Gaza: starved of the Truth

 An unprecedented media and political campaign has been launched, to persuade everybody that Israel is deliberately starving innocent Gazans – men, women and especially children.  The drumbeat is so intense because it aims to drown out everything else – especially the Truth.  And it mostly does.

The photos of Israeli hostages starved by Hamas did not make it to the cover of New York Times or The Guardian...

As usual, the lies are monochromatic and simple to grasp; the truth is complex and uncomfortable.  But that’s no reason to fall for the lies.  Choose the truth.  Here it is.

Question: Is there famine in Gaza?

Short answer: no.  This isn’t an opinion, but a fact that even the BBC was forced to admit, just a few days ago:

“Global food security experts have not yet classified the situation in Gaza as a famine, but UN agencies have warned of man-made, mass starvation taking hold.”

Long answer: ‘Famine’ is not a metaphor, but a well-defined phenomenon.  The international body that defined ‘Famine’ and put itself in charge of declaring it boasts the catchy name of Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).  These are the “[g]lobal food security experts” that the BBC refers to.  The BBC report above is deliberately worded to give the impression that the “[g]lobal food security experts” are different from “UN agencies”.  In reality, the IPC functions as an arm of the United Nations.  Several UN agencies are part of the IPC ecosystem, as are several charities and governmental agencies.  As a result, IPC (which was born out of the best humanitarian intentions) has gradually been politicised.  But, to try and balance the various interests, while also striving to preserve some credibility, the IPC structure includes the so-called Famine Review Committee.  The FRC is (at least in theory) made up of independent experts and acts as a sort of auditor, reviewing IPC-issued classifications.

To make things even more confusing, several other bodies may declare Famine in a territory, based on IPC methodology.  Nobody accredited them to do that, but they do it anyway and the FRC tends to agree with these assessments – unless they are too far fetched.  Such a situation occurred in 2024: in May that year, one of the bodies supporting the IPC ‘determined’ that there was Famine in the Gaza Strip; but in June the FRC disagreed:

“The FRC does not find the . . . analysis plausible given the uncertainty and lack of convergence of the supporting evidence employed in the analysis.”

The IPC/FRC system does two things:

1. Assesses & classifies the current situation;
2. Produces a forecast for the next period.

As mentioned above, currently the situation in Gaza is not classified as famine.  The IPC did issue a forecast on 12 May 2025, warning of “critical risk of Famine” in the next period (April-September 2025).  The document goes on to explain that, from 11 March 2025 (when the Israel-Hamas ceasefire collapsed), the territory had been under a complete blockade:

“Over 60 days have passed since all humanitarian aid and commercial supplies were blocked from entering the territory.  Goods indispensable for people’s survival are either depleted or expected to run out in the coming weeks.”

The “[g]oods” referred above were those provided during the ceasefire, when massive amounts of aid had been delivered into the Strip.  Israel claimed that much of that aid was stashed away by Hamas; it wanted it returned to and consumed by the population before any additional supplies were delivered.

“[C]ritical risk of Famine” means ‘currently there is no Famine, but there very likely will be in the future, unless something is done about it’.  But something was done about it: starting from 18 May 2025 (just a few days after the IPC forecast was issued) aid deliveries to Gaza resumed.  According to Israeli reports quoted (i.e., not disputed) by the IPC, almost 20,000 metric tonnes of food were delivered between 19 and 31 May 2025, followed by close to 38,000 metric tonnes in June and 32,600 between 1 and 23 July.

Yet on 29 July 2025, the IPC issued an ‘Alert’ entitled: “Worst-case scenario of Famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip”.

Most media outlets reported the title above (and embellished it), but without providing a link to the document itself.  So most people have no way to know that this does not mean that there is currently famine in the Gaza Strip.

Just after the ominous title, the document (designed as an infographic) explains:

“According to IPC protocols, an Alert does not classify areas or provide population estimates and does not constitute a Famine classification. [emphasis added]”

Unlike IPC Assessments and Forecasts (which must be based on rigorous scientific data and are reviewed by the FRC), Alerts are political advocacy documents.  They can and often do rely on fishy sources – in this case ‘data’ from the Hamas-run ‘Health Ministry’ in Gaza.  Indeed, the ‘Alert’ states:

“The IPC Global Initiative is issuing this Alert based on the latest evidence available until 25 July to draw urgent attention to the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, following the IPC analysis published in May 2025, which detected a risk of Famine.”

