In medieval Europe, Jew-hating Christians unfold the lie that Jews kidnapped Christian kids, slaughtered them, and used their blood to bake matzos for Passover. This lie is named the “blood libel,” maybe the best libel in historical past. For hundreds of years, Jews have been tortured and killed, typically by burning alive, for blood libels.
The blood libel was notably heinous in mild of two information: the Jews first prohibited human sacrifice by means of their Bibles; And one of many first legal guidelines within the Hebrew Bible is the prohibition towards consuming blood.
For hundreds of years, the Jews needed to face the truth that throughout them, throughout Europe, big numbers of individuals believed an enormous lie about them. Jews face the identical factor right this moment. We at the moment are residing by means of the second blood libel: the declare that the Jewish state is committing genocide. However, not like blood libel, this libel shouldn’t be the product of Christians; It’s the product of Muslims and leftists. The individuals who dedicated the best genocide in recorded historical past — the Holocaust — at the moment are accused of that crime.
In line with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 1948, there have been 1,380,000 Palestinians in Israel and the Better Palestine Space, and by 2022, there have been 7 million. In different phrases, there at the moment are 5 occasions extra Palestinians within the Palestinian territories and in Israel than there have been in 1948.
Now, I’ve mentioned all my life, reality is a liberal worth and it is a conservative worth, nevertheless it’s by no means been a leftist worth. But, given these statistics, even the left can be pressured to confess that Israel had not the slightest inclination to commit genocide towards the Palestinians. These focused for genocide don’t enhance their numbers — with out the issue of 5.
What the left and their Muslim allies declare is that since October 7, Israel has in all probability modified its thoughts and determined to commit genocide towards Palestinians (although, apparently, solely in Gaza, not the West Financial institution).
Listed below are some information that designate why the accusation of “Israeli genocide” was as false because the blood libel:
First, as Israeli officers have repeatedly mentioned, if Hamas releases hostages and surrenders, Israel will cease bombing Gaza. This was exactly the situation that the US and its allies provided to Japan and Germany: unconditional give up, and a right away cessation of bombing of Japanese and German cities.
Second, World Struggle II brings us additional proof that Israeli genocide allegations are false. Nobody has ever accused America or Britain of committing genocide towards Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. Even those that now discover the Allied bombing of Dresden and different German cities morally flawed don’t accuse the US or Britain of committing genocide. So why so many complaints towards Israel?
Third, throughout World Struggle II, it was virtually universally understood that each German demise by the Allies was brought on by the Nazi regime, and each Japanese demise was brought on by the Japanese fascist regime. If there had been no Nazi invasion of European international locations and no Japanese bombing of the US and numerous Asian international locations, there would have been no World Struggle II and subsequently no bombing of German and Japanese cities. Likewise, with out Hamas and with out October 7, the Israeli bombardment of Gaza wouldn’t have occurred. Each Palestinian demise in Gaza is a results of the actions of Hamas.
Fourth, Hamas is accountable for each lifeless Gazan for an additional cause: Hamas makes use of Gazan civilians as human shields.
Fifth, regardless of many large-scale genocides world wide, solely Israel is broadly accused of genocide.
For the reason that starting of this century, the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has killed greater than 60,000 Christians in Nigeria. Not solely has there been no protest on the left, few folks know, not to mention give it some thought. The left does not care as a result of the perpetrators have been Islamists — their allies within the combat towards the West — and blacks. The left solely cares about lifeless blacks, whether or not in America or Africa, when they’re killed by whites.
From 2003-2008, in Sudan’s Darfur, Arab governments and Arab paramilitary teams killed greater than 300,000 civilians and created practically 2.7 million refugees. Once more, since blacks are being killed by Muslims, the left has little interest in their deaths.
One other instance: In line with the BBC, between 700,000 and 800,000 civilians have been killed within the preventing between the Ethiopian authorities and Tigray province up to now few years. Nearly no person is aware of or cares: it is blacks killing blacks, in any case.
Sixth, the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) sharply revised downwards its statistics on little one deaths within the Gaza battle. On Could 6, it reported greater than 14,500 deaths; Two days later, it reported 7,797. OCHA revised the demise toll for ladies from over 9,500 to 4,959. In different phrases, all of the mainstream Western media reported as true the lies that Hamas claimed concerning the variety of Gazan girls and youngsters killed by Israeli bombs. (Nevertheless, even factually false statistics do not come near proving genocide allegations.)
Even when the media pays consideration to those new numbers of alleged “genocide,” it will not finish a single anti-Israel protest or cease an Israel-hater from accusing Israel of genocide. For the reason that accusation was by no means based mostly on reality, the reality won’t ever finish.
The one genocide within the Israeli-Palestinian battle is that Hamas and Iran need to commit crimes towards the Jews of Israel.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His commentary on Numbers, the fourth quantity of “The Rational Bible,” his five-volume commentary on the primary 5 books of the Bible, might be printed in November 2024 and is now obtainable for presale on Amazon. He’s the co-founder of Prager College and might be contacted at dennisprager.com.
