The genocide that isn’t: How Hamas turned lies into global outrage



Extraordinarily effective Hamas propaganda has delegitimized Israel’s right of self-defense by confirming for a world that scorns Israel that its demon is engaged in genocide. It is not, but the same cannot be said of Hamas — the aggressor that has largely avoided that opprobrium.

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 5.5 million Palestinians live in the Palestinian territories, principally the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The bureau estimates that in the last 12 months, Gaza’s population declined by 15,423 to 2,114,201. Meanwhile, “Palestine’s” total population grew by 1.17% in 2024 and is projected to grow by another 1.75% in 2025. According to the bureau, the principal factors in Gaza’s population decline were emigration, war casualties, and a declining birth rate.

If leftists prevent Israel from fighting an aggressor who has pledged to destroy it, targets civilians, and takes and murders hostages, who is complicit in genocide?

Though the Gaza Ministry of Health’s war casualty reports are statistically implausible and quietly rejected by the United Nations, the world’s media uncritically repeat the lies. Most recently, the media disseminated the ministry’s claim that war deaths exceed 60,000, reducing Gaza’s population by 10%. The actual comparison was to “projected growth”; 60,000 represents a 2.6% decline.

Peddling lies

Many outlets presented the ministry’s disinformation and malinformation as their objective reporting. For example, PBS explained:

The ministry is staffed by medical professionals. The United Nations and other independent experts view its figures as the most reliable count of casualties. … Israel’s offensive has destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced around 90% of the population and caused a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, with experts warning of famine.

The report added:

Israel’s offensive and its blockade have also gutted Gaza’s health system, with several hospitals having shut down and others only partially functioning as they receive waves of war-wounded.

Jaundiced by radical ideologies and anti-Semitism, and empowered by Hamas’ misdirection, at least 38 countries, the European Union’s second-ranking official, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, 14 members of Congress, and many others accuse Israel of genocide.

If Goebbels had Hamas propagandists on his side, we might all be shouting “Heil Hitler!”

In November, a U.N. special committee found Israel’s operations in Gaza “consistent” with genocide, including its alleged use of “starvation as weapon of war.” In July, the U.N. dishonestly announced that Gaza met two of the three criteria for famine. To reach that conclusion, the U.N., which has battered Israel for years, rigged the numbers.

On July 27, the World Health Organization warned that “malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip,” with 74 malnutrition-related deaths so far in 2025, most occurring in July. According to the WHO, “The crisis remains entirely preventable. Deliberate blocking and delay of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid has cost many lives.”

But just one week later, a U.N. agency reported that Palestinian mobs and terrorists are stealing 89% of aid shipments. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee added that “Hamas made half a billion dollars last year stealing food [and] selling it on the black market in order to finance their activities.”

Rigging stats

On August 22, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a partnership of 25 organizations including U.N. agencies, announced that “reasonable evidence” exists of famine in Gaza since August 15. An Israeli response observed that “the declaration was issued not only without evidence that would justify it under the IPC’s own criteria, but also in contradiction to more recent data that was publicly available.” Although the IPC report cited the interception of aid, it justified that as the “desperation” of residents.

Other studies (including the U.N.’s) have not found widespread famine, a deliberate starvation strategy, or systematic attacks by Israel on civilians. Severe pre-existing medical conditions cause most deaths attributed to malnutrition.

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Hamas propaganda deceives with pictures that are staged, taken in other countries, taken years ago, or taken of children with genetic defects. It also promotes fabricated claims of Israeli attacks on Gazans seeking aid, including the untrue tale of a Gazan boy allegedly killed by the IDF at an aid distribution site.

Except for an approximately three-month blockade, Israel has facilitated aid. It warns civilians of pending attacks, set up hundreds of food distribution centers and aid packages, and supports airdrops of up to 130 tons of food per day. Last month, Israel announced additional actions, including lengthy combat pauses to coordinate aid delivery with the U.N. and other organizations.

The U.N. charter guarantees the “inherent” right of defense. The U.N. Genocide Convention defines “genocide” as killing “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” If Israel wanted to destroy the Palestinian people, it would have done so.

Instead, the claimed dead, including Hamas’ human shields and those executed by Hamas, total under 1.1% of Gaza’s population, which continues to grow. According to West Point’s John Spencer, the leading expert on urban warfare, no military has ever done more than Israel to avoid civilian casualties. Israel’s increasingly precise targeting of combatants has achieved a lower civilian death rate than most wars over the last 100 years.

Double standards for Hamas

The Hamas charter states that Israel must be “obliterated” and that “Moslems must fight Jews and kill them.” Hamas targeted civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, and has launched thousands of rocket attacks since then.

If leftists and anti-Semites prevent Israel and Jews from fighting an aggressor who has pledged to destroy them, targets civilians, and takes and murders hostages, precisely who is complicit in genocide?

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

'Let all hell break out': Trump issues dire warning to Hamas over threats to delay hostage release



President Donald Trump responded to Hamas' threats to indefinitely hold the remaining hostages despite initially agreeing to release a few individuals by noon on Saturday.

In mid-January, the former Biden administration announced a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The fragile arrangement included an agreement for Hamas to release 33 of the 251 hostages — including children, women, and elderly civilians — captured in its October 7, 2023, terror attack in exchange for Israel turning over nearly 2,000 Palestinian terrorists.

'All hell is going to break out.'

So far, Israel and Hamas have carried out five exchanges, releasing 21 hostages and 730 Palestinian prisoners. The next swap was scheduled for Saturday by noon, when Hamas was expected to release three more hostages. However, Hamas has threatened to indefinitely hold the hostages, claiming Israel broke the ceasefire deal.

Abu Obeida, a spokesperson for the terrorist group, stated, "Over the past three weeks, the resistance leadership has monitored the enemy's violations and failure to fulfill its obligations under the agreement, including the delay in allowing the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting them with direct shelling and gunfire in various areas across Gaza, and denying relief supplies of all kinds to enter as agreed, while the resistance has implemented all its obligations."

"Therefore, the release of the Zionist prisoners next Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, will be postponed until further notice, and until the occupation commits to and provides compensation for the entitlements of the past weeks retroactively," Obeida said. "We reaffirm our commitment to the terms of the agreement, as long as the occupation remains committed to them."

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz called Hamas' threats to hold the hostages "a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement and the hostage release deal."

"I have instructed the [Israeli Defense Forces] to maintain the highest level of readiness for any possible scenario in Gaza and to fortify the defense of Israeli communities. We will not allow a return to the reality of Oct. 7," Katz added.

Trump responded to Hamas' threats on Monday evening, suggesting that Israel cancel the ceasefire agreement if the terrorists do not release all the remaining hostages by the Saturday deadline. He noted that it would ultimately be "Israel's decision."

"If all the Gaza hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 p.m., I would say cancel the ceasefire," Trump stated. "Let all hell break out; Israel can override it."

He added that Hamas must release "all of them — not in drips and drabs."

"Saturday at 12 p.m. and after that, I would say, all hell is going to break out," Trump stated.

Hamas is reportedly holding 76 remaining hostages, but only 44 are believed to still be alive, NBC News reported.

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Alex Stein goes camping with pro-Palestinian protesters



Alex Stein had one goal as he ventured onto the campus of Sacramento State: find and join a pro-Palestinian protest encampment.

While the protesters ended up being less than thrilled to see his friendly face and were not very good at sharing their tents, he did have some interesting interactions, to say the least.

As Stein ventured through the encampments, he found himself face to face with many students who identify as transgender or nonbinary.

“Don’t you think it’s kind of weird being a trans person protesting for Palestine? Doesn’t it seem hypocritical?” He asked one student who was wearing a mask. “I’m not even hating. I’m celebrating your transgenderism, but don’t you think that’s kind of weird that they would probably treat you very poorly?”

