Those looking for specific actions that can be taken to blunt the spread of escalating anti-Semitism got one this week thanks to a prominent famine monitor’s about-face on Gaza. According to the IPC, Gaza is miraculously in much better shape than the organization’s researchers claimed it would be earlier this year.
The IPC’s big fat “never mind” is a good reminder that political leaders presiding over a wave of deadly Jew-hatred, and who are at a loss for how to respond, can start by simply preventing the spread of the kind of intentional, explosive blood libels that feed—and have always fed—mob violence against Jews. That means excluding the IPC’s claims from all policy discussion in the future.
After all, more reliable data sources are available, as the Times of Israel points out. One such source is the Global Nutrition Cluster, “which has found that malnutrition rates never crossed famine levels even in July and August, and actually remained 23 percent under that level even at the peak of food insecurity.”
The IPC, meanwhile, has access to the same data and even uses some GNC data in its Gaza reports “but failed to show the consolidated, weighted data used by that organization.” According to the full data the IPC hid, “malnutrition peaked in July and August, and then steadily improved in September, October and November.”
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