‘Amnesty International and Harvard,’ says Alan Dershowitz of the 7 October 2023 massacre, ‘blamed it on Israel even before the first shot was fired in Gaza.’ It was true; the Israel Defence Force (IDF) did not enter Gaza until 27 October, but already there were ‘River to Sea’ anti-Israel demonstrations, anti-Semitic posts on TikTok, the first stirrings of the Tentifada movement on campuses, a deafening silence in the United Nations (especially from its women’s committee which was to take six months to denounce the mass rapine) and a worldwide attempt to blame 7 October on its victims rather than its perpetrators.
On Saturday 15 May 2024 there were two consecutive articles in the Times, a full eighteen months after the 7 October massacres, entitled ‘Jewish Students “scared to leave halls” as societies share Hamas propaganda’ and ‘Anti-Semitism in UK “off the rails” says director of US campuses film’, about Wendy Sachs’ documentary October 8 (which I doubt we’ll see broadcast on the BBC).
We have done this so that future generations will not be misled about the true extent of the massacre
There is therefore every reason to return to the actual events of 7 October, which the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has done with our report.
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