While the protester gave no comment, another protester, also wearing a mask, showed Stein his middle finger as the Palestinian flag billowed across him in the wind.

While Stein continued to ask how the protesters felt about the treatment of gays in Palestine, they continued to stand strong, masked and silent. However, when Stein went to leave this particular group, they began following him in silence.

“Everybody’s just mute,” Stein observes. “I’m happy they’re all following me.”

There were a few students from outside the protest who did have something to say.

“I’m scared of freedom of speech now. I’m scared to say something and then next thing you know I’m going to get kicked out of the school,” one student tells Stein.

“What do you think about the gay people that are trying to protest for Palestine?” Stein asks him.

“I think we should care about America first,” he answers.


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Anti-Israel protesters block New York Times delivery trucks: 'Consent for genocide is manufactured here'



Anti-Israel protesters flooded a printing facility in New York City overnight, blocking trucks from collecting several media outlets' newspapers for morning delivery, including the New York Times, WABC reported.

According to law enforcement, a group of pro-Palestinian agitators gathered outside one of the nation's largest newspaper printing facilities around 1 a.m. on Thursday to create a blockade. The protesters prevented delivery trucks from accessing the building by standing in the road with their arms linked.

Video of the protest shared by WABC showed approximately a couple dozen activists obstructing one of the access roads to the Queens facility. The anti-Israel protesters carried signs reading, "Stop the presses," "Free Palestine," and "Will you write about this?"

The demonstrators placed rocks and office furniture on the roadway to further disrupt the delivery truck drivers. A large sign planted among the debris read, "Consent for genocide is manufactured here."

The roughly two-hour-long demonstration delayed the pickup and delivery of newspapers from several media outlets. The protesters dispersed around 3:30 a.m., and delivery trucks were once again able to access the building.

Police reported that no arrests were made.

The 300,000-square-foot facility also prints USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and the New York Post.

According to Hell Gate, the protest was organized by Writers Against the War on Gaza. Harry, an activist who participated in the demonstration, told Hell Gate's Nick Pinto, "We're trying to take the Times out of circulation for a day."

"People view it as this repository of objective knowledge, but it's actually at the forefront of manufacturing consent for this war. We want to challenge that, and create a vacuum where other things are possible," said Harry, who asked the news outlet to omit his full name.

The New York Times responded to the demonstration, releasing a statement Thursday morning that read, "The Israel-Hamas war is a complex and challenging story, and we receive criticism from each side. We are open to good-faith disagreement but firmly reject any assertion that our coverage displays bias. We support the rights for groups and individuals to express their point of view, even when we disagree with it as it relates to our coverage, but will not let critics or advocacy campaigns sway us from independent reporting."

The newspaper outlet assured its readers that the protest caused only "minimal disruption" to its distribution.


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MUST SEE: Brother of Hamas victim shares his tragic story



Dave Rubin is in Israel this week to talk to locals and hear their stories. Yesterday, he met with 26-year-old Ilay David.

Ilay’s younger brother, Evyatar, was taken hostage by Hamas during the Nova Festival on October 7. When the invasion began, Evyatar texted his brother informing him of the attack, but their connection was soon lost. Shortly after, Evyatar’s sister posted his photo on Instagram asking if anyone had seen him. An unknown number messaged her back with videos of Evyatar. The first showed him being dragged inside Gaza by a terrorist, and the second showed him handcuffed on the floor in a dark room with several other victims, including his childhood best friend.

“The cameraman was making sure that we [would] see their faces and recognize them,” Ilay tells Dave, noting that his brother was staring at the camera with “primal fear.”

“At that moment, I felt mostly anger. … I felt like I failed to protect my younger sibling, and I felt helpless – like there's nothing I can do,” says Ilay.

After a week had passed, Ilay joined a families' forum and has since been doing everything in his power to bring his brother and the other hostages home safely.

