So they are shooting Jews in the streets now. That’s nice. Free Palestine! Welcome to the Global Intifada! Stop the Genocide! In Europe they are running Jews out of town and in Ireland they are spitting at Jews in bars.
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim are now dead. They met at work—they were staffers at the Israeli embassy—and fell in love. Yaron a Christian, 30, had purchased an engagement ring for Sarah a Jew, 26, a few days ago. They were meant to fly to Israel this coming Sunday so that she could meet his parents, who live in Jerusalem, before he proposed.
Yaron and Sarah were murdered in Washington DC because the killer thought they were Jews and because they were gathered in a Jewish place for an event hosted by a Jewish organization. Elias Rodriguez, 31, had hidden a gun outside the event and simply wanted to kill Jews. “Free, free Palestine” he said as he whipped out his terrorist keffiyeh scarf and shot them.
It is not a coincidence that this murder of these two young Israelis came in the week of the latest blood libel levelled against Jews. Namely that 14,000 babies in Gaza would starve to death in 48 hours if aid didn’t get in. This was a completely lying, untrue report from Tom Fletcher the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs.
This shocking, horrifying and deeply disturbing ‘fact’ was reported immediately in the BBC, the Irish Times, RTE and other media outlets around the world.
The Irish media is in such a state of hysteria that I genuinely feel like I’m living in 1930s Germany. It is frightening and I’m not even Jewish.
It is impossible to talk to anyone about it. You might as well be arguing with someone in the Weimar Republic that believes in this heart of hearts that the Jews were responsible for Germany’s defeat in WWI and hyperinflation. There is no point.
The Irish State remained ‘neutral’ while 6 million Jews were being murdered by the Nazi killing machine. Ireland decided to sit WWII out. Something to do with not liking Churchill. And just to make their neutrality clear the head of government offered condolences to the German state on Hitler’s suicide. That’s the Irish record on Jews.
Eighty years later and the Irish government are accusing the only Jewish state on planet earth of genocide. Day in and day out they accuse them of being baby killers. They recognised a Palestinian state whose elected government Hamas murdered 1,200 Jews only months before. Although the Irish government engage in the fiction that they do not recognise Hamas as the official government of the new Palestinian state, that is clearly an absurdity. If anyone is complicit in cold blooded murder of innocent civilians it’s the Irish State. They disgust me.
Back to that horrifying news that 14,000 babies were about to perish in Gaza within 48 hours at the hands of the Israeli state. Turns out, that was a lie. But as the Nazis taught us – you tell a lie big enough and it sticks. Even these days, you can print the correction or clarification a few hours later but it doesn’t matter. The damage has been done.
Buried way down in a report on the terrible state of Gaza – which Hamas is entirely responsible for – is this from RTE: The United Nations has sought to clarify widely-reported remarks made by its humanitarian chief on Tuesday that 14,000 babies would die in Gaza within 48 hours.
In a statement to the BBC, which broadcast the original interview with Tom Fletcher, the UN said they were pointing to the need to get supplies to those suffering from malnutrition “as soon as possible, ideally within the next 48 hours.”
The UN highlighted a report that said over 14,000 cases of severe acute malnutrition were expected to occur in children between April 2025 and March 2026 - a period of 11 months, not 48 hours.” The children are aged six to 59 months.
Get supplies in within 48 hours is very different to 14,000 babies will be dead in less than 48 hours. There will be 14,000 cases of severe malnutrition in children are aged six to 59 months in the next year is very different to 14,000 babies being starved to death in 48 hours.
This was another blood libel against Jews, as explained by Brendan O’Neill here.
The blood libel that “14,000 babies are about to die in Gaza” was the very first line of the statement released and Tweeted by Kneecap in response to one of the band being charged with a terrorism offence. The very first line. That tweet has been viewed almost 2 million times. With every view a target is painted on the backs of Jews in the West. If you don’t think these things matter – you are a fool.
What was even more interesting is the reaction to the ‘clarification’ over the claim of thousands of babies starving in 48 hours. If you heard truly shocking news that thousands of babies were about to starve and then were told that is not right you should be relieved.
You would think, in a sea off blood and death and tragedy at least that is something. That terrible news story is not true. Things are awful but I am relieved at the ‘clarification.’
