If the world were a theatre, I feel we have reached the scene in which all the villains assemble together on one stage, a moment where darkness appears overwhelming just before the tide begins to turn. After the grotesque libel in the New York Times accusing Israel of using dogs to rape Palestinians, a moral breaking point may have been reached. The accusation emerged in the very same week that  testimonies and reports were published concerning the systematic, sadistic, and unspeakable sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israelis on October 7. The inversion is almost unbearable in its cruelty: the crimes inflicted upon Jews are projected back onto the Jewish state itself.

The ancient blood libels against the Jewish people have returned in new forms, growing more grotesque by the day. As throughout history, anti-Jewish accusations depend upon a profound inversion of truth and reality. So as the horrors of October 7 were themselves grotesque beyond words so too their inversion, reflecting the........

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