Claims, checked

Viral claims about Israel graded against the evidence: False, Misleading, or Contested, with sources.

• Did Israel bomb the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza?
• Does Israel steal Palestinian water?
• Did Israel build an apartheid wall to grab land?
• Are there five million Palestinian refugees with a right of return to Israel?
• Did Israel massacre hundreds of civilians in Jenin in 2002?
• Did Israel shell a UN school in Gaza and kill 40 refugees?
• Did an Israeli shell kill a family on a Gaza beach in 2006?
• Did Israel massacre peace activists on the Mavi Marmara?
• Does Israel deliberately bomb hospitals?
• Is Israel deliberately murdering journalists in Gaza?
• Did Israel assassinate the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh?
• Did Israel create Hamas?
• Are Ashkenazi Jews descended from Khazar converts rather than the Middle East?
• Does Israel hold its own soldiers accountable for killing Arabs?
• Were the October 7 rapes and atrocities fabricated?
• Has Israel been found guilty of genocide in Gaza?
• Are almost all the Palestinians killed in Gaza innocent civilians?
• What does ‘from the river to the sea’ actually mean?
• Does Israel meet the legal definition of apartheid?
• Has Israel occupied Gaza for decades?
• Is Israel deliberately starving Gaza?
• Are Black Americans the true Israelites and today’s Jews impostors?
• Do ultra-Orthodox Jews oppose Israel, proving Zionism isn’t Jewish?
• Did Israel deliberately attack the USS Liberty?
• Are Palestinians the direct descendants of the Canaanites?
• Was Jerusalem always an Arab city and the Temple Mount always Muslim?
• Does Israel persecute Christians and drive them out?
• Can Arabs be antisemitic if they are Semites too?
• Was the creation of Israel in 1948 ethnic cleansing?
• Did Jews control or run the Atlantic slave trade?
• Was Jesus a Palestinian or a Jew?
• Did Israeli settlers kill 870 Palestinians since October 7?
• Is there no armed resistance in the West Bank?
• Did Israel empty Jenin refugee camp to take the land?
• Did Israel invent a firing zone to expel Masafer Yatta?
• Did an Israeli bulldozer deliberately crush Rachel Corrie?
• Did Ben Gvir hand out machine guns to West Bank settlers?
• Did Zionists erase Al-Haq from the internet?
• Is Islamist terrorism a response to Israel?

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• Are 83% of Gaza’s dead civilians, per ‘the IDF’s own data’? No. The viral figure divides Gaza’s full casualty list by a partial list of individually named Hamas and PIJ fighters. A floor was sold as a census.
• Did Israel kill hundreds of thousands in Gaza? No. The viral 186,000, 680,000 and ‘380,000 children under five’ figures are projections and fabrications; the last one exceeds the number of under-fives who exist.
• Did Israel kill its own people on October 7? No. Hamas murdered some 1,200 people and filmed itself doing it. Documented Israeli friendly-fire cases number in the dozens; the viral ‘1,000 of the 1,200’ is an invention.