But that wasn’t the reaction. Much of the reaction on Twitter was – oh it isn’t really a clarification it isn’t really a walk back. Why? Why would that be anyone’s reaction?
CS Lewis. “Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.”
Pure hatred. That is what you are dealing with in the West right now – the pure hatred of Israel and by extension the Jews. It is all over the West. It has been incubated and cultivated by governments, the media, the universities, social media, all the way down to the schools.
You must understand how deep the Jew hatred and the Israel hatred goes. There are some people out there who would rather have that news story of 14 thousand babies dying in 48 hours be true so they can stick it to Israel, than for it to be untrue. This story must be true because then they are justified in their pure hatred of Jews. That’s the vibe right now – not relief that the UN guy got it wrong.
Feeling disappointed that 14,000 babies have not starved to death in 48 hours is how bad things are folks. How twisted, how sick would you have to be to want this? “The Jews made us lose the war. The Jews kill babies. They did kill Christ. The Jews are 48 hours away from starving 14,000 babies.” This is Hitler’s Willing Executioners territory.
And Hamas? They get a free pass in the West. Things are very bad in Gaza right now – it is awful to watch. And every single civilian death is on Hamas. Every single one. As the West - Britain, Canada and France being the latest - hammer Israel to surrender to Hamas, to just abandon their hostages and leave genocidal Hamas in place they ask nothing of Hamas. Oh a quick line – and it really is a one line – to release the hostages but that’s it.
What baffles me is that there is almost a white supremacist or racist feel to the West's approach to Hamas. Sure, they cannot possibly be expected to behave like civilised human beings and release the hostages. We couldn’t expect that from Hamas - that’s just what they do.
This war has been going for 595 days. That is 595 opportunities that Hamas has had to return the hostages but choose not to. They released an American – Israeli hostage Edan Alexander last week. Just the one. They could have handed over the rest and this war would end, but they didn’t. Where was the outrage from the West at the handing over of just one Israeli hostage and not the rest? None.
What else would you expect from Hamas? Must not ask too much from them. They are entitled to just rampage into Israel murder 1200 people, take 251 hostages and drag out the inevitable war for nearly 600 days now.
Hamas could have decided actually you know what – we will not have our dead baby parade of the Bibas boys as that’s a bit evil. You know what we will just return all the hostages instead and that ends this war. But no. Hamas are implicitly permitted to do whatever the fuck they want by the West and there will no consequences. It is sick. That’s why I’m swearing.
Have the West demanded day after day for the hostages to be released? No. Have they demanded that the Red Cross be given access to the hostages? No. Have they demanded Hamas stop using schools as weapons depots, build shelters instead of tunnels, hold an election, or simply step aside and let Palestinians live? No.
Instead the Irish government rewarded the massacre of Jews by recognising a Palestinian state only a few months later. That’s what murdering Jews will get you. It’s disgusting.
Hamas are not only genocidal Jew killing murderers, they also don’t give a flying fuck about their own people. They mean nothing to them. “A senior Hamas official has drawn widespread anger from Gaza residents after referring to the high death toll in the Strip as “material calculations.”
In a recent interview, Qatar-based Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri remarked that the number of births in Gaza — around 50,000 — exceeds the number of war casualties, which he claimed demonstrates that the losses do not reflect the broader picture of the conflict.
He added, “The martyrs [killed in the war] — the wombs of Gaza’s women will give birth to twice as many. This is the price that must be paid. If we thought in material terms, we would not be able to hold onto our land.”
So the women of Gaza are walking wombs and their babies are disposable. The Palestinians that have been killed are ‘material.’ That’s the kind of thinking you are dealing with. This is the kind of people Israel is just expected to surrender to.
If things continue like this you can expect conditions for Jews in the West to become more dangerous. And that is the aim of so many in the West – to increase the price of being Jewish. You’d Europeans could get through 100 years without whipping up yet more raging antisemitism. They cannot even manage that.
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
Murdered for being Israeli.
May their memory be a blessing.
Brendan O'Neill has been uniformly excellent on the topic of Jew-hatred.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record (again) if you're unclear -- or clearly wrong-- as to whether Israel or Hamas deserves your support, you're only human in the sense that the human capacities for stupidity and depravity are boundless.
Always good to see you hammering the Irish government and the media on this, Laura.
Wonderful piece of writing, thank you.