Thursday, December 4, 2025

Answering the Libels (Part 1)

 The Colonizer Libel

The colonizer libel asserts that Zionism is a form of settler-colonialism — that Jews are foreign invaders in a land to which they have no organic connection. This libel erases the continuous, indigenous presence of Jews in the Land of Israel for millennia, the historic trauma of exile, and the deeply rooted religious and cultural longing for return that has animated Jewish thought, prayer, and life for two thousand years.

By recasting Jews as European colonists rather than a dispersed people reclaiming ancestral land, this libel turns Jewish history inside out. It treats the Jewish return not as decolonization — which it is — but as occupation. The goal is not to critique Israeli policy; it is to de-indigenize Jews, severing their historical legitimacy and recasting their very presence as a crime.

Learn more:

a)     Keep Digging: How Archaeology Debunks the “Israel as Colonizer” Libel – HonestReporting

b)    UN Called Out: Natasha Hausdorff Exposes Libel Against Israel – YouTube

The Genocide Libel

The genocide libel accuses Israel of systematically attempting to annihilate the Palestinian people — a charge that is grotesquely false and historically obscene. It exploits the vocabulary of Jewish trauma to reverse moral polarity, casting Jews as Nazis and Palestinian violence as resistance. This libel is not grounded in demography, fact, or law — Palestinian populations in both Gaza and the West Bank have steadily grown. It is grounded in the deliberate inversion of Holocaust memory.

By accusing Jews of genocide, the libel does two things: it erases Jewish victimhood (including ongoing Israeli civilian deaths) and reimagines Jewish survival as mass murder. It is an emotional and symbolic assault designed to place Israel — and by extension, Zionism — beyond the bounds of redemption, diplomacy, or peace.

Learn more:

§  Isn’t There a Genocide of Palestinians? – Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)

§  Amnesty’s Disgraceful Genocide Slander Against Israel Disqualifies the Group – JNS


 Hamas’ October 7th Genocide: Legal Analysis and the Weaponisation of Reverse Accusations – A  Study in Modern Genocide Recognition and Denial

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