In other words, the Alert isn’t based on any new analysis (the latest analysis was the one published in May, before the resumption of aid), but on “evidence available”; which, as the rest of the document shows, is the ‘evidence’ supplied by the Hamas ministry.

The purpose of Forecasts is to establish a scientific basis for action; the purpose of Alerts is “to draw urgent attention” – i.e. advocacy.

But let’s have a closer look at what the IPC is saying: they use rather convoluted phrases such as “Famine unfolding” and “Famine is currently playing out”.  Isn’t this strange?  Why not simply state ‘there is terrible Famine in the Gaza Strip’?

Well, even when engaging in political advocacy, a body like IPC cannot be caught lying.  And stating outright that there is currently Famine in Gaza would be an obvious lie – one contradicting IPC’s own classification.  Hence, they use ambiguous phrases: “unfolding” and “playing out” can be said to refer to the future (they both mean ‘gradually developing’).  At the same time, many people will read them as meaning ‘there’s famine now’.  So the IPC gets effective advocacy without severe loss of credibility: they’re not lying – just misleading.

Additional information: Famine should not be used as a metaphor – it’s a well-defined situation on the ground.

So, if there is currently no Famine declared in the Gaza Strip, why do so many media outlets say there is?  How can they get away with a lie?

Well, just like the IPC, they don’t ‘technically’ lie – they just deceive.

On 21 July 2025, in the course of just 8 hours of ‘live reporting’ on Gaza, the BBC News website printed the term ‘famine’ 3 times.  But, technically, the BBC did not claim that there was famine.  Rather, they quoted ‘sources’ making that claim.  For instance:

“A 15-year-old girl at Shifa says there is a ‘severe and devastating famine in Gaza’"

The other two BBC reports of famine were attributed to unspecified“[l]ocal residents” and to the UN agency World Food Programme (WFP).  The latter claimed “Gaza is facing famine-like conditions”.  “[F]amine-like”, by the way, is a simile – not a metaphor…

Google ‘what is a simile?’ and find out that it means

“a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion).”

So “famine-like” does not mean Famine, just as “brave like a lion” does not mean the subject is actually a lion.  It's "a figure of speech"...

But most people browsing the news (as most people do, rather than dissecting the meaning as I do) will mentally associate ‘Gaza’ with ‘famine’ and, of course, blame Israel for it.

The IPC, the WFP, the BBC all understand this; they know that there is no Famine in Gaza.  They use ‘famine’ not as a statement of fact, but as a rhetorical cudgel.  They do this because they are, essentially, political activists.  And many political activists are, unfortunately, fundamentally dishonest: they feel that the ‘noble cause’ they strive for justify a few ignoble means – such as being rather ‘liberal’ with the truth.

But corrupting the truth is never a good thing: by giving the false impression that there is Famine when there isn’t, these activists gradually erode their own credibility – and that of the outfits that employ them.  With the ultimate outcome that they won’t be believed when they do report the truth – like the proverbial boy who cried ‘Wolf!’

And there’s something else, as well: by focusing so much attention on Gaza, the activists deny it (along with donations and other resources) to places that are in even direr need.

Following analysis conducted in July 2024, on 1 August that year the IPC declared Famine in parts of Sudan.  By December, it found that Famine was persisting in those places and had expanded to at least 10 additional areas, with 17 others at high risk.

Unlike in Gaza, in Sudan there is Famine, with capital ‘F’: the real thing, not the metaphor.

The Famine in Sudan is the direct consequence of the civil war raging in that country.  C. 9 million people have been displaced; people are unable to gather the crops on which they depend for nourishment.  The warring armed factions have plundered international aid and prevented it from reaching those in need.

BBC News reported on the Famine in Sudan – but only sporadically, in a handful of items spread over several months.  So did other Western media outlets.  There was none of the obsessive fascination with Gaza.  As a consequence, the Famine continues unabated in Sudan, with people dying like flies.

Question: Hold on – I saw with my own eyes on Twitter images of emaciated children, little kids reduced to skin and bones.  Are you saying that those images are not genuine?

