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Lies beget murder: “blood on their hands”

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In the aftermath of the DC killing by Elias Rodriguez, there are many articles (for example, this) featuring the phrase “blood on their hands” and blaming various entities for stirring up such murderous hatred: the universities, the online influencers, leftist organizations, the UN, international courts, and the press – all of which have been busy churning out anti-Jewish anti-Israel venom, a regular “Protocols of Zion” and/or blood libel a day.

Much of this anti-Jewish propaganda takes the form of an ancient Jew-hating lie: the blood libel, which accuses Jews of being baby-killers. Now, it’s certainly true (and tragic) that in modern wars, babies are killed at times. But the IDF goes out of its way to avoid that, whereas Hamas puts its children in harm’s way in order to encourage it and use it to demonize Israel and Jews. Hamas also lies constantly about the number of casualties, especially of young people, and the press dutifully spreads the lies without question. Accusations of “genocide” are hurled at Israel and accentuated by the farce of international courts.

In my early blogging days, I wrote at length about one of these blood libels, the Mohammed al Durah case. Palestinians faked a child’s death at Israeli hands, filmed it in an early example of what became known as Pallywood, and spread the lie around the world. It was used as justification for the Second Intifada, a series of bloody terrorist attacks on Israel.

Now the cry around the world is “Globalize the Intifada!” and we have the very predictable murder at the hands of the non-Arab activist leftist American-born Rodriguez.

Melanie Phillips describes the process in a piece entitled “Blood on their hands,” with the subtitle “Horrifyingly, antisemitism has become a moral obligation for liberals.” An excerpt:

The murderer pulled the trigger. But many others have the blood of these two innocents, who were reported to have soon become engaged, on their hands.

The university principals who have allowed hate mobs on campus to incite the murder of Jews and destruction of Israel, week in, week out; the politicians who have allowed the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Iranian extremists to spread their influence throughout western civil society; the media and all those who relentlessly demonize Israel with blood libels and murderous lies, including the British, French and Canadian governments that this week threatened to punish Israel for defending itself—these all bear responsibility for what happened in Washington.

This week, another falsehood about Israel’s war in Gaza was added to the relentless incitement against the Jewish state. This one came from the U.N.’s emergency coordinator, Tom Fletcher, who told the BBC that “14,000 babies will die in 48 hours” from malnutrition.

A moment’s thought would suggest that such a synchronized mass mortality event was simply incredible.

The media, however, parroted it as valid. It duly spread like wildfire. Countless Israel-haters leapt upon it to validate their loathing. In a poisonous debate about Gaza in Britain’s House of Commons, members of parliament referred to it no fewer than 13 times.

It soon turned out, however, that it was indeed nonsense. As the BBC later clarified, Fletcher had misrepresented a claim made on May 12 by the U.N.’s IPC food classification system—a claim that was itself highly questionable—that an estimated 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition were expected to occur among Gazan children aged between 6 and 59 months from April 2025 to March 2026.

So two days actually turned out to be one year, and 14,000 certain deaths turned out to be 14,000 possible cases of malnutrition.

We don’t know whether Fletcher can’t read, was feeling the worse for wear that day or maliciously misrepresented what the IPC had said. What we do know is that the United Nations and the entire global humanitarian establishment constitute a bubbling sewer of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred.

False claims of imminent famine and starvation in Gaza have been made on a regular basis since the very start of the war. It’s an emotive blood libel that has incited a murderous hysteria of the kind that led to the gunning down of the young couple on Wednesday night.

The famine and starvation never materialized.

Those aren’t the only lies about Israel and the Gazans, of course. But accusations of baby killing and baby starvation are especially potent and emotional ones with an ancient lineage. They’ve been sparking the murder of Jews for centuries.

Rodriguez is a leftist clearly motivated by the left and its propaganda. But don’t think there aren’t people on the right – or supposedly on the right – who spread the same and/or different lies, although there are far fewer of them then on the left. I’m thinking of Candace Owens, to take one prominent example (the following are from her “X” account):

Live with Ian Carroll today discussing Zionists wasting no time using a tragedy to try to score points.

Or:

There is nothing more fake, gay, and obvious than the“you have blood on your hands” aimed at people who have nothing to do with a crime that has taken place, because they hold a reasonable opinion about something else.

What is happening in Gaza is still wrong, psychos.

Her use of the phrase “what is happening in Gaza” does not refer to anything the Palestinians are doing; it refers to Israel.

By highlighting Owens, I most definitely do not mean to suggest that the left isn’t much much worse in this regard. I’ve written about that many times before. I merely want to illustrate that Jew-hatred is growing on the right as well, mostly online and due to Owens and a few others who have gained many many followers.

