In June, Spanish President Pedro Sanchez joined the shameless chorus of Israel’s slanderers, asserting, falsely, that Gaza is in a “catastrophic situation of genocide.”
Israel’s enemies—college radicals, mainstream media, NGOs, U.N. officials, celebrities and even heads of state—have cast accusations of genocide in the current Gaza war as wildly as rice at a wedding. Despite their frequency, such accusations are outright lies, disproven by hard, unassailable facts.
These lies can be destroyed using two powerful truths. First, nothing in Israel’s conduct of its war against Hamas indicates any intention of eliminating Gaza’s population. To the contrary, Israel’s policies show exactly the opposite, remarkably effective efforts to protect Gaza’s civilian population.
Second, nothing in Gaza