Short answer: Even when they are genuine, those photos are fundamentally dishonest.  Those children are wasting away because of disease, not lack of food.

Long answer: Some are not, but others are genuine in the sense that they show actual children from Gaza.  Take for instance this one, published by the BBC on 25 July 2025.  Attributed to Reuters but reproduced by many media outlets (let alone on social media), this is a powerful image, deliberately designed to resemble Madonna with Child.  Christian imagery aside, the vast majority of human beings will be touched by this picture of an obviously starving child – bones sticking out of his pale-bluish skin.  But, before we rage against Israeli inhumanity, let’s read the picture’s caption:

“Samah Matar holds her malnourished son Youssef, who suffers from cerebral palsy, at a school where they are sheltering in Gaza City”

Then let’s ask Google:

“Is starvation associated with Cerebral Palsy?”

Wonders of technology: these days the search engine comes with Artificial Intelligence capabilities.  In less than two seconds, it ‘read’ thousands of scientific articles, returning the following summary:

“Yes, malnutrition and starvation are significant concerns for individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). Children with CP are at a higher risk of malnutrition due to various factors including feeding difficulties, increased energy expenditure, and underlying medical conditions.”

Clearly, it was the disease and not just shortage of food that caused Youssef Matar to look so pitifully emaciated.  One of those diseases that… you know… can’t really be blamed on the Jews.

Some would say that, at least, the BBC had the decency to disclose that little Youssef suffered from cerebral palsy.  But why use that photo in the first place in the context of ‘starvation’ in Gaza?  Most people won’t investigate; they will see the heartbreaking picture and believe it to be the result of Israeli policies, not of a terrible disease.

Little Youssef’s case is by no means the exception: the picture of another little boy is – if possible – even more tragic.  It went viral on social media in mid-July 2025, posted, reposted and commented on (initially, at least) by accounts boasting Iranian flags.  Official Israeli sources identified him as 5-year-old Osama al-Rakab.  Little Osama, who suffers from a serious genetic disease, is no longer in Gaza.  The same Israeli source (COGAT) reports:

“On June 12, we actively coordinated Osama's exit from Gaza with his mother and brother through the Ramon airport.  He is now receiving treatment in Italy.”

And more: on 21 July 2025, the New York Times published the picture of 3-year-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq: another hauntingly thin child, also portrayed in his mother’s arms, in the same Madonna-with-Child pose.  The original photos published by a Turkish media outlet featured in the background the child’s slightly older brother, who looked perfectly normal; but the NYT cropped the brother out of the picture…  Why let such details interfere with a good story?

The BBC did one better: they didn’t ‘just’ publish the photo – they proceeded to interview the photographer, who suggested the photo was representative of the widespread starvation of children in the Gaza Strip.

And it’s not just the NYT and the BBC – the photo appeared in the CNN, NBC News, The Guardian, The Daily Mail…  And no journalist wondered: if this is representative of Gaza’s children, how come we are being sent photos of the same child?

A few days later, it was revealed that little Muhammad Zakariya suffers from a series of severe genetic disorders…

Left: the photo of 3-year-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq (left) and his mother, in a ‘Madonna with Child’-like composition. Right: the same child, who (it turns out) suffers from severe genetic disorders, next to his slightly older brother, who looks perfectly normal.

Unfortunately, in Gaza – as elsewhere – there are some very sick children.  No doubt, war and all the associated hardship makes their situation even worse.  But using those pictures to ‘exemplify’ the starvation of Gaza’s children is dishonest and calumniatory.

Question: And what about the reports that each day Gazans die of malnutrition? Sure, they come from the Hamas-run health ministry.  But are they mere inventions?

Short answer: Again, we are talking about people who died of disease, not starvation.  Their sickness may or may not have been made worse by the general scarcity and hardship caused by the war.

