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Barbara Kay: The October 7 trials are coming

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Israel’s kinetic war against Hamas has been successful. Although still defiant, Hamas is a shadow of its pre-October 7 self. The possibility of an October 7 reprisal is forever nil. But Hamas and their supporters are winning the equally important battle for hearts and minds in demonizing Israel and Jews.

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Their toxic flow of accusations — settler colonialism, apartheid and, above all, genocide in Gaza — have never been interrogated in a court of actual law. But they will be. As alpha Israeli journalist Amit Segal recently reported in his daily newsletter, It’s Noon in Israel, “Oct 7 launched the propaganda war, but the trial of the perpetrators will put the propagandists on trial.”

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A Knesset (Israel’s parliament) committee is currently at work on a bill that will create the framework “for what is destined to be the largest and most complex judicial event in Israel’s history,” Segal writes. As Knesset member Yulia Malinovsky, the bill’s initiator put it: “There is nothing better than a proceeding to tell the story.”

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