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The Israeli human rights group that told Israelis they were living in an apartheid state now says their country is trying to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza.

B’Tselem has released a report called “Our Genocide”.

The report details how Israel’s genocide could also reach the occupied West Bank and Palestinians in Israel.

by Adam Levick

One example of this revisionist history of the massacre recently appeared in a op-ed at the outlet (“Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US“, Nov. 18th), written by Yuli Novak, executive director of B’tselem.  Novak, though an Israeli, opposes Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state, and once wrote a column appearing to justify Palestinian terror.

Though the headline of her column, as well as the thrust of the text, promotes the genocide libel, what most stands out is her decision throughout the piece to intentionally erase Hamas, and their mass slaughter of Jews in Oct. 2023, from the equation.

Indeed, the word “Hamas” doesn’t appear at all on Novak’s nearly 900 word piece – consistent with the outlet’s broader coverage of the war, in which readers would be forgiven for believing that the terror group disappeared after Oct. 7th.  In contrast, the word “genocide” is used 15 times in the op-ed.

One of the only sentences even alluding to the terror group’s savage attack is here, early in her piece:

A strange kind of calm has settled over Israel in the weeks since the Gaza ceasefire was declared. The sirens stopped. The hostages who survived the 7 October attack and nearly two years in captivity came home.

Novak’s piece, in its desire to push the antizionist narrative regardless of the facts, completely erases the 1,200, mostly Jewish civilians, who were murdered during the ”attack”, the terror group’s widespread use of sadistic torture of, and sexual violence against, women, girls and men, both on Oct. 7th, and in the tunnels where they held hundreds of hostages.

Hamas’s Oct. 7th massacre, their subsequent widespread use of human shields, which has included the use of hospitals and other civilian structures to store weapons and launch attacks, their 350 miles of terror tunnels (often under civilian buildings), as well as their nihilistic decision not to surrender, despite the Gaza civilian casualty count, is similarly erased when, in an attempt to sell her libel, Novak writes:

Hospitals and journalists were systematically targeted…Infrastructure demolished. Israeli officials openly stated the goal: to destroy Gaza and make it uninhabitable. By textbook definition, this is genocide: the deliberate targeting of people not for who they are as individuals, but because they are members of a group marked for destruction.