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America’s Newspaper of Rectum Not Biggest Basher of Jewish Homeland This Week

#1322 May 17, 2026

Yes, the New York Times’ shocking “Israel dog-rapists” article, timed by the NYT to blunt Israelis’ shocking report on the magnitude of Hamas’ sexual violence in its Oct. 7 invasion, is a literal kick in us Jews’ groin.  But that’s not the mainstream media’s most devastating kick at us this week. Losing sight of that exacerbates America’s Newspaper of Rectum’s intended impact. 

America’s Newspaper of Rectum Not Biggest Basher of Jewish Homeland This Week

If I were to ask a hundred of You-Who-Put-Up-With-Me-Weekly

“Which media misleader of the Arab-Israeli conflict bashed our Jewish people’s homeland most deeply and dangerously this week?”

 a hundred of you’d likely respond

“Why, of course the New York Times, with its timed-to-blunt Israel’s release of its Hamas’ Oct. 7 sexual depravity report, of an NYT article claiming that Israel, inter alia, trained dogs to sexually assault Palestinian Arab prisoners.”

But, despicable as that America’s Newspaper of Rectum piece was, the most devastatingly dangerous mainstream media smearing of our Jewish people’s homeland this week is its annual “Nakba” reporting.

Here, for example, is the Associated Press, under “World News,” May 15, 2026, Palestinians in Gaza Mark Anniversary of 1948 Mass Expulsion and Say Today’s Catastrophe is Worse.

“What was the Nakba?” the AP asks in this article, answering

“For Palestinians, the Nakba meant the loss of most of their homeland.  Some 80% of the Palestinians who lived in the area that became Israel were driven from their homes by forces of the nascent state before and during the war.  The fighting began when Arab armies attacked following Israel’s establishment as a home for Jews in the wake of the Holocaust. Palestinians who remained behind hold Israeli citizenship.

“After the war, Israel refused to allow Palestinian refugees to return to ensure a Jewish majority within its borders.  Palestinians became a seemingly permanent refugee community that now numbers some 6 million, with most living in refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Gaza….”

This wasn’t objective “World News” reporting, AP.  It was an utterly one-sided anti-Jewish homeland screed more worthy of “AP” initials of Arab Propaganda. 

AP: “The fighting began when Arab armies attacked….”  Not exactly, AP. The Arab armies attacked when Israel declared independence only on May 14, 1948. (Actually, says Google AI, Gush Etzion was “destroyed by the Arab Legion” the day before “on May 13, 1948.”)  The fighting actually began on November 30, 1947, the day after the UN General Assembly adopted its resolution to partition western Palestine between its Arabs and Jews, which the Jews accepted and Arabs rejected, with Palestinian Arabs murdering Jewish civilians.

AP: “… Israel’s establishment as a home for Jews in the wake of the Holocaust.”  No, AP, Israel didn’t become “established as a home for Jews in the wake of the Holocaust,” as though it had not been before that, but three thousand years earlier.  Yes, the Romans destroyed Jewish sovereignty and Jewish Temples that had successively stood for a millennium, but they didn’t exile the Jews, as evidenced by Roman-Byzantine centuries’ synagogues, the Mishna and Palestinian Talmud, Roman recognition of the Patriarch as head of homeland Jews until the fifth century, and 20,000+ homeland Jews siding with the 614 CE Persian invaders against the hated Byzantines’ rule.  Jews stayed, long a minority, throughout continuous (mostly non-Arab) foreign empire rule, writing, historian Parkes put it, today’s Israelis’ “real title deeds.”  Post-WWI, the later UN-endorsed League of Nations’ Palestine Mandate recognized Jews’ continuous connection with Palestine in mandating it as “the Jewish national home.” In declaring independence in 1948 today’s Israel became the land of Israel’s next native state after Roman-destroyed Jewish Judaea.

