14,000 Gazan babies to die? Another antisemitic ‘blood libel’

By Abdul Masih —

For Hillel Neuer, the UN’s bombastic overstatement (now backtracked) that 14,000 Gazan babies are in danger of dying within the next 48 hours is simply the same “blood libel” of blaming Jews and fueling pogroms.

“When you say Israel is murdering babies, it’s the old blood libel revived in a new form,” says the UN Watch executive director.

The false claim of impending death was made by United Nations’ humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, on BBC’s Radio 4 Today, and replayed by NBC and other news. A UN spokesman later clarified that the claims meant that the 14,000 kids are facing malnourishment and that they wished to get humanitarian aid to them in the next 48 hours.

The murder of two Jews in Washington D.C. on Wednesday is a “stark reminder of where this fanning of flames, this demonization of Israel leads to,” Neuer says. Elias Rodriguez reportedly claimed he killed the Israeli embassy staffers “for Palestine.” He is reported to have chanted the same pro-Hamas chants that protesters used at Columbia University.

Did Rodriguez see the fake news a day prior about the supposed endangering of 14,000 babies before killing the staffers? “Probably,” says Neuer. “You’re throwing a match every time you put out lies because people rightly or wrongly identify Jewish people with Israel.”

This type of reporting shows an avid hungry for any news that is anti-Israel.

In October 2023, news agencies as prestigious as the New York Times picked up but did not verify Hamas’s propaganda when they reported the death of 500 people as result of an Israeli bomb landing on a hospital. But the true story was different.

“It wasn’t Israel. It was an Islamic jihad that was trying to attack Israel and the rocket fell short in Gaza. It didn’t hit the hospital, it fell in the parking lot. It wasn’t 500 people killed, maybe it was a dozen,” Neuer says. “The whole thing was a lie, but sadly there seems to be a demand for (this kind of) story.

“We would think that reputable news agencies would think for a moment when they’re given these kinds of lies, that they would check the facts first,” he added.

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