So Nick Christoff published an op-ed in the New York Times, alleging mass sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners.

A lot has already been said. I decided to say something else.

My first thought, Will and reading it was everyone else's thought.

It's horrifying. Their testimonies there of pain, of torture.

We know that the Israeli

prison service is often notoriously incompetent. There have been cases of Hamas prisoners

abusing each other. There have been famous cases of them abusing female Israeli guards.

We know prison systems are susceptible to this problem generally. There are 2,000 claims

against New York prisons by prisoners

who faced abuse there. Abuse of prisoners is not something that's impossible. It's something that's

virtually guaranteed in any prison system. And I was expecting to go into this op-ed and read about

a terrible reckoning with things that actually happened. October 7, by the way, sent thousands

of new detainees into the prisons. And in the early months, it also drafted into the prison system

as guards under-trained reservists, reservists who had seen Hamas videos gleefully documenting their

crimes. So I really did expect a hard-hitting story of real abuse that Israeli leaders had to take notice of. And then

I read it, and I came across the first obvious lie, and then the second obvious lie, and then a claim

so odd that maybe it was possible, but how exactly and how would they have kept it quiet? And then

another claim like it. And then one source who's a famed Hamas propagandist,

laundered as a reliable source, and then another one, if there's no doubt that abuse occurred,

and there is no doubt that abuse occurred, why is there so much propaganda, so much obvious

propaganda in Christoph's op-ed? I'm going to be honest here. I was relieved by the lies. I was, because it's agony

to read about Israeli criminality, and the lies let me cast doubt on the whole thing. There's an

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