Why Is Portland's Nicholas Kristof Against Israel's IDF With Lies?

 Nadene Goldfoor                                                

                 Nicholas Donabet Kristof, born April 27, 1959-age 67 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Born in Chicago, Kristof was raised in Yamhill, Oregon, the son of two professors at nearby Portland State University.

 Ladis K.D. Kristof  (born Władysław Krzysztofowicz; 1918-2010) taught Political Science and his wife Jane Kristof taught Art History at Portland State University. Journalist Nicholas Kristof's ancestors were an Armenian family (originally named Hachikian) who adopted the Polish surname after moving to what is now Ukraine.  Ladis joined the faculty in 1971 and officially retired in 1989, though he continued teaching occasional courses well into his 80s. Focus: Internationally renowned scholar known for his work in geopolitics, Russian affairs, and the nature of frontiers and boundaries. He was also a Fulbright Scholar and a co-founder of the Portland chapter of Amnesty International.  Jane taught at the university for decades before retiring as a professor emerita.   (This is my alma mater !)  

After graduating from Harvard University, where Nicholas wrote for The Harvard Crimson. Nicholas Kristof graduated from Harvard College in 1981. Although he finished his degree in just three years and completed the requirements with the Class of 1981, he later formally switched his class affiliation to 1982.

 He studied Arabic in Egypt for the 1983–84 academic year at the American University in Cairo. He has a number of honorary degrees.  It looks to me like after Harvard he went to Egypt.  No, Nicholas Kristof has never served in the military. He was never a soldier.  He has no idea what our IDF has gone through since 1967.  His Arab plan gave up all that is important to be an Israeli.  It was impossible.  He spent his early years on a family farm in rural Oregon, took a gap year with the Future Farmers of America, and pursued his education at Harvard and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before building his career in journalism.

 Kristof intermittently interned at The Oregonian. My family had a subscription to the Oregonian for years.   He joined the staff of The New York Times in 1984.

What changed our Portland Professor, Nicholas Kristof,  to be such an anti-Semite with his  opinion column, who accused IDF soldiers and Israeli prison guards of systematic and brutal sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees.  Many of these detainees were Security Prisoners or those convicted or suspected of planning or carrying out attacks against Israelis.  

This was in such bad taste as to raise anti-Semitism throughout the world higher if possible.  Good grief !!  He is a  winner of two Pulitzer Prizes,  a regular CNN contributor and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. I ask how could the New York Times have the balls to do such a thing as to print this!  Prime minister and foreign minister say Israel will sue the American newspaper over what they call one of the most horrifying lies ever published against the country.

This fact may not be commonly known:  On October 27, 2021, Kristof officially announced he would run for governor as a Democrat.   A day later, on October 28, 2021, the Times published an essay by Kristof. 

In July 2021, research was conducted to establish his potential as a candidate for governor of Oregon in the 2022 Oregon gubernatorial election. In October 2021, Kristof left The New York Times after forming a political action committee for his potential candidacy, saying in a statement,

"Precisely because I have a great job, outstanding editors and the best readers, I may be an idiot to leave. But you all know how much I love Oregon, and how much I've been seared by the suffering of old friends there. So I've reluctantly concluded that I should try not only to expose problems but also see if I can fix them directly."  On January 6, 2022, Shemia Fagan, the Oregon Secretary of State, announced that Kristof was ineligible to run as he did not meet the state's residency requirements. Kristof challenged the decision in court but on February 17, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld the Secretary of State's ruling.  Shemia herself was in hot water over money later on.  Oh, OREGON!  

Kristof published several articles criticizing the missed opportunity of the "grand bargain", a proposal by Iran to normalize relations with the United States, implement procedures to assure the US it will not develop nuclear weapons, deny any monetary support to Palestinian resistance groups until they agree to stop targeting civilians, support the Arab Peace Initiative, and ensure full transparency to assuage any US concerns. In return, the Iranians demanded abolition of sanctions and a US statement that Iran does not belong in the so-called "Axis of Evil". In his columns, Kristof revealed the documents detailing the "grand bargain" proposal and argued that it was killed by hardliners in the Bush administration.

According to Kristof, that was an "appalling mistake" since "the Iranian proposal was promising and certainly should have been followed up. It seems diplomatic mismanagement of the highest order for the Bush administration to have rejected that process out of hand, and now to be instead beating the drums of war and considering air strikes on Iranian nuclear sites." Kristof further believes that even if the grand bargain is not currently feasible, there is still an option for what he calls a "mini-bargain", a more modest proposal for normalizing American-Iranian relations. 

So we know what side of the coin Kristof is for.  It's no wonder he's Johnny on the Spot to swallow such lies against Israel.  He has been against our tiny country all along.  Which part of his world caused such an attitude?  

Resource:

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