Holocaust Memory, Gaza Hunger, and a Propaganda War on the World

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pinned a QR code to his chest and called it memory. He said “finish the job.” He said “let my people go.” Some walked out. Some applauded. The hall itself split down the middle as Netanyahu’s UN speech folded October 7, the Holocaust, and the hunger of Gaza’s children into one long sermon of war.

The room fractured in real time. Delegates staged a walkout – filing in for the first session just to leave as Netanyahu began. Screams of protest echoed from the balcony, defiant voices breaking through his script. Yet in Israel’s section, planted supporters clapped and cheered, a counterpoint staged to mask the dissent.

This wasn’t only theater in New York. Netanyahu confirmed mid-speech that Israeli intelligence had hooked Gaza City’s loudspeakers to his mic, forcing civilians to listen to his threats. His words – piped into homes with no electricity, hospitals with no supplies, shelters holding starving families – became a weapon in themselves.

That is not diplomacy. That is psychological warfare dressed in scripture.

Memory Hijacked

“On October 7, Hamas carried out the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust,” Netanyahu told the hall, urging delegates to scan his QR pin. “They burned babies alive,” he said.

The speech leaned hard on Holocaust language. Netanyahu cast the genocide case against Israel not as evidence, but as libel: “These are blood libels, no different from those who accused us of poisoning wells.”

This is the hijack. Jewish memory turned into armor for collective punishment. October 7 was a massacre. The Holocaust was a cataclysm. But to invoke both as cover for starvation in Gaza is not memory, it is manipulation.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has already ordered Israel to “prevent acts of genocide” and ensure humanitarian aid. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented that starvation has been used as a method of war – a war crime. Their warnings are not blood libel. They are law.

The Propaganda Autopsy: Netanyahu’s Gaza Aid Claims

Netanyahu’s numbers collapsed on contact with the record.

Claim: “Israel has let into Gaza more than 2 million tons of aid – one ton for every man, woman, and child. That’s 3,000 calories per person per day.”
Record: Israel-aligned INSS puts the figure closer to 447,000 tons. The UN Famine Review Committee confirmed “catastrophic” food insecurity in northern Gaza in August. Children are still dying of malnutrition.

Claim: “The UN admitted Hamas looted 85% of trucks.”
Record: No, it didn’t. A logistics note was cherry-picked. OCHA clarified that while some theft occurs, the overwhelming cause of hunger is Israeli restrictions: closed crossings, convoy denials, bombardments.

Claim: “The ratio of noncombatant to combatant casualties is less than 2:1.”
Record: That ratio comes from IDF definitions. UN OCHA and independent monitors show the majority of the dead are women and children.

Claim: “99 of 120 Knesset members opposed a Palestinian state – this is consensus.”
Record: It was a non-binding resolution staged for international pushback. Israeli public opinion is divided, not unanimous.

Claim: “We dropped millions of leaflets. 700,000 Gazans moved to safe zones.”
Record: UN OCHA: “There is no safe place in Gaza”. Evacuation corridors are bombed. Families displaced multiple times. Forced flight is not protection.

This is the script: inflate aid, minimize casualties, blame famine on Hamas theft, call genocide a libel, and frame forced displacement as mercy. It is propaganda staged as war policy.

The Legal Ledger: Gaza Threats as Evidence

Some lines will not age as rhetoric. They will stand as evidence.

“If you do release hostages, you will live. If you don’t, Israel will hunt you down.”

“We must finish the job.”

Both were spoken at the UN rostrum, both blasted through Gaza loudspeakers, both directed at civilians trapped under siege.

In international law, threats like these matter. They show intent. They show state policy. They collapse the wall between battlefield and civilian life.

Warnings from the sky do not absolve. Calorie math does not excuse famine. A microphone hooked into Gaza does not make people listen – it makes them captive.

Regional Fantasies

Netanyahu claimed Israel had “begun serious negotiations with the new Syrian government” and praised Lebanon’s “declared aim” to disarm Hezbollah. No independent confirmation exists. Assad still rules Syria. Hezbollah is not disarmed.

He invoked the Abraham Accords, mentioned Indonesia, and promised reconciliation with Iran. He sold victory as the gateway to peace, as if bombardment were a prerequisite to diplomacy.

These are not policies. They are projections, dangled to buy applause.

Digital Occupation

He ended with God and light, applause from his own section, empty chairs across the hall, and the echo of protests above. In Gaza, his voice cracked through loudspeakers over rubble and hunger.

This was not just a speech. It was not just propaganda. It was occupation in sound.