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Manufacturing a Modern Blood Libel: Genocide, Starvation, and the Language of Dehumanization
(Embassy of Israel) - Executive Summary of New Study by the Embassy of Israel in Washington: On the holiday of Simchat Torah, which marks the annual celebration of the Torah reading cycle, Hamas invaded the State of Israel. Hamas terrorists, joined by Gazans not formally members of the terror organization, launched a cross-border assault and slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostages—the equivalent of over 40,000 Americans killed and more than 8,500 taken hostage in a single day. That day, October 7, 2023, marked the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Before Israel had a chance to count its dead, Western officials and activists across campuses and in city streets were calling for a ceasefire. Within a week, Israel stood accused of genocide. The timing and extent of accusations of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and starvation demonstrate that the charges were driven by a predetermined and highly orchestrated political campaign rather than on-the-ground evidence. A factual assessment renders those charges false, proven by key findings in this report.