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Fletcher chose to lie to demonise Israel and
spread antisemitic hatred.
Tom Fletcher didn’t stop there.
The very next week, Fletcher appeared
on CNN and spread yet another blood libel.
He claimed that 10,000 aid trucks were
waiting to enter Gaza, but they couldn’t
enter because Israel has stopped them.
This was again a complete lie. Israel was
facilitating aid into Gaza, and the buildup
of trucks (around 100 of them) was largely
on the Gaza side, not on Israel’s side. The
reason for the backlog was because the UN
was not collecting and distributing the aid
inside Gaza.
If Tom Fletcher’s accusations were true,
it would have been easy to verify, because
it would create a traffic jam stretching from
Tel Aviv to Eilat… TWICE! This would be
something most Israelis would notice. It
would be enough trucks to wrap around
the border of Gaza ten times. Alternatively,
for a UK comparison, it would clog the
entire length of the M1 and M6 motorways
in both directions between London and
Birmingham. If such a traffic jam existed, it
would break records.
So, why would he lie so brazenly?
Because Tom Fletcher knows that these lies
work in doing exactly what they are meant
to do: incite hatred against Israel.
In both cases, the BBC and CNN anchors
weren’t prepared with the facts to challenge
him in real-time; and since Fletcher is a UN
official, they gave him the benefit of the
doubt.
The truth? Gaza received eight months’
worth of food aid during January and
February, much of which, crucially, ended
up being hoarded by Hamas or stockpiled
in UN warehouses (possibly used by Hamas).
There is no famine in Gaza, and 14,000
babies have not died.
However, for several days, headlines
spread around the world stating that
Israel was starving Palestinians; that it was
denying aid into Gaza; and that 14,000
babies were going to be murdered by
Israel. These fallacies are still believed by
some, because headlines reach millions,
while corrections are barely seen. The truth
remains buried beneath the viral lie.
Tom Fletcher is just the tip of the
iceberg when it comes to UN blood libels.
Sadly, it seems Tom Fletcher is more
interested in demonising Israel than helping
Palestinians, and he’s not the only one at
the United Nations.
One of the most infamous anti-Israel
voices at the UN is Francesca Albanese, the
UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian
territories. She has also been spreading
dangerous blood libels and will use every
opportunity to demonise Israel.
Albanese proved her credentials
when she shared an image of Palestinians
receiving aid and described Israel’s orderly
method of handing out aid as “the worst
humanity is capable of.” Meanwhile, Israel,
under constant threat from Hamas, is going
to extraordinary lengths to deliver aid to
civilians under terrorist rule. Instead of
acknowledging that, Albanese chooses to
distort reality and fuel hatred.
If Francesca ever reads this, we are
quite sure that October 7th and the
Holocaust are real examples of “the
worst humanity is capable of ”, not Israel
handing free food to Palestinians who
have been denied it by Hamas.
One has to wonder what planet these
people are on, but they are not alone. At
the UN, they have many friends because
too many at the UN are peddling dangerous
antisemitic hatred.
Since Hamas’s October 7th massacre,
multiple UN figures have issued wildly
inflammatory, anti-Israel statements
invoking antisemitic tropes and double
standards, many of which should be labelled
as antisemitism when compared with the
IHRA definition of antisemitism.
Here are some of the worst offenders:
Francesca Albanese (UN Special
Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories):
Francesca is mentioned twice in this article
because she is a repeat offender (and
probably the most famous).
In October 2023, (just days after October
7th) she argued that “in the case of Israel,
there was no right to self defence on
October 7th simply because Israel was not
attacked by another state. In other words,
according to her, since the attack came
from an armed group within a territory
that Israelis are widely accused of illegally
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