By Noah Rothman
Thursday, July 31, 2025
I had the privilege of joining the gang on the set of Fox
News Channel’s America’s Newsroom on Thursday to discuss the growing
backlash against Israel in Europe and among Senate Democrats.
Why is there a backlash, anyway? What promoted the sudden
mainstreaming of the argument that Israel’s security policies in Gaza are so
inhumane that it has led Western European governments to back a Palestinian
state (not for the Palestinians’ sake, but to punish Israel) and led 27 Senate
Democrats to support cutting off U.S. funding for Jerusalem? We should be
honest, even if they won’t: It is all an outgrowth of the popular allegation
that the hardship Gazans are experiencing is a deliberate Israeli project —
that Israel has intentionally engineered a famine to
force the Gazan people into submission.
That’s an extraordinary claim, one that has the potential
to alter the geopolitical landscape in profound and, perhaps, irreversible
ways. It should, therefore, be based on rock-solid evidence. But it’s not. Indeed, there prevails among those who accept
this allegation at face value a conspicuous incuriosity about why the supposed
evidence of Israeli perfidy keeps being exposed as fabrications.
If the lack of evidence doesn’t make you curious about
the motives of the institutions and individuals who promote the allegation that
Israel is executing a cartoonishly evil and strategically ponderous campaign of
brutality for brutality’s sake, you have subordinated your critical thinking
faculties to your animus toward Israel.
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