“GENOCIDE” DEBUNKED

THE LIE IS SO EGREGIOUS, AND THE CONSEQUENCES SO POTENTIALLY FATAL ON A MASSIVE SCALE, A MORAL RECKONING IS REQUIRED.

Operative word: “Story.”

A new study by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies thoroughly assesses the allegations of genocide against Israel, as well as associated assertions of starvation, “indiscriminate bombing,” deliberate killing and other charges thrown at Israel by NGOs and foreign officials in recent months.

Titled, “Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025,” the report is a tour de force.

The Begin-Sadat Center, or BESA Center, is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting research on Middle Eastern and global strategic affairs, particularly as they relate to the national security and foreign policy of Israel and regional peace and stability.

Let me summarize the report — and then please do stick around to the end for my incandescent rage at the depraved “humanitarians” who deceitfully wave this gravest indictment in human history in ways that rub salt in the intergenerational trauma of Jewish people and endanger the lives of millions today and in the future by crying wolf.

Here’s a tight summary of the BESA report:

Starvation claims: (to March 2, 2025): BESA finds this assertion to be built on erroneous echo-chamber data and uncorrected errors. The report states that current food aid shipments exceed prewar averages, meeting or exceeding prewar caloric needs.

Local food production: Widespread reports overstated Gaza’s prewar domestic food production. The authors estimate prewar local output at ≲12% of caloric intake (vs. far higher claims), with cereals and oils largely imported via UNRWA and the World Food Program.

Urban warfare context and human shields: Many critiques omit the Hamas tactics of embedding forces in civilian areas and tunnels. Any assessment of IDF actions must account for reciprocal combat conditions and International Humanitarian Law’s feasible-precautions (not zero-risk) standard.

Deliberate killing of civilians: The authors say there is simply no evidence of a systematic IDF policy to massacre civilians. Individual violations may have occurred and must be investigated, but allegations of genocide or massacres lack corroborating forensic patterns seen in conflicts that did feature such crimes.

Indiscriminate bombing and proportionality: They argue many case studies cited by NGOs and media omit key operational context and Hamas co-location. International Humanitarian Law does not require choosing less effective weapons if that would forfeit military advantage, only feasible precautions to limit civilian harm.

Casualty data quality: The (Hamas-run) Gaza Health Ministry figures are criticized for manipulation and politicization. The report sketches alternate distributions and stresses the difficulty of distinguishing civilians from combatants in closed, controlled environments.

Systemic problems with intermediaries: UN agencies, NGOs and some media are said to rely on unverified statements, and to correct errors retroactively and quietly, and at times elevate sources aligned with Hamas narratives. Comparative cases (for example: Iraq sanctions era; Jenin 2002; Lebanon 2006) are used to show recurring methodological failures.

Bottom line: BESA’s review concludes that the Gaza “genocide” charge is factually unsubstantiated — the cited starvation, massacre and indiscriminate-bombing claims rest on faulty data and do not demonstrate the requisite intent for genocide. The authors emphasize the war’s terrible human toll while insisting policy and ethics debates be grounded in corrected facts.

Now …

My throat is dry and my fingers are bleeding from repeatedly contesting the lies of “genocide.” The BESA study provides the evidentiary support for my wailings.

Let me turn my attention away from defending Israel against these bloody defamations and turn the tables as they deserve to be.

Using “genocide” as a political slogan is probably the most immoral behavior a so-called “humanitarian” activist could engage in. To casually throw this term around in any context is wicked.

To degrade the most horrific crime known to humankind to the reductive sensationalizing of placards, slogans and jingles is demagoguery of the worst order.

The perpetrators of this barbarism are the very people who imagine themselves the defenders of humanity. And yet it is hard to imagine human beings sinking any lower.

To wield the word “genocide” as a political slogan is not only dishonest — it is corrosive to the very foundations of humanitarian values and the duty to protect. What could be more dangerous? What could more thoroughly poison our discourse? In a time when we struggle with misinformation and disinformation, the very people who proclaim themselves the arbiters of righteousness and truth disseminate the most corrupt example conceivable of fallacious slander.

But to weaponize that word against the Jewish people — against the descendants of those who were herded into gas chambers, who were burned alive, starved, beaten, and worked to death, the very people whose 20th-century experience required the word “genocide” to be invented— is to flush morality itself down the toilet. It is not justice. It is not compassion. It is demagoguery of the lowest, ugliest order.

To reduce the most horrific crime in human history to the stuff of placards and chants, to campaign slogans and hashtags — this is our civilization’s Mariana moment, a previously unimagined ultra-nadir of human transgression. And yet, from this dank abyss, the perpetrators congratulate themselves for being the guardians of decency.

Those who hurl the accusation of genocide against Israel are not advancing human rights. They are demolishing them. They are not defending the victims of oppression. They are spitting on the graves of the six million and emptying the word “genocide” of its meaning. That obscenity is not solidarity. It is the bankruptcy of conscience.

Even leaving aside the moral atrocities it perpetrates on Jews and Israelis, it endangers the lives of millions today (by ignoring actual genocides taking place in the world) and tomorrow (by debasing the sanctity and severity of the term, thereby reducing the humanitarian response in future because crying wolf today has forever degraded the meaning of the term).

The projection happening here is another moral atrocity. The intended victims of genocide are accused of perpetrating one. This is one of our era’s most abhorrent inversions.

As “Kosher Cockney” posted on Substack the other day: “If Palestinians have the ability to stay alive by simply not committing acts of terror against Israelis, then they are not facing a genocide. If Israelis have the ability to stay alive only because of tremendous defence systems, then they are facing a genocide.”

Let us be absolutely clear: there is no genocide in Gaza. There is war, there is tragedy, there is suffering — yes. But there is no systematic campaign to exterminate a people, no industrial slaughter, no intent to annihilate. To insist otherwise is not fact, not evidence, not law. It is a lie — an obscene, calculated lie.

And the people perpetrating it, when this dust settles and the first draft of this history is written, must be held to moral account. They must be cancelled. The organizations that perpetuated this slander should be defunded and disbanded. The NGOs that fundraised on the backs of an invented “genocide” should have their charitable status revoked by governments. A massive moral reckoning must take place. Not just to correct the dissipated atrocities perpetrated against Israel. But because the millions of potential victims of current and future genocides have had their lives endangered, if not already destroyed, by the degeneration of this solemn term.

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