It is as if we are caught in a surreal time warp back to the 1930s, when the Jew was the ubiquitous villain, blamed for capitalism and communism alike, the perpetual culprit of humankind’s ills.
Now, the global call to antisemitism manifests itself in the latest blood libel—that Israel, in its war against Hamas, is engaged in genocide. The lie has spread across universities, news outlets, and international forums, fueling harassment of Jewish students and faculty on elite American campuses from Harvard to UCLA.
But this accusation is not merely false. It is a total inversion of reality.
Far from being genocidal, Israel has been at the forefront of saving lives—dispatching humanitarian aid across the world to victims of natural disasters, pioneering medical breakthroughs, and sustaining