NOTE: Here are some posts you get when you do a search on this blog for “blood libel.”

Comments

Lies beget murder: “blood on their hands” — 28 Comments

  1. Blood on their tongues is more apt, I think. Too much encouragement altogether though, however it happens to proceed.

  2. As a blogger who called herself Babba Zee posted on Little Green Footballs around twenty years ago when LGF was an anti-jihad blog: “The far left, the far right, and radical Islam meet at Jew Hate Junction.”

  3. There are very, very few right wing Israel haters or anti semites in America when compared to the crazed, lunatic lefties. The reduction of right wing Israel haters in this country is amazing compared to ‘the Good Ole Days’ of the anti Jew and anti Catholic South.
    Candace Owens, until her unhinged antisemitic rants doomed her, was an absolute darling of us conservatives. Today. however. she is anathema to conservatives because of her anti semitism. We won’t touch her with a ten foot pole and yet. not so long ago, there wasn’t a speaker more sought after by conservative organizations. She is a beautiful woman and an amazing speaker. What a shame that she has shot herself in the foot.

  5. Candace Owens is losing her mind, and, I fear, her soul. I don’t see, so far anyhow, people who listen to her hatred going out and shooting people in the streets. It is a risk, but the violence we’ve seen in recent years has been overwhelmingly leftist.

  8. I agree with others that Candace Owens does not represent the right on antisemitism. I also disagree with Neo that such antisemitism is growing on the right. The shunning of Owens is, to me, evidence that such is not tolerated on the right. It reminds me of why I can’t discuss politics with my wife 🙂 She’s very MotR and her basic default view is that “those on the right are just as bad as those on the left”.

  9. Eventually this will spill over into attacks onto non-Jews and then the fun really begins. It will focus peoples attention even more then 9/11 did.

  10. Anyone ever read the comments about any article at Zero Hedge? They’re a festival of antisemitism. Or try reading comments at a Douglas Murray article at the New York Post, like the recent one in which he condemned the shooting of Lischinsky and Milgrim, and see how a commenting minority say, Jews brought this on themselves.
    I rarely read “liberal” articles (the NYT seems to do the everyone-should-hate-Israel job in the writing itself so the commenters don’t have to), but the difference seems to be that at liberal outlets, the commenters complain about Israel whereas at conservative sites, the commenters talk in a specific and ugly way about Jews: their control of the media, of banking, of politics, etc. ad nauseum.
    Are there fewer of this type than of the liberals who wrap their antisemitism in Israel criticism? Probably, but to me the right wing, out-and-proud Jew haters are more upsetting.

  11. PhysicsGuy, I fervently agree with your 9:34 am comments.
    The “moral equivalency” argument (not what Neo’s doing) about the left & the right is meant to neutralize and silence those bringing objectivity and truth to what’s happening.
    It soothes those who need to be ashamed and made to suffer self-awareness.
    ..
    I have MotR inlaws who vote hard left, and some friends who just don’t vote.
    I’m not allowed to talk reality in their presence.
    Beyond frustrating!

  12. Too bad about Candace Owens. She had real promise. Elsewhere, I wish someone would just ask Tucker Carlson point-blank what he has against Jews (maybe somebody has–I haven’t checked his channel in a while). I hope he would have the guts not to resort to the I-don’t-have-a-problem-with-Jews-I-just-have-a-problem-with-Israel dodge.

    Anybody who visits the paleoconservative blogosphere knows that right-wing Jew-hatred is alive and well. Check out Mark Wauck’s Substack and the Z-Man’s blog. Both venues attract people on the right who really, really hate Jews. Wauck is an ex-FBI counterintelligence agent whose sister was married to Soviet mole Robert Hanssen. Judging by his posts, the Z-Man is or was an IT contractor, formerly based in Baltimore but living now in rural West Virginia (“escape from Lagos”). Wauck is a devout Catholic; the Z-Man is a white nationalist. As far as I can tell, neither of them has written about the murders of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky. I think I can guess what they would say.

    Scourge-of-the-Censorship-Industrial-Complex Mike Benz is an interesting example of a Jew who apparently has an online history of supporting white nationalists and attacking left-wing Jewish influence in this country:

    https://www.jta.org/2025/04/18/politics/marco-rubio-sits-down-with-michael-benz-jewish-former-trump-official-with-an-antisemitic-online-persona

    https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/michael-benz-rising-voice-conservative-criticism-online-censorship-rcna119213

    The Benz business reminds me of Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and the schism in the black community over criticizing black culture. In any case, murky waters with lots of floating ordure. Enter at your own risk.

