Israel Murders Babies

A lot has been written and spoken about the murder of babies on Oct 7, 2023, when the al-Qassam brigades and other fighters escaped the fortified borders of Gaza and attacked numerous military and nonmilitary targets in Israel in the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation. Hundreds of articles were written, hundreds of videos recorded, leading to hundreds of millions of conversations, live and digital, about Hamas targeting babies in their attack. Political decisions were made, war plans were laid, personal opinions were set, funds were raised, lamentations were expressed, hatred was established, or was reaffirmed, or was pushed into vengeance over this understanding.

Virtually 100% of all of this was a lie.

The number of babies killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was two.

The old saying that a lie travels half way around the world while the truth is putting on its boots needs to be updated for our times and our media reality. Nowadays a lie will travel around the world a hundred million times before the truth can even remove its shackles.

The number of babies killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was two.

Neither of these two babies was killed in a deliberate attack targeting the baby directly. One baby was killed when it was struck by gunfire or shrapnel fired through a safe room door. One baby was born in an emergency surgery after her mother was killed and lived only 14 hours.

So what does the propaganda serve?

As with all propaganda, it serves to influence individuals into collective thought and action and to conceal, obscure, or forgive the propagandist and their allies’ actions. As such, the baby murder propaganda surrounding Al-Aqsa Flood was enormously effective.

The number of babies killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was two.

The number of identified babies under 1 year old killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7, 2023 is at least 710.

That number does not include indirect deaths by starvation, disease, or lack of medical care caused by the widespread Israeli destruction of Gaza infrastructure, medical facilities and the long term denial of food and aid. It also does not include corpses trapped under rubble and unable to be recovered. It also does not include babies between age 1 and 2. The real number of babies murdered by Israeli forces is almost certainly several times the reported 710.

Israel murders babies. If they don’t want to be known as baby murderers, then they should stop murdering babies.

One of the most important and most effective groups opposing the murder of Palestinian babies, and children, and adults, has been Palestine Action. Palestine Action is undertaking a multi-year direct action campaign to shut Elbit Systems down by targeting Elbit facilities and the companies that support and do business with Elbit. Elbit Systems is an Israeli Arms company with branches and subsidiaries in the UK and other nations. It is the primary military supplier for Israeli drones and produces 85% of Israel’s land based military systems.

Lord Walney (aka John Woodcock) recently complained about Palestine Action on Twitter:

“Engineers who are going into work every day in sites around the country are being called baby killers and spat at by these activists. Many of these people are just engineers trying to go to work, do their jobs and earn a living.”

They’re just ordinary men and women, just trying to go to work designing and building weapons to kill babies.

Lord Walney, former chair of Labour Friends of Israel, supporter of the rights of Incels and “Gender Critical” individuals (who don’t actually criticize gender, but criticize and sometimes harass trans folks) in his May 2024 report as UK independent adviser on political violence and disruption, supports banning groups like Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil. Not sure what Lord Walney’s views on killing babies is, but he supports the engineers who are designing and building weapons used to kill babies. And he is really upset that the engineers who are designing and building weapons used to kill babies are being called baby killers.

So, we could ban the group that is trying to force them to stop designing and building weapons being used to kill babies, or, perhaps, if they don’t want to be known as baby killers, they could just stop designing and building the weapons being used to kill babies.