The most unfortunate part is that today's libellers are historically illiterate. They don't know about medieval pogroms. They think the persecution of Jews began and ended with the Holocaust. This makes them different from medieval Jew-haters who operated within a tradition with which they were familiar. Modern Jew-haters don't understand the roots of their own hatred. Arguing with them is futilfe, as I realised when discussing the war with an ex-student. I mentioned the 1500+ years of persecution. She seized on this and started listing examples of "Palestinian" suffering, mockingly saying, "But 1500 years ago..." ("years ago" means something very different from what I had said, and suggests a one-time event). She was simply not at all interested in Jewish suffering. I ended the conversation but it depressed me considerably because I began to feel my posting or writing substacks may be pointless. It doesn't convince those who need to be convinced. I cling to the idea that quiet majorities, especially most Christians, are now not Jew-hating and are pro-Israel. This is a huge turn-around.
Thank you Lucy for an article well written and discussing a subject that most do not want to hear about. You do me and my generation honor by continuing to speak up after the past 55 years since I moved to Israel and most of my actual life. (which is alot longer :-) Sometimes I feel very much alone, even amongst some Jews in the western countries whose parents were not survivors of the Shoah, have never been through a war or have not been or lived in Israel. keep it up! My now, year old grandson (pictured) needs your voice so his life will not be marred by another round of viscious antisemitism and allegations that has plagued our people Israel for centuries. Todah!!!!
The Nazis also thought they were the good guys. Though when it came to killing Jews they still had some shame so they did try to hide it as much as possible. Today the west has embraced nazism and celebrate it. Why else would Hamas go pro October 7, but even more so why would the world simply shrug when shown the pictures.
I don't have any answers. But I have taken advantage of the 2nd amendment.
Hamas’ primary strategy of massacring Jews to whet the appetite of the antisemitic world, then maximizing civilian suffering to embolden the full flowering of millions’ most basest instincts - the hatred for the “collective Jew” - has been triumphantly vindicated beyond their wildest dreams.
If you’ve ever wondered how millions of seemingly ordinary people could have enabled centuries of vicious anti Jewish persecution, through the first pre Israel Holocaust and culminating in the Oct 7 massacres and beyond, now you know.
Yes, a thousand times yes, as hard as it is to believe: Yes, they all are lying—the UN and their NGOs, al-Jazeera and its Yemeni owners, the NYT and NPR and BBC etc and most of the global media orgs, the Palestinians and their backers, the Western campus-based Left, which is the great lie factory of our time. All of them have spent decades crafting a narrative where Israel is ALWAYS the guilty party, where its establishment and continued existence should be considered a crime and where peace would break out if only Israel put down its weapons—and absolutely nothing will make them change, question or surrender this narrative. At this point an entire anti-Israel Industrial Complex lives and feeds off this narrative and treats it like both sacred dogma and proprietary IP.
“Why are you bringing up Hamas?! This has nothing to do with Hamas!”
This shows how for Western liberals the Wretched of the Earth become for them either proxy infants and/or sacred cows and/or holy symbols to be worshipped. In this woman's mind Hamas exists outside agency or responsibility, they can never DO but only be DONE to, and they have no hand in creating their situation, all blame lies with the evil white (in this case Jewish) oppressor. For them, blaming Hamas is like blaming a toddler when everything is the parents' fault. Hamas is the new BLM for the Western Left, the latest trendy sacred cause that allows them to preen and parade their exalted compassion and enlightened morality. That's why the woman screamed so much: you were insulting her precious angel!
Western liberalism has devolved into reflexive victim worship, a Passion Play written, produced and directed by bored secular bourgeois that allows them to feel like grand historical actors and righteous rebels without ever leaving their comfy homes and keyboards. This fetish/crusade has almost nothing to do with the supposed intended beneficiaries, who acquire a wholly symbolic existence, and whose welfare is secondary. The global "Free Palestine" movement has been a total disaster for the actual Palestinian people, who are indulged in their worst most deranged fantasies and ridiculous impossibilities like the "right of return", and are never nudged toward peace and sanity, as this would mean the show would be over. The worst thing that can happen to people is becoming a Cause, because then the Cause itself becomes more important than what and who it's supposed to represent.
