The Israelis should never have been put in this position. According to reports, they really didn’t want to do this. ‘Israeli officials initially avoided discussing the specifics of how its citizens were killed’, notes CNN, let alone publishing the gory details for all to see. Most sickeningly, posting these images won’t make the blindest bit of difference with the anti-Israel bigots. Indeed, on the conspiratorial underbelly of the internet, claims are now swirling that the images are fakes.

We need to call this out for what it is: atrocity denialism. Truth in journalism is sacrosanct. Of course it is. But that is not what these Twittering ghouls are after. This has all been a transparent attempt to suggest that Hamas’s pogrom, while horrible and everything, is being sexed up by the Israelis and its propagandists to suit some nefarious agenda. To Jews, this probably sounds grotesquely familiar. Indeed, those now quibbling about how many Israeli babies were killed and by what method sound an awful lot like the Holocaust deniers who, while conceding that the Holocaust happened and was bad, insist the death toll was vastly exaggerated.

[Exactly — it’s yet another way to minimize or eliminate any responsibility for the genocide of Jews. Why? To acknowledge it would be to force action to stop it. And few care enough about the Jews to do so. — Ed]