Israel-Palestine News: Netanyahu Says It’s Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities
IDF sources tell Haaretz that Gaza has become “a place with its own set of rules” where they are interacting with civilians with whom “your only means of interaction is opening fire”. Deadly military weapons are used as crowd control to steer the starving populace wherever it’s determined they’re supposed to be, routinely killing desperate aid seekers.
Netanyahu Says It’s Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities
Sometimes I’ll write a headline that looks odd on its face, but then I’ll lay out facts and arguments that allow the reader to understand the validity of the claim by the end of the essay. This is not one of those times.
This headline is just me saying the thing that happened. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz are publicly denouncing a report from an Israeli newspaper quoting Israeli soldiers who describe atrocities they were ordered to commit in the Israeli military, accusing the report of “blood libels”.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published an article titled “‘It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid”, subtitled “IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes.”
One Israeli soldier attests that civilians seeking aid are “treated like a hostile force — no crowd-control measures, no tear gas — just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars.”
“We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there’s no danger to the forces,” the soldier says, adding, “I’m not aware of a single instance of return fire. There’s no enemy, no weapons.”
IDF sources tell Haaretz that Gaza has become “a place with its own set of rules” where they are interacting with civilians with whom “your only means of interaction is opening fire”. Deadly military weapons are used as crowd control to steer the starving populace wherever it’s determined they’re supposed to be, routinely killing desperate aid seekers.
Another soldier describes being instructed to fire artillery shells at a crowd to keep them at a distance, saying, “Every time we fire, there are casualties and deaths, and when someone asks why a shell is necessary, there’s never a good answer. Sometimes, merely asking the question annoys the commanders.”
In quote after quote after quote, we read Israeli soldiers describing atrocities they were ordered to commit, which they knew were wrong. I guess Israel’s PR machine never counted on some of the soldiers they sent in to perpetrate the Gaza holocaust having an actual conscience.
A joint statement from Netanyahu and Katz denounced the report, accusing Haaretz of publishing “blood libels”.
“The State of Israel absolutely rejects the contemptible blood libels that have been published in the Ha’aretz newspaper, according to which ‘IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid.’ These are malicious falsehoods designed to defame the IDF, the most moral military in the world,” the statement reads.
“Blood libel” refers to the way medieval Europeans used to falsely accuse Jews of murdering Christian children in blood sacrifices — an early form of atrocity propaganda used to justify the persecution of Jews.
So again, just to be absolutely clear, the leader of the Israeli government is claiming that an Israeli newspaper quoting Israeli soldiers describing their own atrocities is antisemitic. And that mountains of testimony from inside the IDF is “designed to defame the IDF, the most moral military in the world.”
What can I even say about that here? It speaks for itself. I have nothing to add.
The more exposed Israel’s criminality becomes, the more absurd the arguments made in its defense are getting.
Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-funded journalist, essayist, painter & poet based in Melbourne, Australia.
Concern about the killing of innocent non-Jewish children is not “antisemitism”. Truthful reporting about it is not Blood Libel. If any action by any Jew anywhere that incurs justifiable criticism, disapproval or reproof is regarded or “defined” as Jew-hatred, then we are in a semantic hell – anti-semanticism. This response is losing salience. Netanyahu himself has undermined the taboo.
>“Blood libel” refers to the way medieval Europeans used to falsely accuse Jews of murdering Christian children in blood sacrifices — an early form of atrocity propaganda used to justify the persecution of Jews.
Er, no. Jewish ritual murder is well attested over the centuries, with the Simon of Trent and Andrei Yushchinsky cases being particularly well documented, and Israeli academic Ariel Toaff’s Blood Passover being unimpeachable in its analysis.
If Caitlyn were a true investigative journalist, she would question the fact that if the Jews are so shamelessly lying about their sickening atrocities against children in 2025, then perhaps the “fabled” atrocity of 1475 in Trent was just as real, and whole concept of “blood libel” needs to be re-examined. But of course she won’t go there, because we’ve got to pretend that Jewish sadistic tendencies only started on October 8th 2023, and is limited to the transformative soil of Palestine.
I’m getting real tired of my ancestors being slandered as brutes and bigots, when court transcripts show that the “blood libel” investigations were generally very fair and meticulous.
Maybe, in the centuries to come, Caitlyn’s journalism will be similarly slandered as propaganda by future Judaised historians, when the genocidal events of the past two years will be reframed as an anti-Semitic fable.
The kidnapping of children to drain their blood for medieval ritual is obviously different from killing of children during modern ethnic cleansing. Sadism is not exclusively a Jewish trait. However, other nasty things do happen; see e.g. Eliav Breuer, “Survivors Testify,” Jerusalem Post, June 3, 2025 & Celia Jean, “Tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel,” Jerusalem Post, August 4, 2020, online.