Prompted by a swell in antisemitic incidents in Europe back in 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) drafted a definition of antisemitism to help countries, institutions, and organizations recognize it when it was happening in order to respond quicker to, monitor better...
After the brutal attack on Israel on October 7, lies about Israel that were already circulating before the war intensified, and as the battle continued, new ones emerged. One is that Israel is using famine as a weapon of war. But are people in Gaza suffering from intentional starvation, and if...
Wedged between Egypt, Israel, and the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza has been described as an “open-air prison” and the “world’s largest concentration camp.” Those touting this view say that since 2005, when Israel withdrew its people and military forces from Gaza, Palestinians living there have been...
Palestinians describe Israel as an “occupier,” which places the Israel-Palestinian conflict in the context of an oppressor and the oppressed. Palestinian violence is therefore overlooked if not condoned as the legitimate reaction of a victim of oppression. This narrative portrays Hamas—the...
Israel’s critics and enemies often refer to Zionism as “settler colonialism.” This charge intensified after Hamas broke an existing ceasefire agreement, invaded southern Israel, and brutally murdered more than 1,200 people on October 7, prompting Israel’s declaration of war. Within weeks, rather...
Even a casual observer of history cannot help but notice the astounding relationship that has developed between Jews and Christians over the last 80 years. None of this would have happened without the birth of the modern State of Israel in 1948. Since then, however, other pivotal moments have...
The world’s response to Israel’s war with Hamas that began on October 7 is nothing short of a travesty. Not only has Israel had to defend its defensive war against those who carried out the barbaric attack against Israeli civilians and threatened to repeat it, but it has faced a wave of double...
Since becoming a state in 1948, Israel’s enemies have continually attempted to defeat and discredit the Jewish State using any tactics that stick. For example, they’ve tried to weaken Israel economically with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and diplomatically with the 1975...
The “big lie” is an expression Adolf Hitler coined to describe his technique of telling a lie so colossal that no one would ever suspect it was false. He first described this concept in his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf, which outlined his plans for ruling Germany. He surmised most...
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An antisemitic trope is a myth or sensational report, misrepresentation, or lie defamatory toward Judaism or the Jewish people as an ethnic or religious group. Some tropes date back to the birth of Christianity, like the belief that Jews are collectively...