Rejecting the ‘genocide’ campaign doesn’t require us to deny Israel’s war crimes. But distinguishing between the crimes actually committed and the blood libel obliges us to undertake a genuine and in-depth moral reckoning of our conduct
The accusation that Israel is committing genocide was never merely a dispassionate analysis of the war in Gaza. From the outset, it sought to do something more: to cast Israel out of the family of nations and portray it as a demonic entity.