Elliott Broidy: It’s time to end the ‘Gaza genocide’ canard
I am outraged that I am reading every single day that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza. It is a charge without foundation. It is an outright antisemitic blood libel. The truth, of course, is the opposite – Israel has waged its war in Gaza in a just, moral, and cautious fashion.
We cannot allow these accusations to go unanswered. They must be challenged, every step of the way.
I wrote about this in the Washington Examiner in a piece titled “It’s time to end the ‘Gaza genocide’ canard,” urging readers to consult the report “Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Re-examination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025,” published by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Beyond Proportionality: Israel’s Just War in Gaza, a book by Thane Rosenbaum, a law professor at Touro University.
My op-ed starts:
Each new day brings with it the same old accusation, no less poisonous for all the repetition: Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza. Hostility to Israel expresses itself, now, without apology or any attempt to hide the antisemitism that fuels it.
The Irish broadcaster RTÉ declares that it will boycott the Eurovision 2026 song contest if Israel is permitted to participate. A music festival in Ghent, Belgium, cancels the appearance of the Munich Philharmonic because its conductor is Israeli. The Croatian president refuses to meet Israel’s foreign minister, who’s on an official visit to Croatia. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez laments that his country “doesn’t have nuclear arms.” Why? Because with them, presumably, he could “stop the genocide in Gaza, pursue its perpetrators, and support the Palestinian population.” And European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces, in a German accent, that the European Union will suspend all payments to Israel in response to the war in Gaza.
As an American who is proud of his country’s unceasing support for Israel, and as a Jew who supports Israel and a number of Jewish causes in this country, Europe, and in the Jewish state itself, I say that it is time to put to rest, definitively and forever, all accusations of Israeli wrongdoing in Gaza. Every single one.
Read the whole thing in the Washington Examiner.