The Trump-brokered plan might bring calm to Israel & Gaza — but only truth can make it last. Anti-Zionism is the lie that promises endless war.

This year, when I re-entered the world’s noise, I was met not with relief but with sorrow.

It’s hard to overstate how reckless, unserious, and corrosive this claim is — not just for Israel, but for the meaning of the word “genocide” and the principle that nations have a right to defend themselves.

At its core, this narrative is nothing new. It’s the recycling of one of the oldest antisemitic tropes: that Jews secretly pull the strings of governments.

Good intentions should not blur moral clarity.

This is not a famine born of Israeli tactics. It’s a campaign orchestrated by Hamas—enabled by a credulous press and institutions like the BBC and New York Times.

It is a gift to terrorism, an insult to international law, a betrayal of France’s own long-standing commitment to “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” and democracy itself.

No other recipient of U.S. aid matches Israel’s record of delivering measurable, lasting value to America.

Anywhere else, kidnapping babies and massacring families would be universally condemned—except when the victims are Jewish Israelis. Then, excuses and rationalizations abound.