The Greatest Con in Political PR History: The Blood Libel Lie of Israel’s ‘Genocide’

Question: If you sought to destroy Israel’s reputation in America and Europe, how would you do it?

On the surface, it’s a tough PR sell. Israel is a democratic nation surrounded by dictators, monarchs, despots, and Islamic extremists. It’s the only place in the Middle East with free elections, citizenship for Christians, Muslims, Jews, and atheists, religious freedom, and a free press, and it even protects LGBTQ rights.

And, of course, it’s the only nation born from the ashes of the Holocaust. (More on that later.)

Today, while our traditional NATO “allies” sit on the sidelines with their arms folded, Israeli pilots and soldiers are planning next steps in the Iran War with the U.S. Armed Forces. This small Jewish state has emerged as America’s most loyal, reliable military partner.

In return, Israel is hated.

Ex-MAGA influencers talk about Israel far more than any other country — not to extol its virtues, but to demonize it as antithetical to Christian morality. And on the Democratic side of the aisle, younger Democrats now hate Israel more than Iran or China.

Seriously: Only 54% of Democrats under 50 have an unfavorable opinion of Iran. Just 43% have an unfavorable opinion of China. 

Yet 62% have an unfavorable opinion of Israel! They hate the Jewish state more than America’s #1 geopolitical rival and the world’s #1 state sponsor of terrorism!

Israel’s PR woes center on one word: genocide. A supermajority of Democrats — 77% — believe Israel is guilty of genocide. 

Mostly because of its heavy-handed military actions in Gaza, where it indiscriminately slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians. Just randomly killing women and children for the fun of it.

Even though that never happened.

And it’s not just me saying it. This is from Hamas:

Well that ends the debate on deaths in Gaza.

Hamas itself is admitting that 80% of casualties were combatants.

There was never a genocide.

You have been lied to and manipulated. pic.twitter.com/yOaUC2MqkJ

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 22, 2026

Roughly 72,000 Palestinians died in a war that the Palestinians started on October 7, 2023. The population of Gaza was 1.6 million in 2010; today it’s over 2.2 million, mostly due to the high birthrate of Muslims.

Which means, this was the first “genocide” in world history where the birthrate was roughly double the deathrate:

[A]t any given time in Gaza, there are about 60,000 pregnant women. United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) spokeswoman Tess Ingram claimed that 20,000 Palestinian babies were born over the first 105 days, with a Gazan baby born every 10 minutes. After 720+ days, that’s approximately 140,000 new Gazans.

And the Gaza War began [checks watch] 930 days ago. It’s a mathematical fact: There was no genocide — and furthermore, the Palestinian population has INCREASED.

But the United Nations insists otherwise. 

From the BBC: Israel Has Committed Genocide in Gaza, UN Commission of Inquiry Says

A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.

It cites statements by Israeli leaders, and the pattern of conduct by Israeli forces, as evidence of genocidal intent.

How dare Israel inflict “mental harm” against Hamas terrorists! Those monsters!

Linguistically, “genocide” refers to the murder of a genome — i.e. the extinction of an ethnic group. But legally, that’s not at all how it’s defined by the U.N.:

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Which means, under the U.N.’s definition, the Allied nations were guilty of committing genocide against the Nazis in World War II. After all, General Eisenhower certainly intended to destroy — “in whole or in part” — the Aryan government in Germany. 

“Members of the group” were undeniably killed by Allied forces. The German death toll was enormous.

According to the U.N, the Allies were the baddies!

And never forget all the “mental harm” we inflicted on poor, innocent Adolf Hitler:

Why, that one nursery rhyme in particular was just mean! 

In fact, the Allies inflicted so much “mental harm” on the Nazis that Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler all committed suicide. (Gasp!) Over 7,000 Germans killed themselves. 

Clearly, we owe the Nazis an apology.

Which sounds absurd (because it is), but ask yourself: Is it any less absurd than weaponizing the pain of the Holocaust against its descendants?

Under the U.N.’s watered-down, useless definition, “genocide” is simply another synonym for “war,” because — since the dawn of time — almost every single war has pitted one group of people against another group of people.

And that’s a feature, not a bug: With the U.N.’s ambiguous, amorphic definition, foreign diplomats can declare ANY war a “genocide” whenever they want.

Including a war where 80% of the fatalities were terrorist combatants.

No surprise the U.N. targeted Israel: Between 2015 to 2024, the U.N. General Assembly adopted 173 resolutions targeting Israel — and just 80 against every other country on earth… COMBINED. (Kind of weird how the only Jewish state is continually singled out, eh? I wonder if there’s a word for being biased against Jews?)

Question: If these one-sided resolutions are inflicting “mental harm” on the Israelis, does this mean the U.N. is guilty of genocide, too?

The tragedy is, there really was a genocide in Gaza: In 1922, 9.5% of the Gazan population was Christian — over 73,000 people. 

Today, Gaza’s Christian population is just 600. They went from 9.5% of the population to 0.02857%.

In 1922, the total population in all of Gaza was 757,182. Now, it’s over 2.2 million — nearly tripling in size. But very strangely, almost all the new Gazans are Muslims. Their population is exploding.

Yet Gaza’s Christian population has plummeted by over 99%!

That’s far closer to an actual “genocide” than anything Israel has done. But we don’t hear too many left-wingers complaining about the extermination of Gaza’s Christians, do we?

They only care about the phantom “genocide” of Gaza’s Muslims. Even though Muslim numbers have gone up — way, WAY up — and the number of Christians is now approaching zero.

Curious, isn’t it?

But it was absolutely deliberate, and you’re a fool if you think otherwise. For two very specific reasons, Israel is uniquely susceptible to the blood libel of genocide. 

That’s its PR Achilles’ heel.

First, it echoes the centuries-old lie of Jews feasting on the blood of non-Jews in matzo and other religious ceremonies. This new blood libel stands on the shoulders of the old one: It’s Blood Libel 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Second, as we mentioned in the beginning, Israel is the only nation born from the ashes of the Holocaust — a real, undeniable genocidal attempt. Six million Jews lost their lives. Even today, 80 years later, the global Jewish population still hasn’t recovered.

Unlike the Muslim Gazans, there are fewer Jews — not more.

But the blood libel worked. Millions now believe it. The opinion polls speak for themselves.

Accusing Israel of genocide accomplished three key PR objectives:

Remarkably, it wasn’t that difficult a PR campaign to engineer. All it took was the U.N.’s vague, nonsensical legalese to be co-opted by antisemites, who then pushed the genocidal narrative on TikTok.

Even though the so-called Gazan “genocide” never even happened!

It’s the greatest con in political PR history: Israel’s enemies have manufactured a fake genocide — then weaponized it against the descendants of an actual genocide — and are now using it to delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state.

Bravo, bigots. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

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