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<\/a>Does it matter that they\u2019re lying about Israel?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nJonathan S. Tobin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A curious thing happened<\/a> last week in Israel. More than 100 military officers from 20 countries attended an international conference hosted by the Israel Defense Forces. Among them were representatives from countries that had falsely accused the Jewish state of committing war crimes, deliberate starvation or even genocide in Gaza during the war with Hamas that followed the Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n While there, they visited the sites of the Oct. 7 massacres and attended briefings about the challenges presented by urban warfare as well as discussions of how the IDF used AI, drones, artillery and medical services for the wounded.<\/span><\/p>\n Some nations, like the United Kingdom<\/a>, whose left-wing government continues in its vitriolic demonization of the Jewish state and has passively accepted the growing mainstreaming of antisemitism in British society, boycotted the event. But others who were just as vociferous in backing up the claims that what Israel had done in Gaza was uniquely awful, such as France and Canada, showed up alongside representatives from friendlier countries like the United States, the Czech Republic and Hungary.<\/span><\/p>\n They were accompanied by officers from Germany, Finland, India, Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Austria, Estonia, Japan, Morocco, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. Many have either joined in the international community\u2019s Israel-bashing, recognized \u201cPalestine\u201d as an independent, albeit still non-existent, country or chose not to stand with Israel during the past two years as it fought for its life against genocidal Islamist terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n That Israel has much to teach the world about the use of high-tech and intelligence in warfare, added to its expertise in avoiding civilian casualties and how to deal with emergencies, is nothing new. The Israelis have been sharing their knowledge in these and other topics with other nations for decades. So, in that sense, the military conference wasn\u2019t all that newsworthy.<\/span><\/p>\n But it matters because it shows that many of those countries that tacitly or openly endorsed the blood libels against Israel during the course of the war that, at least temporarily, concluded with the ceasefire-hostage release deal brokered by the United States in October, don\u2019t really believe the accusations. If they did, they wouldn\u2019t have been there or subsequently, members of their delegations would have spoken about alleged links between Israeli military tactics and the claims of mass murder.<\/span><\/p>\n Except they didn\u2019t. Because those claims don\u2019t exist.<\/span><\/p>\n As military experts, like British Col. Richard <\/a>Kemp and U.S. urban warfare researcher John Spencer have pointed out, the evidence for \u201cgenocide,\u201d famine or indiscriminate killings of civilians doesn\u2019t exist because none of it happened. Israel\u2019s army is, in fact, the most moral in the world, with a record in combat with respect to civilian casualties that is superior to that of any other nation.<\/span><\/p>\n Israel fought a war in Gaza against a tenacious enemy that had attacked across the border between the Jewish state and the Hamas state (in all but name), committing the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas deliberately used civilians as human shields and built its fortifications in and around as well as under schools, hospitals and dwellings where ordinary Palestinian Arabs lived. Yet the IDF still fought under rules of engagement that were not only highly restrictive and humane, but also stand in stark contrast to the orgy of murder, rape, torture, kidnapping and wanton destruction that the Palestinians engaged in when they attacked Jewish communities in southern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n As happens in war, a great many Gazans died during the subsequent fighting, others were wounded, and everyone in the area suffered in one way or another. Claims of Palestinian civilian casualties were vastly exaggerated by Hamas propagandists, but despite claims to the contrary, the ratio between civilian and Hamas combatant deaths in Gaza (which Israel-bashers never mention) was roughly one to one. That\u2019s an unprecedentedly low number in the history of urban warfare. And it\u2019s far lower than the number of civilians killed in Iraq by U.S. and allied forces during that Mideast war earlier this century or by Allied armies during World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n We can point out that the claims of famine and starvation so prevalent during the past summer simply evaporated<\/a> once the fighting stopped\u2014and not because of any increase in the supply of food in Gaza. Rather, it\u2019s because, thanks to the ceasefire, Hamas is back in firm control of much of the area, and there is no longer any propaganda value in making false claims about how people are faring under its rule.