlying dog-rape account, which Kristof attributed largely to anonymous or Hamas-linked sources.
The Kristof dog-rape allegation figures prominently in a shareholder lawsuit filed this week against the New York Times Company by lawyers including the attorney general of Florida and the National Jewish Advocacy Center. That suit includes an account by a “whistleblower” who worked at the Times from 2016 to 2026. Among the allegations in the suit is that when the whistleblower “complained of the widespread culture of anti-Israel bias,” a Times human resources representative responded, “If you don’t like our values here, maybe you should go find a place whose values align with yours.”
Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of Harvard Chabad responded in his own remarks at an annual “Shabbat 1000” event hours later: “Mr. Kristof, in your 2024 memoir, Chasing Hope, you write, ‘When I was growing up and other kids talked about their dads heroically battling the Nazis, I kept quiet. I didn’t want to admit that my father had actually fought for a year on the same side as the Nazis.’ You should stay quiet. If you need to speak and write, don’t side with the Nazis and Hamas terrorists. You should be on the side of the victims of terror. Not the terrorists.”
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