This is confusing ... very, very confusing ...
So, which is it?
How can the American people know what to believe anymore? They're supposed to be able to turn to the New York Times and other legacy newspapers for impartial facts. Although that aspirational view was never as true as many of us supposed it to be, it's become scandalously untrue today. The Times this week played host to one of the most astonishing examples of journalistic malpractice in recent memory. It was perpetrated by Nicholas Kristof " a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned progressive columnist and aspiring Democratic politician. Hiding under the cloak of the Times' opinion section, Kristof ran a report alleging shocking and lurid claims of widespread, systemic sexual assault by Israeli prison guards against Palestinians. This would be horrifying if true, except we have little reason to believe it is
Nancy Jacobson os a fairly a predictable source for the piece.
A bipartisan centrist organization led by the wife of Mark Penn, the CEO of Stagwell Group that was recently a paid foreign agent for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has announced plans to launch a working group focused on strengthening U.S. ties in the Middle East, including with Israel.
Nancy Jacobson, the founder and CEO of No Labels, announced the initiative last week in a speech at the Jerusalem Post Miami Summit, which she co-chaired alongside Penn.
The announcement comes on the heels of a months-long period when Penn's firm and its subsidiaries conducted public relations, messaging, and research work on behalf of the Israeli government, including work that required registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Penn has said he has no formal role in No Labels, which he describes as his wife's independent project, though he remains the president of a nonprofit called The New Center, which was formerly known as the No Labels Foundation and functioned as No Labels' education arm.
From: "No Labels' Israel Push Follows Foreign Agent Work by Spouse's Firm" by Donald Shaw, Jan 20, 2026 " readsludge.com
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