AP: “… Palestinians who lived in the area that became Israel were driven from their homes….”  Some were, in the context of their partition-rejecting fighting against Palestinian Jews.  But unmentioned by the AP, the invading Arab nations encouraged Arabs to temporarily get out of their way, promising return to take Jewish loot after the Jews had been “driven into the sea.”  And not only did the AP not mention that the Palestinian Arabs were participants in the fighting, it didn’t mention that the Jews evicted in the war’s wake from Arab lands were not.

AP: “For Palestinians, the Nakba meant the loss of most of their homeland.” Actually, AP, it didn’t.  That League of Nations Palestine Mandate’s Jewish national home initially included all of Palestine – east as well as west of the Jordan.  It gave the Mandate’s trustee, Britain, authority to exclude from the Jewish national home the three-quarters of Palestine east of the River, which Britain with alacrity did.  Palestinian Arabs are the majority population of judenrein Jordan, occupying that three-quarters of Mandated Palestine east of the River.” Yes, Palestinian Arabs don’t rule “the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,” but that’s as much their homeland as western Palestine that your precious “Palestinians,” AP, have never ever ruled either.

Nor, AP, was western Palestine homogeneously Palestinian Arabs’ homeland.  Despite centuries of foreign rulers’ massacres of homeland Jews, foreign rulers’ barring Jewish immigration to Palestine, and Europeans’ periodic prohibition of “transport of Jews to the East,” western Palestine’s 1947 population, per the British themselves, was 1.2 million Arabs [that’s all] and 600,000 Jews. (Jewish figures are c. a million Arabs and 650,000 Jews).  And the UN’s 1947 partition resolution referenced Arabs and Jews as “the two Palestinian peoples.”

AP: “After the war, Israel refused to allow Palestinian refugees to return….” Actually, AP, the war didn’t end. In the wake of UN-imposed ceasefire (the Jews by then were winning), Israel and the Arab states signed ceasefire agreements, which never matured into war-ending peace treaties. 

And, btw, AP, in the wake of that 1947-1949 fighting, more indigenously Mizrahi (Middle-eastern, North African) Jews were displaced from vast Arab and other Muslim lands than Arabs left tiny Israel.  And they’re today Israel’s largest ethnic stream.  

AP: “Palestinians became a seemingly permanent refugee community that now numbers some 6 million ….”  Except under a UN definition of “refugees” as including descendants, applicable only to Palestinian Arabs of all the world’s refugees, the number of surviving real 1948 Arab refugees is very much smaller than the AP-unmentioned Israel-absorbed Jewish refugees from Arab and other Muslim lands, who’ve had descendants too.   

AP: “the Israeli-occupied West Bank”  Balanced reporting, AP, would have included our side that Judea & Samaria is neither “Israeli-occupied” nor “West Bank.”  For 3,000 years it was called by its Hebrew-origin names “Judea and Samaria,” including by the UN itself in its 1947 partition resolution.  “West Bank” was coined by invader [Trans-]Jordan in 1950 for the same reason the Romans had renamed conquered Judaea as “Palestine” [in memory of the long-gone Philistines, not Arafat’s ancestors].  The media’s frequent misdescribing “Judea and Samaria” as “the biblical name of the West Bank” is both one-sided and historically wrong.

Equally one-sided is the AP’s “Israeli-occupied.”  By us, it’s not “occupied,” it’s not “disputed,” it’s Ours.  Our adversaries don’t call it disputed, they call it “Occupied Palestinian Territory.” The AP sides with them in calling Judea-Samaria the “Israeli-occupied West Bank.” 

Bottom Line

Yes, the New York Times’ Israeli dog-rapists article is despicable and all of us [even “two-staters” among us] should regard America’s Newspaper of Rectum accordingly.  But the AP et ilk purveying Arab Nakba propaganda one-sidedly delegitimizes our Jewish people’s homeland’s very legitimacy in the minds of the world’s publics.  It’s incumbent upon us, all of us, to fight it.