READER: “So there are widespread, credible (including in Jewish news outlets) stories about Palestinian babies having to have a limb amputated without anaesthesia because the Israeli government is not allowing humanitarian supplies to get through, and you're saying that a person, including a Jew, who reads about that and objects can only be an antisemite, gullible, or supporter of Hamas? Really?”

I’ve never said such a thing—but I would say that anyone who reads the story you cited and immediately accepts it all without question is either antisemitic, gullible, or both. Hamas has a long history of issuing heinous accusations against Israel that ultimately prove to be lies—but only after Israel and Jews have been demonized by the media, across the internet, in legislative chambers, and on the streets.

As Winston Churchill noted, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Israel, unfortunately, faces an endlessly recurring pattern in its news coverage.