As antisemitism surges globally, Israel is smeared with false charges of genocide in Gaza — even as the Jewish state shows unparalleled restraint, humanitarianism, and commitment to life.
Trump: “October 7 Was Genocide at the Highest Level”
When asked about claims that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump reminded the world what real genocide looks like: October 7th, 2023.
“You can’t forget October 7. That was genocide at the highest level,” Trump said (Forbes, Sept. 20, 2025).
Yet perversely, Israel — victim of that barbaric Hamas onslaught — is now being demonized as the perpetrator.
A Time Warp of Antisemitism
This grotesque reversal recalls the 1930s, when Jews were blamed for capitalism, communism, and every ill. Today, the “global call to antisemitism” brands Israel, the world’s lone Jewish state, as genocidal for defending itself against Hamas — a Nazi-like terror organization.
On U.S. campuses from Harvard to Stanford, Jewish students and faculty are harassed, excluded, and vilified. Anti-Israel protests regularly morph into antisemitic hate rallies, complete with classic anti-Jewish tropes.
The Antithesis of Genocide
Israel has always been the opposite of genocidal:
- Humanitarian record: First to send aid to disaster zones worldwide — from earthquakes to famine.
- Ethics of war: IDF warns civilians to evacuate, drops leaflets, makes phone calls, and supplies humanitarian corridors — measures that West Point’s John Spencer confirmed are “unprecedented in urban warfare.”
- Massive aid to Gaza: Since the war began, Israel has delivered 2 million tons of aid into Gaza — one ton per person, nearly 3,000 calories a day. As Netanyahu quipped: “Some starvation policy!”
Would a genocidal state beg civilians to leave battle zones and flood its enemy’s territory with food?
Genocidal Intent: The Missing Element
Under the UN Genocide Convention, genocide requires intent to destroy a people. Israel’s intent is the opposite: to defend its people, free hostages, and dismantle Hamas’s terror machine.
The ICJ itself has rarely applied the term “genocide” — not in Darfur, Biafra, or Yazidi massacres — only in Srebrenica (1995). To apply it to Israel, fighting for survival, is not just legally unsound but morally obscene.
Hijacking Lemkin’s Legacy
Raphael Lemkin, who coined “genocide” after the Holocaust, was a staunch Zionist. Yet today, groups like the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention abuse his name to slander Israel. His family, backed by the European Jewish Association, is taking legal action to reclaim his legacy from those twisting it against the very people Lemkin sought to protect.
Truth Turned Upside Down
- Nazis: slaughtered unarmed innocents solely for being Jews.
- Israel: defends itself after an unprovoked massacre of 1,200 Israelis, while its enemies openly declare genocidal intent in Hamas’s charter: the annihilation of all Jews.
Netanyahu put it bluntly at the UN:
“The truth has been turned on its head. Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization, is given a pass — while Israel is accused of genocide.”
The Bottom Line
The real genocide is Hamas’s ideology and actions. Israel is its victim, not its mirror. Accusations of Israeli genocide are not just lies — they are the latest mutation of age-old antisemitism, aimed at delegitimizing the Jewish state’s very right to exist.