In Architectures of Protection (!), the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria includes University of Victoria professor Beth Stuart’s antisemitic reflection on her sculptures in the show. In my view this is a serious lapse in the Gallery’s sense and responsibility. You can find my full analysis of Stuart’s work on yacowar.blogspot.com but here is a sample. Please pass it on because Facebook keeps cutting me.
Having carefully avoided mention of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion and slaughter of Israel, here Stuart revives the centuries-old blood libel against the Jews: They want to kill your children! Even when they don’t need Christian blood for their matzo.
She cites a presumably Jewish “pundit” on Israeli TV Channel 14 in an “early 2024…. clip… saying every Palestinian over the age of four years is a potential terrorist and a necessary target of war.” So her sculptures’ mesh bags are the size of a four-year-old child. That quoted statement does seem monstrous — until you recall its context.
First, to represent Israel she chose the right wing news, politics and satire channel that even in Israel is considered extremist. Second, she again omits the October 7 context. A Hamas spokesman flatly stated “There are no civilians in Israel” — i.e., only targets in war. Among their many child victims was one infant whom Hamas reportedly microwaved to death in front of its parents. When Stuart attributes this monstrous “morality” to Israel, she not only blames the victim but charges him.
Third, Stuart’s allegation of extreme child abuse actually is true — but is a charge properly laid against the Palestinians. As Hamas has militarized their hospitals, schools, playgrounds, mosques — thus inviting their wartime attack — they have even more callously weaponized their own children. Their martyrdom culture encourages and rewards the very deaths of their children that they then bewail and blame upon Israel. Parents send their children to summer day camps to train as soldiers. Their schools — abetted by the UNRWA — continue to teach their children to hate and to kill the Jews.
Golda Meir’s sad prophecy still holds: “We won’t have peace until the Palestinians decide they love their own children more than they hate us.” The West’s reflex to blame Israel for the Gaza children’s deaths only encourages that vile abuse to continue. As does Stuart.
Outstanding article. Thank so much for helping me see what blood libel gone viral looks like and how powerful it is.
Yes, of course every day the evil IDF, in cold blood, shoots scores of Gazans at food aid depots. Really? The BBC keeps reporting it, so surely it must be true.
At some point we are going to need to pivot from analyzing the Islamist blood libels to ensuring they dont get a larger foothold in the West. CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood must be labeled as terror adjacent groups and all funding must be outlawed. In otherwords we need to shift from defense to offense and fast!
Certainly logic won't do it. Their world is divided between those who are deeply evil and the majority who are ignorant dupes. They are lost. They all have to be fought not reasoned with.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your essay, Lucy Tabrizi. Agree with much of what has been already said in prior comments.
It is a huge waste of time arguing with these illiterate people (who know little of geography, history or the current conflict.) I’ve been called all sorts of names right here on Substack (and have reported them and blocked them as well.)
I do recommend for you and other readers to read the Voice of Zion (Yonah E’s essay) entitled “I will Stop Arguing with Antisemites and Reclaim my Dignity” right here on Substack on Aug 6, 2025 (10:01pm) PST
Your friends are Purely Projecting their unadmitted and unadmittable racism, onto ‘the out group’, which is and always has been The Jewish People. Here in the UK the mass media too is silent about the racism which is driving the anti-migrant protests and riots happening here this summer: The Same double think process is happening here: All brilliantly documented in George Orwell’s 1984. So Stay strong, Israel. The Red Orchestra is now the puppet of the Black-Fascist Antisemitic Nazi teams running some of the News Rooms here in The West. It is noted that Russia has the same problem with these State Nazi teams who started the Ukraine War in 2014 with the mass murder of Ethnic Russians in The Donbas.
At first I liked it because the gist about fascists, Nazis and anti-Semites is correct. Then I read about the "murder of ethnic Russians" in Donbass, and removed the like.
Victor, I understand your hesitation, but we are correct I assure you. We are a group of British monitors who have watched a very highly-placed Nazi organisation in the Security Services operating out of London and Berlin. They have been outed. These Nazis have re-formed The Nazi Party. They kicked off the Ukraine War in 2014: all this is monitored and in the record and in the bag, and the full details are with the Authorities in London and the USA. They have also been caught organising antisemitism here about the Gaza War, in The West. All this has been monitored too.
I don't want to disappoint you and question your work. I am sure that you have done a great job. Most likely, it is a matter of understanding the processes.
I have been observing what is happening in Ukraine from the very beginning. And the tendencies towards Russia's seizure of power in Ukraine and expansion since about 2007.
I am an Israeli, and with a group of Israelis interested in the situation, I also analyzed the situation. In addition, I myself am an ethnic Russian from Ukraine and I have many sources in Ukraine. In addition, I served in the Soviet army, and then in the Russian army for a total of more than 18 years and I have many sources in Russia. I have been tracking this entire conflict in real time, and the fact that dozens of people did this together with me gives me complete confidence in thinking that I understand the situation.
The only question here is which side to be on. If you think that Nazis are those who do not want a neighboring state to dictate its terms, impose a puppet regime and turn the country into a resource enclave, then you simply accept the point of view of Russian propaganda. But you can look at it differently.
The issue of Ukrainian anti-Semitism has nothing to do with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and it is very incorrect to discuss it in this context.
All you say might be true. But the fact remains that German backed Neo-Nazi militias, supported by the team we have monitored here in London, started the campaign of ethnic Murder in The Donbas in 2014. This has been monitored and verified. European security services as they always do then covered for these Neo-Nazis. It is a disgrace and we have said so.
Once again, I don't doubt your observations, but in any case, the example of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the context of this topic is not suitable.
Considering that Russia itself is an aggressor and a very nationalistic chauvinistic country, and one that is anti-Israeli, it is incorrect to refer to it as a "victim of ethnic cleansing".
Do not confuse Russian Chauvinism and Russian Antisemitism, whilst true, with the new facts. Ethnic cleansing against Ethnic Russians from 2014 by Nazi paramilitaries has been verified. This is now fact. It was and is being carried out by the Nazi militias organised from here in Europe. And the same Six team has organised the Hate campaign against Jews here. All monitored.
"Every share, every slander disguised as activism, every time good people stay silent, it normalises real-world violence, just as the blood libel always has".
Much worse than irresponsible, it is evil and purposefully done to incite hatred and murderous violence against Jews. The media are not just mouthpieces for hamas terrorists but are themselves terrorists.
"It is staggering to watch institutions like the New York Times, BBC, and The Guardian broadcast inflammatory images without basic verification or context. They are the so-called arbiters of truth, pumping out disinformation to millions while abandoning the most elementary principles of journalism. It is systemic, widespread, and profoundly irresponsible".
Plenty of Jews believe the lie, too, Including my own kids. My son decided that "since there are two Israeli experts who think it is Genocide, it must be." The Left in Israel is actually saying these things. Besides not understanding how antisemitic propaganda (blood libel) works, do they not understand that what they are doing is being seen as a confession?
There is no lack of Jewish law firms all over the world. Publishing blood libels is an offense in most Democratic countries. It's high time to sue them through the ears 👂 for spreading false propaganda and hatred from their organizations.
The most unfortunate part is that today's libellers are historically illiterate. They don't know about medieval pogroms. They think the persecution of Jews began and ended with the Holocaust. This makes them different from medieval Jew-haters who operated within a tradition with which they were familiar. Modern Jew-haters don't understand the roots of their own hatred. Arguing with them is futilfe, as I realised when discussing the war with an ex-student. I mentioned the 1500+ years of persecution. She seized on this and started listing examples of "Palestinian" suffering, mockingly saying, "But 1500 years ago..." ("years ago" means something very different from what I had said, and suggests a one-time event). She was simply not at all interested in Jewish suffering. I ended the conversation but it depressed me considerably because I began to feel my posting or writing substacks may be pointless. It doesn't convince those who need to be convinced. I cling to the idea that quiet majorities, especially most Christians, are now not Jew-hating and are pro-Israel. This is a huge turn-around.
Thank you Lucy for an article well written and discussing a subject that most do not want to hear about. You do me and my generation honor by continuing to speak up after the past 55 years since I moved to Israel and most of my actual life. (which is alot longer :-) Sometimes I feel very much alone, even amongst some Jews in the western countries whose parents were not survivors of the Shoah, have never been through a war or have not been or lived in Israel. keep it up! My now, year old grandson (pictured) needs your voice so his life will not be marred by another round of viscious antisemitism and allegations that has plagued our people Israel for centuries. Todah!!!!
The Nazis also thought they were the good guys. Though when it came to killing Jews they still had some shame so they did try to hide it as much as possible. Today the west has embraced nazism and celebrate it. Why else would Hamas go pro October 7, but even more so why would the world simply shrug when shown the pictures.
I don't have any answers. But I have taken advantage of the 2nd amendment.
It's true. They did think they were acting in the best interests of Germany, Europe, and the world. We tend to forget that.
Hamas’ primary strategy of massacring Jews to whet the appetite of the antisemitic world, then maximizing civilian suffering to embolden the full flowering of millions’ most basest instincts - the hatred for the “collective Jew” - has been triumphantly vindicated beyond their wildest dreams.
If you’ve ever wondered how millions of seemingly ordinary people could have enabled centuries of vicious anti Jewish persecution, through the first pre Israel Holocaust and culminating in the Oct 7 massacres and beyond, now you know.
“They’re all lying?”
Yes, a thousand times yes, as hard as it is to believe: Yes, they all are lying—the UN and their NGOs, al-Jazeera and its Yemeni owners, the NYT and NPR and BBC etc and most of the global media orgs, the Palestinians and their backers, the Western campus-based Left, which is the great lie factory of our time. All of them have spent decades crafting a narrative where Israel is ALWAYS the guilty party, where its establishment and continued existence should be considered a crime and where peace would break out if only Israel put down its weapons—and absolutely nothing will make them change, question or surrender this narrative. At this point an entire anti-Israel Industrial Complex lives and feeds off this narrative and treats it like both sacred dogma and proprietary IP.
“Why are you bringing up Hamas?! This has nothing to do with Hamas!”
This shows how for Western liberals the Wretched of the Earth become for them either proxy infants and/or sacred cows and/or holy symbols to be worshipped. In this woman's mind Hamas exists outside agency or responsibility, they can never DO but only be DONE to, and they have no hand in creating their situation, all blame lies with the evil white (in this case Jewish) oppressor. For them, blaming Hamas is like blaming a toddler when everything is the parents' fault. Hamas is the new BLM for the Western Left, the latest trendy sacred cause that allows them to preen and parade their exalted compassion and enlightened morality. That's why the woman screamed so much: you were insulting her precious angel!
I like that line “Hamas or the Palestinians are the new BLM!” And we all know … now.. what a fraud BLM was/is!!
Western liberalism has devolved into reflexive victim worship, a Passion Play written, produced and directed by bored secular bourgeois that allows them to feel like grand historical actors and righteous rebels without ever leaving their comfy homes and keyboards. This fetish/crusade has almost nothing to do with the supposed intended beneficiaries, who acquire a wholly symbolic existence, and whose welfare is secondary. The global "Free Palestine" movement has been a total disaster for the actual Palestinian people, who are indulged in their worst most deranged fantasies and ridiculous impossibilities like the "right of return", and are never nudged toward peace and sanity, as this would mean the show would be over. The worst thing that can happen to people is becoming a Cause, because then the Cause itself becomes more important than what and who it's supposed to represent.