Despite released hostages’ reportings of mental and physical abuse and there currently being “no signs of life,” Ilay refuses to give up hope that his brother will come home one day.

“We have to fight evil and bring them back home – all of them – as soon as possible,” he says.

To hear Ilay’s story – a tale of unshakeable hope in the face of tragedy and fear – watch the clip below.


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Bill Maher slams progressives for celebrating Hamas, spreading anti-Semitism: 'You're the ones with the tiki torches now!'



Bill Maher torched fellow progressives for engaging in anti-Semitic sentiments following the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

On the latest episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," the liberal talk show host pummeled his fellow liberals for celebrating Hamas and promoting anti-Jewish sentiments ever since the Hamas surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7.

Maher asked the "Real Time" panel, "What do you make of this level of just gut-wrenching anti-Semitism?"

Maher then confessed, "I must admit, I don't think of myself as a naive person [but] I've been surprised. It was like a volcano that blew. I mean, just the people in the United States who [are like] 'F*** Israel!' You know, the 'Any means necessary!' I just, I don't know where this comes from. I guess it's ancient. Obviously, the hatred of the Jews goes way back. But I was taken aback by this."

Political scientist Ian Bremmer chimed in, "You can't tell me you don't think social media has made it much worse."

Maher responded by saying, "So you think that's the answer? Because it's got to be something about the Jews themselves because there were other people around the world who are oppressed. There are other colonized places – not that Israel colonized anything – but why this one place?"

The liberal talk show host continued, "Why does this arouse, especially among young people? I mean, the young people who hated Trump because he wouldn't condemn the people with the tiki torches talking about Jews – you're the ones with the tiki torches now!"

Maher was referencing the so-called "Unite the Right" rally in August 2017 – where proponents of Confederate monuments, protesters from the alt-right, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, counter-protesters, and Black Lives Matter supporters clashed in Charlottesville, Virginia. White nationalists had carried tiki torches and chanted racist slogans.

The protest turned deadly when a driver purposely slammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters and killed Heather Heyer.

The driver of the car attack was James Alex Fields Jr. – who had espoused white supremacist and anti-Semitic viewpoints online and at the rally. Fields pleaded guilty to Heyer's murder and 29 violations of hate crimes. He was sentenced to life in prison.

CNN host Fareed Zakaria theorized, "The upsurge in anti-Semitism that you're seeing around the world, and sadly in the United States as well, is in a way the most powerful justification for the state of Israel."

"It must feel to Jews everywhere that they're not safe," Zakaria stated. "The one place that they can be safe is the state of Israel. It's the ultimate justification."

"Why it happens is, sadly, because it is the oldest bigotry known to man," Zakaria added. "It comes out of Christian ideas about Jews."

Maher vehemently disagreed that is the reason why younger people are expressing anti-Semitic vitriol.

The HBO host speculated that some people supporting Palestinians "think of themselves as social justice warriors."

He criticized young activists for not having sufficient knowledge of the history of Israel and Palestine.

"They don't want to learn anything… They want to have a cause," Maher noted. "It's not about Israel, it's about this cause, the Palestinians. Like I said, there's many people around the world who could have similar causes… This is the one that they latch on to. They don't learn anything about the history of the region or who's right and who's wrong and where they'd be more comfortable."

Maher then rejected the debate over "proportionality" in Israel's military response to the Hamas surprise attack that ignited the war.

He proclaimed, "For people who wonder why they are doing it, is because if they don't, their answer… is that if they don't fight back Hamas, they're telling you we're going to do it again!"

"I've used the word proportionality, and I think there should be – but it doesn't mean this thing where like, 'Hamas is going to attack – that’s a given. And then however many they kill, then you get to kill about the same," Maher said. "You get to match it and then the war's over.' That's not how wars work. Stop attacking them!"

According to the Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitic incidents have spiked in the weeks since the Hamas attack on Israel.

