LIES AND INCITEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL

LIES AND INCITEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL: TODAY’S BLOOD LIBEL

Incitement and blood libel against Israel in the media is nothing new, but it was profoundly distressing for us in Israel to see how cautious people were to believe the extent of what happened on October 7th, and yet how quick to believe the entirely false reports that Israel hit a hospital.

People seem almost eager to believe the lie that Israel is wantonly and deliberately killing children. This is known as “Blood libel”.

Throughout history, the Jewish people have suffered countless attacks based on total lies, demonizing them with outrageous and false accusations. Even though Jewish people were forbidden by God to eat anything with blood in it, the ridiculous story started circulating in the Middle Ages that Jewish people kidnapped Christian children, killed them, and used their blood to make matzah (unleavened bread for the feast of Passover).

It all started in the twelfth century in Norwich, England:

During medieval times two popes expressly declared such claims to have been fabricated, but nevertheless, these blood libels frequently led to mob violence and pogroms, and have occasionally led to the decimation of entire Jewish communities, according to the ADL.

FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL

While Jewish people have been long accused of killing Christian children in these elaborate fabrications, now Israel's enemies' favorite accusation is that they deliberately kill Palestinian children, when military experts have agreed that Israel makes every effort to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible.

At one point, Israel was accused of “executing” a young man named Ahmed Mansra “in cold blood” when in fact Ahmed was alive and well, being cared for in an Israeli hospital after having stabbed a 13 year old boy very seriously, and injuring another Jewish man. But by the time the truth comes to light, the media has moved on.

Another lie was that Israel deliberately opened dams in the south to flood Gaza with insanitary water, when in fact there are no dams in the south of Israel at all. It was just a lot of rain. But these lies are believed, and young Palestinians grow up reading books in school and watching TV shows about how evil the Jewish people are.

It's not hard to find things that Israel really is getting wrong, and the frustration of the Palestinian people against Israel is understandable, but there are also many outrageous lies told about the Jewish state which people unquestioningly believe.

The irony is that many times, the ones pointing the finger are guilty of the very things they are accusing Israel of – whether it's deliberately targeting civilians, endangering children, wanting to take over the whole of the Middle East, plotting for world domination, wishing to wipe out whole people groups, or desecrating holy places. These things are all true of Islamic terrorists, but not of Israel.

These lies are doing great damage, and spurring Palestinian young people on to become murderers and likely end up killed as a result. It is a tragic waste of young lives, and the total opposite of everything that God would have for them, which is to live alongside the Jewish people in peace.

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