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Six minutes. That's how long it apparently took for a New York Times columnist to say what a lot of us have been saying for two years now: the genocide charge against Israel never held up, and it became a load-bearing belief for a big chunk of the American left anyway. When your own party's flagship paper is the one dismantling the narrative, that tells you something about how far off the rails this went.
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One of the main drivers of the socialist, antisemitic shifts within the Democratic Party is the Gaza War. You already know this—the flawed narrative that Israel is committing genocide is deeply ingrained in the minds of Democrats, especially young ones.
Even some Republicans, who shall remain unnamed, fed into the lie that the only functioning democracy in the Middle East was committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
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Six minutes. That's how long it apparently took for a New York Times columnist to say what a lot of us have been saying for two years now: the genocide charge against Israel never held up, and it became a load-bearing belief for a big chunk of the American left anyway. When your own party's flagship paper is the one dismantling the narrative, that tells you something about how far off the rails this went.
What's striking isn't that the claim was wrong. Plenty of wrong claims float around and die quietly. This one didn't die because it was useful. It gave young progressives a clean moral framework, gave the "Squad" wing a rallying cry, and gave some Republicans cover to distance themselves from Israel without having to explain why. That's the part worth sitting with: this wasn't just a media failure, it was a coalition-building tool, and it worked on people who should have known better on both sides of the aisle.
Israel fighting a war against a terrorist group that hides among civilians and steals aid is not the same thing as a state trying to exterminate a people. Anyone who's looked at actual genocide, Rwanda, Cambodia, the Holocaust itself, knows the difference in scale and intent. Calling Gaza that isn't moral clarity, it's moral inflation, and it cheapens the word for when it's actually needed.
The real story here is how a claim this shaky became load-bearing doctrine inside one of America's two major parties. That's not a Gaza problem. That's a Democratic Party problem, and pretending otherwise just delays the reckoning.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.