{"id":577936,"date":"2026-08-07T21:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577936\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:28:20","slug":"israels-new-york-consul-cancels-ny-times-subscription-over-false-blood-libels-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577936\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s New York consul cancels \u2018NY Times\u2019 subscription over \u2018false blood libels\u2019 &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (Aug. 7, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Ofir Akunis, Israel\u2019s consul general in New York, ordered the Israeli Consulate to cancel its subscription to The New York Times on Friday, accusing the newspaper of publishing \u201cfalse blood libels\u201d against the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have ordered the Israeli Consulate in New York to cancel its subscription to The New York Times, a newspaper that consistently demonizes and delegitimizes the Jewish State,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper has faced heightened criticism from Jewish groups and Israeli officials in recent months over its coverage of the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published an <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/11\/opinion\/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">opinion piece<\/a> on May 11 titled \u201cThe Silence that Meets the Rape of Palestinians,\u201d in which he accused Israeli guards of sexually assaulting Palestinian prisoners. The column also included allegations that Israeli guards trained dogs to rape male prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry accused the newspaper of publishing \u201cone of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press,\u201d adding that the column was part of what it described as a coordinated anti-Israel campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar announced that Israel would initiate legal action against the Times over the column, calling its allegations \u201cone of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The controversy also prompted Jewish leaders to call for a boycott of the paper after a spokesman publicly rejected rumors that editors would retract Kristof\u2019s column.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New York Times is a newspaper that consistently publishes false blood libels against the State of Israel, often based on \u2018anonymous\u2019 sources,\u201d Akunis stated. \u201cWhen citing named sources, the paper conveniently turns to anti-Israel activists, and even Hamas terrorists who seek Israel\u2019s destruction, to reinforce the narrative they want to promote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His office did not clarify why the subscription was canceled this month as opposed to back in May, when the controversial Kristof op-ed was published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Aug. 7, 2026 \/ JNS) Ofir Akunis, Israel\u2019s consul general in New York, ordered the Israeli Consulate to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-577936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}