Denial of Hamas’s Crimes Reflects a Belief in Jewish Deceitfulness

On Monday, the Israeli government screened footage—much of which was recorded by the perpetrators—of the atrocities of October 7 to members of the foreign press. The week before, it shared hard forensic evidence as well. The purpose of these unprecedented steps was to counteract the claims, which still persist, that the horrors of that day were fabricated or exaggerated. David Schraub, writing just a few days after the attacks, labels these claims of Israeli perfidy “epistemic anti-Semitism.” He explains: