Let’s take the charge of “genocide” made not just by such obvious antisemites as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN’s Special Rapporteur for Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, but now, as well, by such people as Israeli writer David Grossman. Grossman is a writer; he should be vigilant in his use […]
What Leftist Israeli Novelist David Grossman Calls ‘Occupation’ Is Nothing of the Sort
Israeli novelist David Grossman has, in the teeth of the evidence, leveled the charge of “genocide” at his own country: “Israeli author David Grossman says his country is committing genocide in Gaza,” by Lorenzo Tondo, Guardian, August 1, 2025: Grossman’s comments come days after two major Israeli rights groups said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, […]
Virtue-Signaling Israeli Novelist Clutches His Forehead and Charges His Country with ‘Genocide’
So many are now jumping on the “genocide” juggernaut — “Israel is committing genocide” — lest they be left behind in the virtue-signaling. There’s Jeremy Ben-Ami, the head of J Street, a far-left Jewish group that berates the Jewish state whenever it can. He’s unsurprisingly on board: Days after rejecting the claim that Israel is […]