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For months, anti-Israel activists, enabled by news media outlets, repeated claims that the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in their January interim judgement, stated that there was a “plausible” case of genocide in Gaza. In a recent interview on BBC News, Joan O’Donoghue, the ICJ president when the interim ruling was announced, put to rest those claims, saying it represents a total mischaracterization of the world court’s ruling.

Fourteen years after a convoy of ships left Turkey for Gaza in a publicity stunt aimed at demonizing Israel, another group of radicals are doing it again. The ‘Freedom Flotilla Coalition,’ while claiming to be humanitarians, are nothing more than anti-Israel activists using media attention to defame Israel. There is more food entering Gaza on a daily basis now than entered Gaza daily before Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack, and cynical efforts by flotillas cannot be allowed to misrepresent reality. HRC Digital Director, Rick Firth explains...

Last weekend’s unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel served as an important reminder of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s fanaticism and desire to destroy Israel. Via its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the regime arms, funds and trains various terrorist groups, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hezbollah, and Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthis. The IRGC poses a deadly threat to Israel, and to stability across the Middle East, and it’s time that the news media call it for what it is: a terrorist organization under the control of the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.

It has now been six months since Hamas’ genocidal October 7 massacre in southern Israel, where thousands of terrorists invaded the Jewish State, raping, torturing, murdering and kidnapping innocent Israelis. There are still 130 hostages being kept by Hamas in Gaza, suffering under almost certainly deplorable conditions. Don’t let the news media forget about them. Our Digital Director, Rick Firth, digs deeper...