A week or so ago, I said in a social-media post that the towering edifice of lies and libels about Israel was collapsing. It certainly should be collapsing given the empirical evidence and irrefutable facts that constantly emerge about the deceptions, illusions and outright lies told about Israel and its actions.

So why isn’t it collapsing? Why isn’t the narrative unravelling? Do we need an investigation?

For example there was an avalanche of facts demolishing the Big Lie, “Genocide”. That allegation should always have been seen as just a heinous blood libel given the vast increase in the Palestinian population in Gaza and The West Bank during the 40 years of Israeli “rule”. But if the population-increase (from 700,000 in 1966 to over  4.75 million in 2024) wasn’t compelling enough, then there was plenty more evidence, such as the fact that the International Court Of Justice (ICJ) never issued a ruling of “genocide” against Israel at all.

In fact, not only did it never issue a ruling of “genocide”,  but it refused even to issue an emergency temporary ruling. But despite that, Israel’s culpability was deliberately insinuated and repeatedly imputed by the selective quoting (and misquoting) of the ruling. That was then reinforced and embedded through a number of strategies designed to deceive: One, obviously was the word “genocide” being endlessly repeated in the social media echo-chamber. We then had the useful confusion between international bodies with similar initials – the ICJ and the ICC (International Criminal Court). Because, while the ICJ unequivocally refused to rule Israel’s actions as “genocide”, the ICC – with great fanfare – issued “arrest warrants” for the “crime” of “genocide.” But of course, the ICC was demonstrably not impartial. Its Lead Prosecutor at the time was an ambitious Lebanese politician who allegedly circumvented ICC rules and procedures to pursue what certainly resembles a politically-motivated vendetta against Israel.

And then there were those “genocide scholars” who so helpfully reinforced the illusion by voting on Israel’s “guilt” and issuing press statements. Except their credibility collapsed entirely when it emerged that very many new “scholars” from Iraq, Iran, Qatar, etc had recently paid the $90 subscription fee to join. And curiously many had the same family names while none had academic qualifications in the appropriate academic discipline – or in many cases, in any academic discipline.

Next, came a cascade of facts to dismantle the allegations of the suffering of women and children, including statistics provided by the US........

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