<\/span><\/p>\n Nevertheless, the narrative about \u201cgenocide\u201d and famine continues to be repeated by media outlets like The New York Times<\/em>, commentators like former Fox News<\/em> host Tucker Carlson and New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who did so live on television during his meeting last week with President Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n To his discredit, the president did not contradict Mamdani. But he\u2019s not alone in letting lies like that go unanswered. Much like the false claims that democratic Israel is an \u201capartheid\u201d state are routinely mouthed by the ignorant, so, too, the lies about genocide have simply become part of the language of contemporary discourse, despite being disconnected from the facts. The lies about Israel blend into Mamdani\u2019s left-wing version of antisemitism. They do the same for Carlson\u2019s<\/a> right-wing narratives about Zionism being an enemy of Western civilization. That shows that he has gone beyond platforming radical antisemites like the neo-Nazi \u201cgroyper\u201d Nick Fuentes to mimicking their hatred.<\/span><\/p>\n In the face of the calumnies spewed by officeholders like Mamdani and populist hate-mongers like Carlson, it often seems like the facts don\u2019t matter.<\/span><\/p>\n Inconvenient information that debunks the lies about genocide doesn\u2019t matter to ideologies like the myths about race, intersectionality and settler-colonialism in which Jews and Israelis are falsely depicted as \u201cwhite\u201d oppressors, no matter what they do, and Palestinians are always considered oppressed victims. These toxic ideas are the guiding principles of Mamdani\u2019s public career in much the same way that Carlson\u2019s and Fuentes\u2019s blend of religious-based hate has led them to their obsessive hatred for Israel and the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n Facts and truth are of no use in debating products of the bizarre red-green alliance of Marxism and Islamism that produced Mamdani. The same is true for his right-wing counterparts in spewing hate.<\/span><\/p>\n No one is going to persuade Mamdani or Carlson that their information\u2014if indeed their beliefs are actually based on anything other than their ideological obsessions\u2014about Israel is incorrect. Nor will we do so for those chanting for Jewish genocide (\u201cFrom the river to the sea\u201d) and terrorism against Jews everywhere (\u201cGlobalize the intifada\u201d), all the while calling the intended victims of these atrocities \u201cNazis.\u201d Citing objective facts about the war or the reality of life in democratic Israel or a Palestinian society dominated by Islamist doctrines that are little different from a death cult will simply fall on deaf ears.<\/span><\/p>\n But something that many friends of Israel can sometimes forget amid the deluge of antisemitic invective hurled at them and their cause is that most Americans aren\u2019t listening to either Mamdani or Carlson, or agreeing with those who refuse to be judgmental <\/a>about their hate. The vast majority of people in the United States remain distrustful of political extremists and are, when presented with facts, persuadable.<\/span><\/p>\n The false charges that are hurled at Israel hurt, especially when, thanks to a biased media, they migrate from the fever swamps of the far left and right to mainstream public discourse. When magnified by the algorithms of social-media platforms like TikTok, they can metastasize into a growing chorus of hate echoed by a generation that relies on such untrustworthy sources for their information about the world. And that is another reason why those outlets, like JNS, that do tell the truth about the conflict, are more important than ever. <\/span><\/p>\n Yet as we saw with last week\u2019s conference in Israel, the vast distance between left-wing or right-wing antisemitic canards rooted in Hamas propaganda and the truth is sometimes very easy to discern.<\/span><\/p>\n As infuriating as it can be to have to witness the way blood libels about \u201cgenocide\u201d have become commonplace, those falsehoods aren\u2019t strong enough to demolish the reality of Israel. The nation is not perfect, nor are all of its people. But the Jewish state survived the horrors of Oct. 7 and then went on to defeat its Iranian, Hezbollah and Hamas foes, and did so while still preserving its standards and humanity. Those of us who care about it and the truth know who is lying and who is not. We should be equally certain that the Israel Mamdani and Carlson and their various followers wish to destroy will still be standing long after its opponents have passed from the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Does it matter that they\u2019re lying about Israel? Jonathan S. Tobin The blood libels against Israel keep being repeated, even as evidence that the charges of genocide and starvation were untrue continues to pile up. Palestinians shop at a market in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 21, 2025. 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\nThe blood libels against Israel keep being repeated, even as evidence that the charges of genocide and starvation were untrue continues to pile up.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Palestinians shop at a market in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 21, 2025. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib\/Flash90.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nThey don\u2019t really believe the lies<\/strong><\/h4>\n
The \u2018genocide\u2019 narrative<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Not everyone is listening to the hate-mongers<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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<\/span>Jonathan S. Tobin<\/strong> is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS \u201cThink Twice\u201d podcast, both the weekly video program and the \u201cJonathan Tobin Daily\u201d program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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