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Collapse of the Blood Libels Against Israel
(Substack) Maj. (ret.) Andrew Fox - The great indictment of Israel by the blood libel machine is coming apart, one revelation at a time. Famine, deliberate attacks on hospitals, the slaughter of journalists and children, and systematic obstruction of aid: each allegation was broadcast as settled fact and then used to prove genocidal intent. Yet there is no aspect of the genocide allegation that has not collapsed. There are two ways of measuring malnutrition in children: weight compared with height, and the size of a child's upper arm. Of 1,335 Gaza children surveyed in 2026, 0.5% were identified as acutely malnourished by weight and height, while 1.3% were identified by upper-arm measurement. Official data show that 1.01 million tons of food entered Gaza between 7 Oct. 2023 and 17 Jan. 2025, against an estimated requirement of 825,000 tons. From the Oct. 2025 ceasefire to 7 June 2026, 1.78 million tons entered, against a calculated need of 643,000 tons. Of course, food crossing a border does not guarantee it reaches every family. However, the quantities of food that entered Gaza are simply too large to claim of a continuous Israeli policy to starve Gaza. The moral fairy tale of innocent hospitals attacked by the IDF is refuted by endless evidence in the public domain of Hamas using hospitals for military purposes. It was claimed that 70% of the dead were women and children. Yet based on Gaza Health Ministry figures, adult men make up over 50% of the fatalities, from a pre-war adult male percentage of 25% of the population. Regarding the supposed massacre of journalists, a study of 266 people listed as journalists or media workers found that 157 - 60% - were members of or clearly affiliated with terrorist organizations. Militant obituaries have identified numerous medical workers as commanders and operatives, while faction records have revealed teenagers listed only as children despite their documented recruitment into armed groups. Due to the relentless depiction of the Jewish state as a child-killing, famine-making engine of genocide, Jews everywhere are forced to answer for accusations that the evidence can no longer sustain. The genie of antisemitism is out of the bottle, and any corrections now will not put it back. With antisemitic physical assaults at a record, the academics, NGOs, politicians and journalists who spread the genocide blood libel without waiting for evidence (or fabricating their own) now have blood on their hands. Israel should already have been exonerated of the blanket charge that it sought to exterminate Gaza's civilians. Genocide cannot remain the default verdict after every single factual pillar supporting it has cracked. The writer, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, served for 16 years in the British Army.