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?