Israel has hardly responded at all so far. It is clearly gearing up to do so. But already the anti-Semites in our midst – all hiding behind “support for the Palestinian cause” – have made the usual blood libels against the Jews.
When a hospital in Gaza was said to have been attacked, everyone from the First Minister of Scotland to Labour MPs and
the BBC all jumped to the conclusion that it was an Israeli war crime.
They claimed that hundreds of people had been killed – including hundreds of children. The BBC (which has the temerity to have a “verification” and “fact-checking” department) pumped out this fake news. In medieval times, anti-Semites accused the Jews of poisoning the wells. In our own times, the BBC and others do what Jewish people were accused of.
As anyone who has ever covered a conflict should know, you wait when an event like this occurs. Sure enough, we now know that, firstly, it was the hospital car park that was hit. And second that it was probably a hit from a Palestinian rocket which “misfired”.