Douglas Murray: DC killings show how Americans are being incited to kill Jews by anti-Israel propaganda

On Wednesday afternoon, Yaron Lischinsky was trying, as always, to fight lies.On social media he could be found pushing back against just one of the many big lies spread every day about the Jewish state.Specifically he was commenting on the UN Report which garnered headlines around the world.

This was a completely lying, untrue report from one Tom Fletcher (UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs) that 14,000 Gazan babies were likely to die in the next 48 hours unless aid reached them.Mr.Fletcher’s claim ignored every reality on the ground.

That reality includes the fact that when aid trucks — including UN aid trucks — enter Gaza they tend to be hijacked by Hamas, who then use the aid for their terrorists or sell it at a hiked-up rate to the Gazan citizens it is meant for.“Reputable” news organizations like the BBC spread the lie around the world.For days they have been ramping up their coverage of Gaza.

Always on a mission — a mission to claim that Gaza above any other story on earth needed to be the subject of media and international pressure.The Jewish state was committing a “genocide” many of these outlets claimed.

On Wednesday the UN retracted its own report, but not until they had sent that brutal, brutal lie all over the world.I wonder what radical left media think will happen when they act as Hamas’s propaganda outlets? Clearly they are trying to radicalize their readers.And it works.On Wednesday evening, Yaron Lischinsky was with his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim and other attendees at an event in Washington DC’s Capital Jewish Museum.

The couple happened to be staffers at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, but the gunman wouldn’t have known that.Elias Rodriguez, 31, had hidden a gun outside the event and simply wanted to kill Jews.“Free, free Palestine” he said as he whipped out his terrorist keffiyeh scarf and shot them.It was a chant he repeated minutes later when he was arrested.As a result of his actions, two beau...