Long answer: Let’s pay attention to the terminology.  Gaza’s health ministry does not actually claim that these people starved to death.  Such a claim would be easy to verify by any pathologist.  No, the official phrasing (not always reproduced as such by the Western media) is that they “died as a result of malnutrition”.  That’s different.  Even in the midst of a terrible war, people die not because they’re shot or blown to pieces and not because they starve to death, but because of unrelated disease.  In some cases, poor nutrition may worsen the disease and bring about or hasten death.  This is what Hamas is claiming: that given a better nutrition these people would not have died of disease (or at least, not in the short term).  Such a claim cannot be verified.  Even if the bodies could be independently examined (but they generally aren’t available for such examination), it is very difficult to determine whether better nutrition would have been sufficient to ensure survival or to prolong life.

One thing is sure: these fatalities – alongside everybody else that died of natural causes in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023 – will be counted among the victims of ‘Israeli aggression’.

Question: So are you claiming that everything is fine?  There’s no hunger, no malnutrition, no suffering, it’s all propaganda and fabrication?

Short answer: No, that’s not what I claim at all.  Gazans are not starving to death, but they experience hunger, disease and horrendous hardship.

Long answer: Starvation means that people do not get enough food to keep them alive in the short term.  Famine means widespread starvation.  That’s by-and-large what happens in Sudan, not in Gaza.

Malnutrition, on the other hand, means bad or improper nutrition.  A person can survive for a long time by eating relatively small amounts of concentrated food: bread, rice, pasta, beans or lentils…  But that’s still malnutrition, because bread, rice, pasta, beans and lentils do not provide all the nutrients that she needs to be healthy.  Malnutrition is currently widespread in the Gaza Strip.  People get enough to stay alive – but they do not get good, proper nutrition.

Additional information: Listening to the BBC and other mainstream media these days, one might think that malnutrition (especially child malnutrition) is a rare phenomenon.  In fact, it is widespread, even outside the context of war.

According to the UNICEF, at least 77 million children in the Arab world suffer from some form of malnutrition.  Even in a rich country like the UK, food poverty causes significant numbers of children to be malnourished.  A 2017 report by The Food Foundation found that “one in 10 children [in the UK] are living with adults who report experiencing severe food insecurity”.

Question: OK, so why doesn’t Israel just open the Gaza border crossings to aid, as much as the UN and others wish to bring in?  Why limit it to the bare minimum?  Why would Israel care if civilians get plenty of food?

Short answer: Because it is impossible to supply the population with everything they need, while also fighting Hamas.  The two activities are incompatible: the logistics of aid delivery at such a scale simply preclude military operations in that territory.

Long answer: Israel’s standard response to the question above is to blame Hamas for stealing aid.  Deliberately denying basic sustenance to the civilian population is a war crime; denying it to the enemy is a legitimate war strategy.  Hence, claim the Israelis, the supply of aid needs to be tightly controlled, to deny it to Hamas and the other terror organisations.

But does Hamas really steal aid?  Western media outlets habitually cast doubt on this (as they do with most other Israeli claims).  The BBC, for instance, states:

“Israel has said an alternative to the current aid system is needed to stop Hamas stealing aid, which the group denies doing.”

And also:

“Israel claims that Hamas stole aid from the UN system. The UN says it is still waiting for the Israelis to back their claims with evidence.”

The BBC, it turns out, continues to promote those doubts, despite the fact that Israeli claims were corroborated by Gazans.  Buried deep inside a video report by BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Paul Adams (a video that is generally very critical of Israel), one finds the following little nugget:

“But Hamas took control of some of the newly arrived goods.  That’s not just an Israeli allegation.  Our own sources inside Gaza have confirmed it.”

This must be blindingly true – if even the BBC let it slip out.  But – I’m afraid – it’s not the entire truth.

Here’s the unpleasant reality: in places like Gaza, it is impossible to starve out Hamas without starving the entire civilian population.  Sure, there are a few terror leaders that may be hiding in tunnels.  But the typical foot soldier (whether Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Mujahideen Brigades, etc.) is indistinguishable from the rest of the population.  That foot soldier seldom resides in tunnels or in paramilitary bases.  When he is not digging out his weapon to try and kill or kidnap an Israeli soldier, he spends his time at home, with wife, kids and often an extended family: brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles, nephews and nieces…  So how exactly can one feed the wife and kids, but not the terrorist husband and father?

It cannot be done – and that’s not really what Israel is trying to do.  Hamas cannot be starved out of Gaza.  But, the terrorists want to do more than eating: if left to its own devices, Hamas would like to control the distribution of aid as a means of maintaining its power over the population of Gaza.

