The Genocide of Truth.

What We’re Witnessing Isn’t Just Antisemitism — It’s Semantic Warfare

We’re living in a time when compassion has all but vanished from public discourse.

My best self was shaped by a mom who raised me right. Loving, attentive, a great cook, wise, and hilarious. She didn’t read bedtime stories like Where the Wild Things Are. Instead, I got vivid, horrifying tales of how she survived the Vilna Ghetto, Dachau, and the Death March.

Ah yes, the Holocaust — the perfect send-off to slumberland — which left me terrified to whisper: “Now I lay me down to sleep.” Because instead of counting sheep, don’t ask what visions were bounding over barbed wire fences in my head.

Today, when I hear people invoke the word Holocaust — not to describe the one my mother (and father, I might add) actually survived, but to frame what happened in Gaza — I lose it. Not just because it’s a bridge too far — because it’s giving, “I’ve got a bridge to sell you.” And may a pox fall on your house.

The issue isn’t that you’re comparing apples to apples — it’s that you’re comparing real apples to those plastic ones sitting on your grandma’s dining room table in a cut-glass bowl under a doily. It’s a pathetic ploy to keep the overhyped Gaza conflict alive, so that your mean-spirited, Holocaust-denying, Free Palestiners can keep marching, chanting, and stinking up our peaceful streets.

Truth is, my mother’s toe-curling horror stories are what ultimately made me so deeply sympathetic to human suffering and injustice — for all people. Since grade school, I’ve marched and spoken out: against the Vietnam War, for women’s rights, civil rights (I was bussed to an all-Black high school), gay rights, access to AIDS medication, the Gulf War, Ukraine…the list goes on. I even stood in solidarity with the Muslim community when Trump slammed the US border shut during his first presidency.

So yes, I know who I am. But do these clowns who’ve hijacked the democrat party have a single solitary clue as to what they truly stand for anymore? Don’t bother answering — we both know the answer is no.

[SIDEBAR] I’ve stopped calling “it” the democratic party because “it” no longer is — and yes, I’m intentionally not capitalizing the words either, out of disrespect for a party that betrayed and abandoned me. How many dems did NOT vote for Kamala?

Which brings us to the sadly never-ending Israel and Palestine catastrophe. No matter whose side you think I’m on, I still believe in a two-state solution and mourn the innocent lives lost on both sides. My deepest empathy begins — and ends — with my own people because I cannot fathom history repeating itself. What happened to my parents — the murder of their entire families — must never happen again. Not while I breathe air.

Yes, the suffering of Palestinians is real and unfortunate. But their suffering has been hijacked. Twisted by Hamas into a toxic narrative of staged footage, moral blackmail, and outright lies. And the world eats it up. The media is complicit and has more blood on their hands than any member of the IDF. There’s no scrutiny. No hard questions. No corroborating proof for half the shit they spew — even after facts on the ground have been proven false. It’s all just propaganda served on a silver platter of guilt.

“Guilt” — now there’s a word tattooed on the Jewish psyche. Alongside Holocaust and Genocide. Words forged in the fire—and fury—of our trauma. And yet here we are, in Bizarro World, watching Hamas spin those very terms into their own twisted anthem.

They’ve now hijacked our grief. And the world — deaf, dumb, and blind — bends the knee. Fawning over terrorists, swallowing their lies. Sympathizing with the devil. And as for those who call Hamas freedom fighters? They’re tragically misinformed, brainwashed, and helping perpetrate one of the most egregious frauds in modern history. It’s not resistance. It’s an orchestrated pity party. A global gaslight. And the world’s lapping it up like rabid dogs.

[SIDEBAR] This is a warning: if I see even one “Gaza Holocaust Museum” open anywhere in the world—don’t.

They Hijacked Our Words — And We Let Them.

Words like occupation, resistance, apartheid, refugee, genocide, and Holocaust have been twisted in real time to erase moral clarity. And the worst part? Too many well-meaning Jews—desperate to be liked—have gone along with it.

Even in the propaganda machine we now call the Oscars and the Sundance Film Festival, Palestinian suffering is staged with cinematic precision—while Israeli trauma is left on the cutting-room floor. As HonestReporting recently pointed out, films like The Voice of Hind Rajab are part of a rising genre that uses the moral language of historical atrocity to elevate one side of the conflict while erasing the other. The danger? These distortions don’t just win awards—they outlive the war, shaping public memory for generations.

The genocide isn’t just in Gaza. It’s happening to our memory, through our language.

The Truth Is on Trial — And the Evidence Is In

My friend Orly Ravid lays it out in her law review article Truth on Trial: Media Malpractice in Israel/Gaza Coverage, showing how the media and global institutions didn’t just fall for the lie—they helped script it.

She explains how “genocide” has become a political weapon—severed from its legal definition under the UN Genocide Convention and reduced to an emotional trigger. Calling Israel’s actions genocide, she writes, “distorts both history and law,” cheapening a term born from the extermination of Jews.

Orly shows how activist scholars erased the requirement of intent to destroy a people, instead equating wartime civilian casualties with extermination. This allows the media to treat Israel’s very existence as a crime, not just its defense. Even academia, NGOs, and journalists now parrot this fiction—branding Israel genocidal without a shred of legal grounding.

Let’s hear it for the truth — which is why we can’t — and I surely — won’t be silent.

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