The ADL recorded a total of 312 anti-Semitic incidents from Oct. 7 until Oct. 12 – including 190 that were directly linked to the Israel-Hamas war. In the same time period last year, there were 64 reports of anti-Semitic incidents.

Last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray said anti-Semitism is reaching "historic levels" in the United States.

"This is a threat that is reaching, in some way, sort of historic levels," Wray said during a Senate hearing.

Wray said of the Jewish-American population, "In fact, our statistics would indicate that for a group that represents only about 2.4% of the American public, they account for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes."

You can watch the "Real Time with Bill Maher" clip below.

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Just for fun — watch furious Hillary Clinton get heckled by a protester



Hillary Clinton has had more than her fair share of acquaintances mysteriously disappear, and now the internet is ablaze with hope that a recent heckler of hers doesn’t meet the same fate.

While the former Democratic presidential candidate was speaking on a panel at Columbia University’s “Making Human Rights Come Alive: The UDHR at 75” event, a protester made it known he wasn’t happy with her or Joe Biden.

And Hillary was furious.

The protester refused to stop demanding that Hillary comment on what he called President Biden’s “warmongering” Oval Office speech, which was in favor of funding military efforts in Israel and Ukraine.

“President Joe Biden is calling for $100 billion of funding for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine, and we’re supposed to just bundle these together and pretend like we’re going to rush to World War III, and we’re all just gonna let Hillary Rodham Clinton sit here and —" the protester shouted before Clinton angrily interjected.

Clinton claimed she would wait for the protester afterward if he wanted to have a conversation, to which he responded, “OK, right, you’re going to wait for me? Please, I do not believe you.”

He then told Clinton he was exercising his right to free speech, to which she retorted, “But it’s not free speech when you’re disrupting everybody else’s opportunity to speak.”

The crowd applauded as he left.

Chad Prather is not impressed with Clinton’s reaction.

“You can hear her crusty v** just drying up even further, dude. I mean, like, she’s pissed, she’s ready to suicide somebody,” Prather jokes.

Comedian JP Sears joins in, adding, “If someone hasn’t been following what’s going on, she is not an elected leader; therefore she has a lot of authority, but I’m excited for her idea to be implemented of deprogramming Trump supporters.”

“I’m at the top of the list,” he continues, “I’m excited for it.”


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Why is American media so quick to embrace Palestinian propaganda?



The American media refuses to call Nazis “Nazis” — unless, of course, it’s Donald Trump.

“Then they’ll call him Hitler,” Mark Levin says, before adding. “The greatest friend the Jews in Israel have ever known — Donald Trump. He's Hitler.”

Meanwhile, the American media is spouting Hamas’ propaganda and questioning Israel’s right to defend itself against annihilation.

“Hamas plays the media like a fiddle,” Levin says, noting that if Hamas were the side that actually cared about the civilian casualties displayed all over the news, they wouldn’t have missile launching sites in hospitals, mosques, and elementary schools.

“They spend the vast majority of their money building weapons and tunnels to kill Jewish people. They don’t care about the people; if they cared about the people, they wouldn’t be terrorists,” he adds.

Levin predicts that the American media won’t just play Hamas propaganda on repeat but will completely turn against Israel, “just as they covered up the Holocaust during World War II.”

While Hamas’ motivation is about the Jews, otherwise known to the media and liberals as “the occupiers,” he believes it's about more than that.

The Quran tells its believers to “eliminate the Jews, to eliminate the Christians, to eliminate the atheists and the non-believers.”

And considering that, it’s no wonder Iran wants a nuclear weapon.

“Obviously to try and blow Israel off the face of the earth,” Levin says, before explaining that Joe Biden, who’s given billions to Iran, is one major figure to blame.

“He’s capitulated to the Hamas Nazi wing of his party, he’s funded Iran, he’s funded the Palestinians, he’s done everything he shouldn’t have done, and in that, he’s betrayed the people of Israel, just as he’s betraying the people of the United States.”


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