The Israeli Embassy released a document debunking the libels. The media ignored it.

Manufacturing a Modern Blood Libel is a booklet published by the Israeli Embassy in Washington (May 2026), with a foreword by Ambassador Yechiel Leiter. Its central claim is structural: the accusations of genocide, starvation, and ethnic cleansing leveled against Israel during the Gaza war are not the product of honest reporting gone wrong but a modern iteration of the blood libel—an old antisemitic mechanism in which an accusation requires only repetition and institutional endorsement, not truth, to become lethal.

Leiter's foreword anchors the argument in a November 2025 meeting with the New York Times editorial board, where an editor protested that "everyone can't be getting the story all wrong." His answer, and the booklet's thesis, is that the story traveled through a coordinated ecosystem: Hamas manufactures data, UN agencies launder it into authoritative-sounding citations, media amplify it as independent fact, and academics supply the moral vocabulary—each layer lending borrowed credibility to the one below. This is an argument I've been making since 2023.

The report divides into two main parts.

Genocide. The booklet argues that the casualty figures underpinning the charge come from Hamas-run bodies (the Gaza Ministry of Health and Government Media Office) that present all deaths as civilian and Israeli-caused, omitting combatants, natural deaths, and Hamas's own misfires and executions. It walks through statistician Abraham Wyner's analysis of implausibly uniform daily totals and demographically impossible correlations, the eventual quiet removal of thousands of "validated" names, and the Al-Ahli hospital case as a template for fabrication. From there it builds toward a combatant-to-noncombatant ratio of roughly 1:1.2 to 1:1.4—lower, it argues, than U.S. operations in Iraq or Mosul, and historically low for urban warfare against an enemy embedded in civilian infrastructure. A section on "institutional propagandists" examines figures like Francesca Albanese and the Pillay Commission, and a striking subsection documents academics (Bartov, Ophir) who reportedly conceded the term "genocide" doesn't fit the legal definition yet kept using it for rhetorical effect.

Starvation. The second half assembles the aid record—roughly 2.2 million tons of aid, including 1.7 million tons of food, working out to far above the 2,100-kcal wartime minimum—and contrasts it with the famine narrative. It documents a reporting gap of tens of thousands of trucks between Israeli (COGAT) and UN (OCHA) figures, dissects the "500-truck" threshold as a shifting double standard, challenges the August 2025 IPC famine declaration on methodological grounds, and catalogs the now-familiar "starvation" photographs whose subjects turned out to have preexisting medical conditions. It closes on Hamas's diversion of aid (estimates up to 90%, generating roughly $500 million in a year) and its campaign against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

The conclusion ties it together: when institutions abandon methodological rigor, journalists outsource verification to a terrorist organization, and grave legal terms are emptied of meaning for political effect, the damage extends past Israel to the human-rights framework itself.

I uploaded the report to Scribd so anyone can more easily find it, read it and download it. 

There was some coverage in Jewish and Israeli media outlets when the report was released. Of course, given that much of the material is critical of the mainstream media, they ignored it completely. 

Manufacturing of a Blood Libel by Eldad Tzioni

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