Separating Hamas from its tools of power – not the physical elimination of every single terror operative, nor the complete dismantlement of Islamism as an idea – is what Israel is trying to achieve in Gaza.  Failing in that endeavour would mean that Hamas remained in power in Gaza for the foreseeable future; which would constitute a clear victory for Hamas and an obvious defeat for Israel – however many foot soldiers the IDF ‘eliminates’.

Israeli leaders actually say all this, but not quite as loud and clear; because it is not 100% clear that, in the cold eyes of ‘international jurists’ long-detached from the realities of war, this would constitute a ‘legal’ reason for the tight control of aid.

But even this is not the entire or main reason for limiting aid.  True, Israel must deny Hamas control of the aid distribution; but it could conceivably (albeit with a lot of extra risk, effort and expense) allow more aid in – and still attempt to eliminate Hamas from the supply chain.

But there’s something else here – something that ‘people in the know’ understand, but they’re hiding from you.  The truth is that, in a situation like Gaza, it not possible to keep the population supplied with all the life’s necessities – while also prosecuting the war against Hamas.

It needs to be understood: Supplying 2,000,000 people to the level that the UN and others demand would be a gigantic logistic operation.  The issue is not lorries being allowed into Gaza – that’s just one small step in a long journey; the much larger problem is aid distribution inside the Strip.  In contrast to the US/Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the philosophy of UN agencies and of the various charities involved in Gaza is that aid needs to be brought to the aided.  That means that the lorries need to travel in many different directions.  They need to take their cargo to warehouses and from there to many hundreds of distribution centres, bakeries and community kitchens.  All that on roads and in areas that must be ‘deconflicted’ (i.e., free of Israeli troops and away from IDF military operations).  If they are not completely ‘deconflicted’, then the result is (as we’ve seen in the past) aid convoys that are either caught in the crossfire or inadvertently attacked.

The UN claims that it needs more than 600 truckloads of aid a day.  It’s a lie; but even if the number were 100, distributing that amount of aid translates into hundreds of truck journeys a day and hundreds of ‘deconflicted’ areas – all that in a territory just 41 kilometres (25 miles) long and 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide.  Roads the military would have to avoid, areas it would have to vacate… Such massive ‘deconfliction’ would not just hinder, but in practice completely paralyse Israeli combat operations.  Not so Hamas’s operations, of course: terrorists aren’t required to ‘deconflict’ anything.

Here's the naked truth that nobody wants to tell you: one can either fight a war in Gaza, or one can keep Gaza’s civilian population well-supplied with food, medicines and other necessities.  One or the other, but not both!

The UN and aid organisations claim that at least 600 truckloads a day must not just go in, but be distributed to the population of Gaza.

The ‘humanitarians’ understand this, as do politicians; which is why both categories of people so keenly advocate a ceasefire.  Even while continuing to bash the Jewish state for ‘not allowing more aid into Gaza’, they know that only when the fighting stops can the aid reach those in need, in sufficient volume and variety.  That’s why the IPC Alert doesn’t just say ‘let the aid get in’; no, the very first of its 5 ‘Recommended actions’ actually demands

“End hostilities: An immediate, unconditional, and sustained ceasefire is critical to reversing the catastrophic levels of human suffering.”

Of course, everyone understands that “sustained ceasefire” is a euphemism.  What the ‘humanitarians’ want is the end of the war, not a temporary ceasefire.  In that, their aims are completely aligned with those of Hamas.  But of course, ending the war and leaving Hamas in power in Gaza is something Israelis simply cannot afford to do: it wouldn’t just mean living in perpetuity with a sword hung over their collective neck – but also admitting a vulnerability that can only invite more attacks from additional enemies.

Question: So what’s the solution?  Are you saying that we must resign ourselves to seeing innocent people suffering and being killed?

Short answer: Unfortunately, innocents will always suffer and get killed in wars.  But it is possible to alleviate that suffering and starkly reduce the number of innocent casualties.

The first step is, simply, to allow those innocents to escape; they are currently cynically trapped in a war zone.  Using a combination of political pressure and economic incentives, Egypt must be persuaded to allow unarmed Gazans to cross into Sinai, where well-organised refugee camps can be established, away from the rigours of war and with full access by aid organisations.

