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Laws/Rules Made Up to Apply to Israel

David Bernstein | 4.7.2026 7:50 PM

Over on X, @Optimist_Gaza challenged readers to list five examples of supposed international law Israel's critics invented to apply to Israel's detriment.

Shany Mor (@ShMMor) quickly came up with twenty-three off the top of his head (reprinted with Shany's permission).

1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack.

2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.

3. A famine can be declared where people are not dying of starvation.

4. A territory becomes the sovereign title of one party — even when that party never exercised sovereignty over it in the past — when a second party conquers it from a third party which attacked it.

5. An armistice line explicitly set by all parties in an armistice........

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