The willingness–nay, eagerness–of world leaders and the mainstream media to accept and propagate every Hamas claim coming out of Gaza is fueling a wave of antisemitism and endangering Jewish lives.
When Hamas charges Israel with starving tens of thousands of babies to death and that charge is duly repeated, unchallenged, by senior UN officials on the likes of the BBC, a gullible global public can hardly be blamed for concluding that Israelis are the very worst of humanity.
Predictably, at least for those with any sense, this irresponsible rhetoric and reporting based on a willingness to take a blood-soaked terrorist organization at its word has resulted in Jews everywhere being harassed and attacked.
“The antisemitic attacks around the world are a direct result of blood libels against the Jewish state and people,” stated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after an Egyptian man used a makeshift flamethrower to wound eight people at a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado.
The attacker, who is currently in the United States illegally, shouted “Free Palestine” as he attempted to burn alive the peaceful protesters.
And it was hardly an isolated incident.
Late last month, a pro-Palestine activist brutally murdered Israeli diplomats Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim on the streets of Washington, DC, also while shouting “Free Palestine.”
Video and photographic evidence of more minor physical altercations and harassment fill social media.
In a series of profanity-laced clips, activists with “The Palestine News Network” hound diners on the streets of Los Angeles, demanding that they support a “free Palestine” or face public ridicule.
Sunday Funday in Beverly Hills 🤗 pic.twitter.com/NYLr0gkV26
— The Palestine News Network (@PaliNewsNetwork) June 1, 2025
Also in Southern California (though this is hardly the only place it is happening), a group of Israeli tourists were filmed being mercilessly badgered by pro-Palestinian activists last week.
The clip was shared on TikTok and showed a man shouting racial slurs at a group of four Israeli visitors. “I can smell rats, I smell Israeli soldiers,” the man said, while urging the tourists to fight him. “Israelis are not welcome here,” he added.
“I smelled you, bro, I smelled you. You smell like a baby killer, you especially. You smell like a baby killer Israeli,” he continued. “Yeah get out of here. Get out of Los Angeles.”
These are but a couple of the innumerable examples of the incitement and rising Jew-hatred that many believe could lead to another attempted holocaust, or the mass immigration (Aliyah) to Israel of the remaining Diaspora Jews.
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