  14. Ditto, physicsguy … as I come back and read more here.
    Boggles my mind. I’d love to ask them, singly and on truth serum, WHY?
    What did a Jew(s) do that negatively effected you IN AMERICA?

    And the arguments on Israel’s ongoings fall into 2 arenas:
    external (– fighting for survival) and internal.
    The internal one — political — certainly resembles some battles going on here. The anti-Netanyahu groups want to stifle free speech, and give more power to judges (who are political, like our rogue ones).
    I admit I am not following Israel’s politics closely, though.

  15. @Marlene:why?

    If your question is not rhetorical just ask in the comments. Antisemites will be delighted to explain at length. The hard part is getting them to stop.

  16. Physicsguy: yes, there certainly is, but the genocidal rhetoric and the people willing to act on it are currently coming from the left. As you said. My point is that our side has its own vocal Jew-hating contingent, with some very prominent members.

    Marlene: “What did a Jew(s) do that negatively effected you IN AMERICA?” Alas, I can think of a number of things. Exhibit A: Alejandro Mayorkas, the deliberate dismantling of our border, and the demographic destruction of small towns in red America. Exhibit B: Marc Elias and the cynical subversion of the American election system. Exhibit C: Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Inc., and the deliberate corruption of the American judicial system. I could go on and on. This is the Loury-McWhorter Dilemma I alluded to above. To point out all the ways in which left-wing Jews have intentionally damaged America is to find oneself very quickly in very unsavory company. Does that mean that we–American Jews who detest Mayorkas, Elias, Wittes etc. and everything they stand for–shouldn’t do it? My vote is Yes, we should do it–in fact, I think we have a special responsibility to do it–but it involves real danger and will, unfortunately, feed the demons. So be it.

  17. Thanks for the review of the sewers of the internet, Hubert. These don’t sound like the kinds of people I’d want to spend my time with. Ditto to the commenters cited by MrsX. One of the problems, however, with internet commenters, is that they may represent actual individual people, or they may rather be one person commenting over and over using different screen names, or even bots doing that. Looking at the articles and not the comments is a better way to assess “right” or “left” leanings.

  18. Hubert, I never thought of those offenders you mention as Jewish. In some cases, I didn’t know they were. Destructive and left-wing, yes. It never occurred to me to identify that destructiveness with their Jewish identities.

  19. Hubert:

    Jewish people comes in all shapes, sizes, and types. But their average intelligence and achievement level tends to be somewhat higher – again, on average – than most other ethnic groups (we are talking about ethnic groups here rather than religious beliefs, because many high-achieving Jews are not religious). Therefore among ethnic Jews we get people who excel at doing good, whether it be in medicine or science (math, physics), business, music (the American musical theater), philanthropy, etc.. However, there are also people of ethnic Jewish background who succeed in things you or I think are bad: Mayorkas, Soros (who was raised to be anti-Semitic, by the way, by his own description), Karl Marx (converted as a child to Christianity but ethnically Jewish, and also an anti-Semite), etc.

    Of course one can should criticize such people. But why does their Jewishness matter? Does the Catholic background or Italian ethnicity of Fauci matter? Does anyone even mention it when they criticize him? No. For that matter, Hitler was originally raised in the Catholic Church although later he was not a practicing Catholic. However, only those who are anti-religion in the first place would place Hitler’s evil under the tent of Catholicism.

  20. Kate: “It never occurred to me to identify that destructiveness with their Jewish identities.”

    Right-wing Jew-haters do. And many left-wing Jews and “progressive” Jewish congregations (like the one in my New England hometown) helpfully make the connection for them by proudly proclaiming that left-wing political activism, which of course they see as a wonderful thing, is an embodiment of the essence of Judaism. It doesn’t matter whether the argument is spurious. The damage is done.

    Commenters: point taken. The two blog authors I mentioned make their own views on the subject sufficiently clear.

    Neo: “But why does their Jewishness matter?” It shouldn’t. But it does, in large part because, as I just pointed out, left-wing Jews themselves proudly make the connection. Your question about Fauci is a legitimate one; we could add Bill Ayers and many others to the list of left-wing activists and subversives whose heritage and identity are not an issue. Unfortunately, we’re different. That’s just how it is. Arguing that it shouldn’t be is beside the point.