These people are blind and senseless idiots. They are not looking for the truth, they are looking for justification of their useless cause!
In Architectures of Protection (!), the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria includes University of Victoria professor Beth Stuart’s antisemitic reflection on her sculptures in the show. In my view this is a serious lapse in the Gallery’s sense and responsibility. You can find my full analysis of Stuart’s work on yacowar.blogspot.com but here is a sample. Please pass it on because Facebook keeps cutting me.
Having carefully avoided mention of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion and slaughter of Israel, here Stuart revives the centuries-old blood libel against the Jews: They want to kill your children! Even when they don’t need Christian blood for their matzo.
She cites a presumably Jewish “pundit” on Israeli TV Channel 14 in an “early 2024…. clip… saying every Palestinian over the age of four years is a potential terrorist and a necessary target of war.” So her sculptures’ mesh bags are the size of a four-year-old child. That quoted statement does seem monstrous — until you recall its context.
First, to represent Israel she chose the right wing news, politics and satire channel that even in Israel is considered extremist. Second, she again omits the October 7 context. A Hamas spokesman flatly stated “There are no civilians in Israel” — i.e., only targets in war. Among their many child victims was one infant whom Hamas reportedly microwaved to death in front of its parents. When Stuart attributes this monstrous “morality” to Israel, she not only blames the victim but charges him.
Third, Stuart’s allegation of extreme child abuse actually is true — but is a charge properly laid against the Palestinians. As Hamas has militarized their hospitals, schools, playgrounds, mosques — thus inviting their wartime attack — they have even more callously weaponized their own children. Their martyrdom culture encourages and rewards the very deaths of their children that they then bewail and blame upon Israel. Parents send their children to summer day camps to train as soldiers. Their schools — abetted by the UNRWA — continue to teach their children to hate and to kill the Jews.
Golda Meir’s sad prophecy still holds: “We won’t have peace until the Palestinians decide they love their own children more than they hate us.” The West’s reflex to blame Israel for the Gaza children’s deaths only encourages that vile abuse to continue. As does Stuart.
I think Meir said "Arabs", not "Palestinians."
Correct
Outstanding article. Thank so much for helping me see what blood libel gone viral looks like and how powerful it is.
Yes, of course every day the evil IDF, in cold blood, shoots scores of Gazans at food aid depots. Really? The BBC keeps reporting it, so surely it must be true.
Ah,the Biased Broadcasting Company(for which I must - yes, legally, MUST - pay @£170 yearly… the law if you have a tv)…
At some point we are going to need to pivot from analyzing the Islamist blood libels to ensuring they dont get a larger foothold in the West. CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood must be labeled as terror adjacent groups and all funding must be outlawed. In otherwords we need to shift from defense to offense and fast!
Certainly logic won't do it. Their world is divided between those who are deeply evil and the majority who are ignorant dupes. They are lost. They all have to be fought not reasoned with.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your essay, Lucy Tabrizi. Agree with much of what has been already said in prior comments.
It is a huge waste of time arguing with these illiterate people (who know little of geography, history or the current conflict.) I’ve been called all sorts of names right here on Substack (and have reported them and blocked them as well.)
I do recommend for you and other readers to read the Voice of Zion (Yonah E’s essay) entitled “I will Stop Arguing with Antisemites and Reclaim my Dignity” right here on Substack on Aug 6, 2025 (10:01pm) PST
Your friends are Purely Projecting their unadmitted and unadmittable racism, onto ‘the out group’, which is and always has been The Jewish People. Here in the UK the mass media too is silent about the racism which is driving the anti-migrant protests and riots happening here this summer: The Same double think process is happening here: All brilliantly documented in George Orwell’s 1984. So Stay strong, Israel. The Red Orchestra is now the puppet of the Black-Fascist Antisemitic Nazi teams running some of the News Rooms here in The West. It is noted that Russia has the same problem with these State Nazi teams who started the Ukraine War in 2014 with the mass murder of Ethnic Russians in The Donbas.
