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Commentary: Stop the global gaslighting of Jews and Israel

A demonstrator holds a placard reading "Me Too equals Jewish Too" during a rally in London on Dec. 3, 2023, to protest against what they consider a conspiracy of silence over alleged rapes and other sexual crimes committed by Hamas militants during the Oct. 7 attacks.

Two months after the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Israel’s well-documented reports of the atrocities of Oct. 7 continue to be questioned and even outright rejected as falsehoods.

Despite video evidence — recorded by the terrorists themselves — Hamas apologists continue to deny the killing of babies and the rape of women.

Opinion pages and social media have been rife with condescension. People somehow feel comfortable telling Jews that calling for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state isn’t antisemitic, that antisemitic terrorism is actually resistance and that Jews provoked the slaughter of more than a

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