    Please understand that I’m not sure what to do about the rise of murderous Jew-hatred on the left and the right in this country. I do think that refusing to confront its underpinnings head-on for fear of giving it legitimacy and ammunition isn’t the answer. The only thought I can offer is that, in these situations, the best defense is a good offense. In the case of D.C. and other big cities, that means armed guards at Jewish establishments and members of the community who are willing to carry and use deadly force if necessary. E.g. how black communities in the Deep South armed themselves and instituted neighborhood patrols under Jim Crow (see also: Betar). Our Israeli commenters might offer another solution: Make aliya.

  21. Hubert:

    I have never seen anyone like Mayokas or Soros make the connection between his policies and his Jewishness. Maybe they have, but as a heavy consumer of news I certainly haven’t seen it. No doubt some left-wing Jew somewhere has made that connection. But it can’t be common, because I haven’t seen it. It’s certainly not mainstream; perhaps it happens in Jewish publications?

    What I do see regarding left-wing people of Jewish ethnicity is an obsessive need for Jew-haters to point out their Jewishness, even if it is very tenuous because they’ve not been raised as Jews, have converted to Christianity, or are atheists, and sometimes are themselves anti-Semites.

  22. Hubert, I appreciate your reply. And like Kate, I never knew those were Jewish — esp’ly Mayorkas. Just grouped them under “evil”. And anti-Americans!
    …
    Neo: Yes, well stated.
    I hope to never blame all people of a certain ethnicity or religion* by the bad ones of the grouping. (It’s something to contemplate and self-inspect, I see.)

    Racists do it explicitly (assume all of the other race are bad). And they never want to move past old hurts. EG: those calling for reparations.

    * The ethnicities or religions that teach hate are a special problem. And truly awful when the teachings win. I guess I would put Gazans in there, since they teach their children to hate Jews and Israel.
    Islam seems to do similarly. Which is (– as I have been clear in past comments) just one reason I worry about Islam and “religious rights” in America.
    (I’m thankful there are now more lawsuits & investigations into the EPIC City development near Plano, Texas!)

  23. Good point on Fauci. We don’t blame Italians in general for Fauci’s failings — although the scent of the Mafia did hang over Italians in America for some decades.

    It is sadly true that many Jewish places of worship in the US wisely already hire armed security for weekend services. I read that Jewish people, individually, are buying firearms and taking training, another good idea.

    When I lived in Cairo, every week when we went to our Christian worship service we passed a guard with a rifle at the entrance.

  24. Hubert, I appreciate your reply. And like Kate, I never knew those were Jewish — esp’ly Mayorkas. Just grouped them under “evil”. And anti-Americans!
    …
    Neo: Yes, well stated.
    I hope to never blame all people of a certain ethnicity or religion* by the bad ones of the grouping. (It’s something to contemplate and self-inspect, certainly, as self-awareness demands.)

    Racists do it explicitly (assume all of some other race are bad). And they never want to move past old hurts. EG: those calling for reparations.

    * The ethnicities or religions that actually TEACH hate are a special problem. And truly awful when the teachings win. I guess I would put Gazans in there, since they teach their children to hate Jews and Israel.
    Islam seems to do similarly. Which is (– as I have been clear in past comments) just one reason I worry about Islam having “religious rights” in America.
    (I’m thankful there are now more lawsuits & investigations into the EPIC City — Islam — development near Plano, Texas!)

  25. The website comment and edit features seem to be acting up for me, btw.
    Sorry for duplicates, etc.

  26. The website comment and edit features seem to be acting up for me, btw.
    Stalls are occurring, and then duplicates.

  27. My point is that our side has its own vocal Jew-hating contingent, with some very prominent members.
    ==
    The only person you mention who might qualify as ‘very prominent’ would be Tucker Carlson.

  28. a variation on that gunther grass line ‘fascism is always falling in America, but it always lands in Europe, the latter has imported the Green Flag, instead of the Black and Red Standards,

    Mayorkas and Garland allowed the ansars, to swarm every major city, all the way screaming about white fragility, we know there are at least 300 persons on the watchlist that were identified, how many have snuck in

    Hochul what more needs to be said about her, and what she has done to the State of New York, but this is prog mentality as with Ocasio Cortez or Jasmine Crockett one doesn’t impute any great relation to those ethnicities, there are plenty of Caucasian lefties like Chris Murphy or State Deparment legacy Michael Bennett, there really has been little introspection on the Red Green alliance ANSWER/ the Brotherhood archipelago, that yielded last weeks atrocity,

    https://canarymission.org/individual/Calla_Walsh

    the left was laser focused on the threat posed by Catholics like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, the fact you don’t know their perfidy, just shows you,

    meanwhile the Times as with other Corporate press is still taking up the standards of the Gaza Health Ministry

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