At first I liked it because the gist about fascists, Nazis and anti-Semites is correct. Then I read about the "murder of ethnic Russians" in Donbass, and removed the like.
Completely opposite processes and problems.
Victor, I understand your hesitation, but we are correct I assure you. We are a group of British monitors who have watched a very highly-placed Nazi organisation in the Security Services operating out of London and Berlin. They have been outed. These Nazis have re-formed The Nazi Party. They kicked off the Ukraine War in 2014: all this is monitored and in the record and in the bag, and the full details are with the Authorities in London and the USA. They have also been caught organising antisemitism here about the Gaza War, in The West. All this has been monitored too.
I don't want to disappoint you and question your work. I am sure that you have done a great job. Most likely, it is a matter of understanding the processes.
I have been observing what is happening in Ukraine from the very beginning. And the tendencies towards Russia's seizure of power in Ukraine and expansion since about 2007.
I am an Israeli, and with a group of Israelis interested in the situation, I also analyzed the situation. In addition, I myself am an ethnic Russian from Ukraine and I have many sources in Ukraine. In addition, I served in the Soviet army, and then in the Russian army for a total of more than 18 years and I have many sources in Russia. I have been tracking this entire conflict in real time, and the fact that dozens of people did this together with me gives me complete confidence in thinking that I understand the situation.
The only question here is which side to be on. If you think that Nazis are those who do not want a neighboring state to dictate its terms, impose a puppet regime and turn the country into a resource enclave, then you simply accept the point of view of Russian propaganda. But you can look at it differently.
The issue of Ukrainian anti-Semitism has nothing to do with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and it is very incorrect to discuss it in this context.
All you say might be true. But the fact remains that German backed Neo-Nazi militias, supported by the team we have monitored here in London, started the campaign of ethnic Murder in The Donbas in 2014. This has been monitored and verified. European security services as they always do then covered for these Neo-Nazis. It is a disgrace and we have said so.
Once again, I don't doubt your observations, but in any case, the example of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the context of this topic is not suitable.
Considering that Russia itself is an aggressor and a very nationalistic chauvinistic country, and one that is anti-Israeli, it is incorrect to refer to it as a "victim of ethnic cleansing".
Do not confuse Russian Chauvinism and Russian Antisemitism, whilst true, with the new facts. Ethnic cleansing against Ethnic Russians from 2014 by Nazi paramilitaries has been verified. This is now fact. It was and is being carried out by the Nazi militias organised from here in Europe. And the same Six team has organised the Hate campaign against Jews here. All monitored.
If they are sharing these images and memes they are most certainly NOT good people.
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"Every share, every slander disguised as activism, every time good people stay silent, it normalises real-world violence, just as the blood libel always has".
Much worse than irresponsible, it is evil and purposefully done to incite hatred and murderous violence against Jews. The media are not just mouthpieces for hamas terrorists but are themselves terrorists.
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"It is staggering to watch institutions like the New York Times, BBC, and The Guardian broadcast inflammatory images without basic verification or context. They are the so-called arbiters of truth, pumping out disinformation to millions while abandoning the most elementary principles of journalism. It is systemic, widespread, and profoundly irresponsible".
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Plenty of Jews believe the lie, too, Including my own kids. My son decided that "since there are two Israeli experts who think it is Genocide, it must be." The Left in Israel is actually saying these things. Besides not understanding how antisemitic propaganda (blood libel) works, do they not understand that what they are doing is being seen as a confession?
There is no lack of Jewish law firms all over the world. Publishing blood libels is an offense in most Democratic countries. It's high time to sue them through the ears 👂 for spreading false propaganda and hatred from their organizations.