Long answer: Currently, the war in Gaza is the only armed conflict in recent history that civilians have been utterly prevented from fleeing.  While millions of Syrians found refuge in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and further afield, very few Gazans have managed to bribe their way into Egypt.  As I have shown in a previous article, this is a cynical ploy by Egypt and other Arab countries, who fear that allowing Gazans to leave would constitute the end of ‘the Palestinian cause’.  This isn’t surprising; in fact, it’s always been obvious that Arab dictators are very keen on ‘the Palestinian cause’, but don’t actually give a damn about Palestinians.

Even more outrageously, the ‘international community’ (including the likes of Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, as well as media outlets) seems to accept that ‘logic’.  How else can we explain that in 2022 the European Union and the UK opened their gates to c. 6 million Ukrainian refugees, but in 2023 they shut them to practically every Gazan wanting to escape the war?

But if a genocide is taking place in Gaza – as some people claim – then surely the priority should be to take those innocents outside the reach of the ‘genocidaire’ Israelis?  Do these people want to save the victims, or are they only interested in punishing the offenders?  If the latter, what does this tell us about their true motivations?

Yes, I know: nobody but fanatics and a handful of dupes actually believes in this tall ‘genocide’ story.  But, regardless, innocent people are getting killed – because they are forcibly kept inside a battlefield.  Why are they not allowed to escape?

Question: But it isn’t happening.  So I don’t understand how Israel hopes to achieve its goals in Gaza.  You’ve been fighting there for almost two years.  What are you hoping for now?

Short answer: Unsurprisingly, Israel hopes that ‘someone’ (preferably a ‘moderate’ Arab ‘someone’) will take Gaza off its hands, pacify and rebuild it.  Whether this is feasible and desirable is at this point unclear, but no other conceivable alternative promises to deliver what Israel wants: peace and quiet, at least in the medium term.

Long answer: Firstly, “it isn’t happening” because you put no pressure on your government to make it happen.  Rather than just wringing your hands about the suffering in Gaza and bashing Israel for it, you should demand that your government a) pressures Egypt into opening its border and allowing unarmed Gazans to take refuge in the Sinai Peninsula; b) takes in a reasonable number of Gazan refugees – just like it did with Ukrainian asylum-seekers.

Secondly, Israel hopes that at some point, confronted with this perpetual problem and under pressure to alleviate the suffering, a consortium of Arab countries will take over the governance of Gaza and its reconstruction.  Of course, all those countries currently say that they have no intention to do that.  But, as the Abraham Accords demonstrate, such vows are not set in stone.  Given a suitable pretext (for instance, saving the Palestinians from mass displacement and the end of their ‘cause’), the likes of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar may come to believe that they can ‘dress it up’ as a noble – and temporary – gesture.

Would that be a good solution?  I don’t know.  But, when it comes to the Palestinian issue, everybody is running out of ‘solutions’.  Israel has tried ‘benign occupation’; it has tried negotiations and accommodation; it tried unilateral withdrawal; it attempted to ‘manage’ the conflict without ‘solving’ it.  Nothing really worked so far.  In fact, all the ‘solutions’ ended in disaster.

The likes of Starmer and Macron are even worse: they don’t even try anything new – they cling to a ‘solution’ that the Palestinian Arabs have been rejecting for an entire century.  The only thing that changed in the meantime is that in the post-7 October era the vast majority of Israelis reject it, too.  So how do Starmer and Macron hope to achieve their ‘two state solution’?  No, reader, you don’t need to answer that.  It was a rhetorical question; we all know that Starmer and Macron don’t really believe in what they say.  They’d just say anything to get re-elected.

So they are terribly exercised by the rhetorical, yet-to-be-declared famine in Gaza, even while showing no interest in the real, duly declared Famine in Sudan.  That’s because these sleezy, weaselly and unscrupulous politicians have decided to ride the wave of antisemitism, rather than confronting it.

Some have compared this outburst of antisemitism to Germany in the early 1930s.  But a better analogy, I think, is turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe.

The anti-Israel campaign unfolding these days in Europe, Canada, Australia and sectors of the American society is reminiscent of czarist Russia.  Like there and then, it can only lead to pogrom.