| THE LIE Israel is guilty of genocide, illegal land invasions and rape against Palestinians. |
| THE TRUTH Every one of those crimes is committed openly by Palestinians and systematically blamed on Israel. |
| BACKGROUND On April 28, 2026, Ana Kasparian shared a video of a car hitting two women and immediately amplified the claim that the driver was an “Israeli settler” attacking “Palestinian” women, using it to label all Israelis “savages.” (X) When evidence emerged that the driver was Palestinian, she doubled down — insisting he must be Israeli because Israelis commit “genocide, illegal land invasions and rape.” (X) Only after the original poster confirmed the driver was Palestinian did she concede, at which point she shifted to questioning whether he had even acted intentionally. (X) |
| TRUTH EXPLAINED The genocide accusation is patently false: Gaza’s population continues to grow — a basic demographic fact inconsistent with the definition of genocide — and surveys show Gazans overwhelmingly support continuing the conflict against Israel. (Israel Truth Network) Claims that Israelis are seizing Palestinian land collapse under basic scrutiny: Jews are not permitted to enter Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, let alone live there. (Israel Truth Network) The narrative of Israelis raping Palestinians stems from a UN report alleging systematic Israeli sexual violence. But the report fails to provide proof of actual sexual assault. Its allegations rely overwhelmingly on secondhand Palestinian testimony, and what it classifies as “sexual violence” includes requiring women to remove veils at security checkpoints and having captured terrorists strip before detention—a common security procedure intended to prevent concealed weapons or explosives. (UNHRC) The report went further and condemned Israel for releasing confession videos of Hamas prisoners who admitted to rape and atrocities on October 7, arguing this violated the rapists’ “due process and fair trial guarantees” — revealing greater concern for the dignity of rapists than for their victims. (UNHRC) Meanwhile, sexual violence continues to be a systemic problem among Palestinians. In April 2026, reports documented children in Gaza being sexually abused and blackmailed into Hamas recruitment, and Gazan women being sexually exploited by Hamas when seeking food or financial aid. These abuses received virtually no attention from commentators like Kasparian. (Daily Mail), (Daily Mail), (Ynet News) According to the U.S. State Department, neither the Palestinian Authority nor Hamas effectively enforces rape laws, and women who report sexual violence are frequently blamed by authorities for provoking it. Roughly one in five Palestinian women report physical abuse by their husbands, with rates significantly higher in Gaza. Neither government faces sustained international pressure to address or even transparently report these figures. (US State Department) All of that is in addition to the widely documented mass sexual violence committed by Hamas and other Gazans during their October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel, in which they subjected Israeli men and women—both alive and killed—to mass rape and other atrocities. The invasion was one of Hamas’ several genocide attempts against the Jewish people. (Israel Truth Network) Nevertheless, Kasparian continues to accept Hamas’ claims unquestioningly while assigning their crimes to Israelis. (Piers Morgan Uncensored) |
| QUOTES “My father raped her, then I did and then my cousin did and then we left but my father killed the woman after we finished raping her. … Before this woman, we had raped another girl as well, I killed two people, I raped two people, and I broke into five houses.” — October 7th terrorist Abdallah Radi |
| TAKEAWAY Kasparian’s consistent embrace of Hamas-aligned narratives while ignoring documented Palestinian atrocities shows that her stated opposition to “genocide, rape, and illegal land invasions” is not a principled position. It functions specifically as opposition to Jewish self-defense in the aftermath of those very crimes being committed against Jews. |
