in this curious loathing for Israel. The idea that the Jewish nation is inherently genocidal, that it targets children for ‘bloodletting’, resuscitates the medieval calumny that treated the Jews as a child-sacrificing race.
When the fog of war clears, we’ll need a reckoning with how the activist class and the media talked about this conflict. Why they so rarely mentioned the deaths of Hamas militants. Why they depicted a war on an army of anti-Semites as a slaughter of civilians. Why they engaged in the shameful moral inversion of calling Israel’s fightback against genocidal terrorists a ‘genocide’. Too many have made themselves the Lord Haw-Haws of Hamas, foolishly spreading its lies about the war and its libels against the Jewish state.
The BBC still reports every communication on casualties from Hamas as front page news.
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