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The Misinformation Against Israel Costs Lives

(Telegraph-UK) Charles Moore - The BBC interviewed Tom Fletcher, a former British diplomat who is now the UN humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, who said that if Israel did not let in UN food there were "14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours." That was five days ago. Not one such death has been reported. In fact, the same IPC report whose projections he grossly distorted has admitted that there is currently no famine in Gaza. But the damage was done. In Parliament, 13 MPs repeated the Fletcher dead baby formula. Tom Gross, the respected monitor of Israel coverage in the media everywhere, noted that the New York Times, NBC News, Time magazine, The Guardian and ABC News all repeated Fletcher's claim, citing the BBC as a reliable source. Although admitting the "horrendous level of suffering" in the conflict, Gross says, "I follow it incredibly closely, and so far as I can tell, no one has yet died of hunger in this conflict." Yet the times since Oct. 7, 2023, that the BBC has run starvation scares about Gazan people are almost uncountable. You barely hear that Israel's policy is not to stop the aid but to find more secure ways of distributing it. The constant use of the word "genocide" to describe Israel's war has an effect on the collective mind of the West. If Israel is killing babies, say angry, radicalized young men, let's kill the baby-killers. The extreme anti-Israel ideology of the man who murdered the young Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington was the gateway to his actions. If we judge by the slogans shouted in the pro-Gaza marches in Britain, many are passing through the same gateway here. The writer, a member of the House of Lords, is a former editor of the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, and the Sunday Telegraph.
2025-05-27 00:00:00
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