The ‘Genocide’ Lie’s Slow, Quiet DeathPosted on August 20, 2025 You don’t hear much about Israel deliberately engineering a famine in Gaza anymore. Only a few weeks ago, that allegation was nearly ubiquitous. It dominated left-of-center discourse across the Western world, and, among its participants, Israel’s caricatured wickedness was simply assumed. Likewise, the tactical advantages Jerusalem was supposed to accrue from this theatrically evil scheme were similarly presumed. The Jewish state, it was widely surmised, must be just that villainous. Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP
