The Endless ‘Genocide’ Lie: How The World Has Smeared Israel Since 1948
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The Endless ‘Genocide’ Lie: How The World Has Smeared Israel Since 1948

The latest barrage after the October 7 Hamas massacre of more than 1200 Israelis is the ugliest chapter yet

Hank Berrien

Israel has been hit with false genocide charges nonstop since virtually the day the Jewish state was reborn, and the latest barrage after the October 7 Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis is the ugliest chapter yet.

In a detailed essay, Norman J.W. Goda, professor of Holocaust studies at the University of Florida, traced how the world’s oldest and most relentless smear against the Jewish state got started and why it keeps coming back stronger.

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