by Edmund Fitton-Brown, Telegraph
An absurd report claiming that Israel has committed genocide is the latest example
The United Nations has taken its unhealthy obsession with Israel to a new extreme, with the claim by an independent UN commission that it deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza. This update on the ancient anti-Semitic trope of Jews murdering babies is now endorsed by the UN’s so-called Commission of Inquiry in their latest report.
A cursory glance at their findings reveals a striking absence of empirical evidence to substantiate their most explosive claims. Instead, they appear to rely on anecdotes elevated into proof, inference transformed into certainty, and allegations repeated so often they masquerade as facts.
The Commission points to the number of Palestinian children killed during the war and assumes intent. It cites the use of large munitions in densely populated areas apparently as proof that children were the target, rather than acknowledging the reality that Hamas deliberately embedded itself within civilian areas in order to use the people of Gaza, including children, as human shields.
As has been the practice in much Western media coverage throughout the conflict that Hamas initiated with the Oct 7 massacre, the BBC breathlessly reported it, without mentioning until paragraph eight that the body’s three-person panel “does not officially speak for the UN”.
The old Carl Sagan axiom – extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence – appears lost on the panel. The report claims that Israel targeted Palestinian children in Gaza directly by shooting at their vital organs using precision weapons, such as quadcopter drones (yes, really) and snipers, and by using high-impact weapons in strikes on residential buildings, schools, and displacement camps crowded with children.
And yet, despite being the most broadcast war of all time, the evidence that is actually provided for such bold claims is extraordinarily thin. Of course, for the usual suspects, this is enough: there’s nothing so devilish about the Jewish state that they won’t swallow it.