Each new day brings with it the same old accusation, no less poisonous for all the repetition: Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza. Hostility to Israel expresses itself, now, without apology or any attempt to hide the antisemitism that fuels it.
The Irish broadcaster RTÉ declares that it will boycott the Eurovision 2026 song contest if Israel is permitted to participate. A music festival in Ghent, Belgium, cancels the appearance of the Munich Philharmonic because its conductor is Israeli. The Croatian president refuses to meet Israel’s foreign minister, who’s on an official visit to Croatia. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez laments that his country “doesn’t have nuclear arms.” Why? Because with them, presumably, he could “stop the genocide in Gaza, pursue its perpetrators, and support the Palestinian population.” And European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces, in a German accent, that the European Union will suspend all payments to Israel in response to the war in Gaza.
WHAT AMERICA COULD LEARN FROM ISRAEL AND UKRAINE
As an American who is proud of his country’s unceasing support for Israel, and as a Jew who supports Israel and a number of Jewish causes in this country, Europe, and in the Jewish state itself, I say that it is time to put to rest, definitively and forever, all accusations of Israeli wrongdoing in Gaza. Every single one.
To that end, I urge everyone who reads this piece to read two irrefutable works that establish beyond doubt that Israel is acting fairly, lawfully, and justly in its pursuit of its war of self-defense and self-preservation against Hamas in Gaza. The first is a meticulously researched report, published by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, titled “Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Re-examination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025.” The report has four authors, of whom two are distinguished military historians, one an independent quantitative analyst, and one a member of the Israeli bar.
Readers of the Washington Examiner will not, I suspect, need persuading that Israel has waged war with the utmost care and caution. What they will appreciate, however, is the ammunition that a report such as this one from Bar-Ilan University provides ammunition that would help those on the side of Israel to take on and defeat the antisemites, haters, Islamists, and leftists, as well as to debate those in the political mainstream, such as von der Leyen, who are in thrall to the fashionable demonization of Israel.
We can’t simply dismiss such people as misguided or as cranks. We must challenge them at every step. No canard must go unanswered.
To those who declare that Israel is intentionally starving the Gazan population, deliberately killing civilians, making no distinction in its use of force between civilians and Hamas terrorists, and conducting disproportionate strikes, I say: Hold your tongue and read this report, which lays out the facts as they are, while pointing out also the factual, political, and ideological manipulation engaged in by Israel’s opponents in an attempt to denigrate the Jewish state, and to adjudge it guilty, with no evidence, of “genocide,” that most absolute of human sins of which the Jews themselves are victims.
In recent days, a dubious organization called the International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution stating that Israel was guilty of genocide. Numerous critics have been quick to point out that this association reached its conclusion based on reinterpretations of the conventional definition and laws on genocide in ways that dumbed genocide down, to put it crudely but succinctly.
The Bar-Ilan report addresses the problem: “Much like currency losing value through inflation when printed recklessly, certain terms lose their significance when used indiscriminately. If all high-intensity urban military conflicts in the future — despite significant efforts to protect civilian lives—are labeled as acts of genocide simply because of the immense human suffering they cause, the outcome will be fundamentally contrary to the objectives of international humanitarian law.”
Equally heinous was the decision of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a United Nations initiative, to loosen the definition of famine in such a way as to ensure that conditions in Gaza could be called a “famine,” a classic case of manipulating a definition to serve a blatantly anti-Israel agenda.
Alongside the Bar-Ilan document, I urge you to read Beyond Proportionality: Israel’s Just War in Gaza, a book by Thane Rosenbaum, who is a law professor at Touro University. “The moral challenge that Israel faces is unique,” Rosenbaum writes. “When one side is torching infants and gang raping teenagers, what is to be done with such an enemy who exists right next door — especially when the martyrdom of its own people will redound against you?” It is hard, if not impossible, to imagine a civilized society having to fight a more harrowing, more diabolical war.
And yet, Rosenbaum says, Israel has fought its demonic enemy by the book. While the world asks Israel to endure whatever the barbarians can do to it, Israel’s government and soldiers, the men and women of the exemplary Israel Defense Forces, in so many ways the most moral army in the world, have fought not just against Hamas but also against the moral relativism with which the world confronts Israel.
THE HAMAS UNIT THAT HUNTS PALESTINIANS
As Rosenbaum explains, Israel’s military actions, against Hamas terrorists in Gaza and against Hamas leaders in their safe havens abroad, have been tailored carefully to the laws of war. Their targets have always been terrorists, tunnels, weapons caches, and logistics centers, not civilians. Those who say otherwise are driven not by an understanding of the laws in question, but by a desire to back Israel so far into a corner that its very survival becomes precarious.
In fighting the war against Hamas in this meticulous, conscientious, and unwaveringly humane way, Israel has put its own soldiers in danger as they fight from house to house. But that, of course, is the price a civilized people must pay to protect their civilization — our civilization. And it is a price that Israel has paid willingly — for itself, and for all of us.
Elliott Broidy is the chief executive officer and chairman at Broidy Capital Holdings.