And yet again we have congress members clapping like trained seals to debunked Israel propaganda and the characterization of ant-war protesters being in favor of the killing of civilians.

"Many anti-Israel protesters choose to stand with evil. They stand with Hamas. They stand with rapists and murderers. They stand with people who came into the kibbutzim, into a home the parents hid the children, the two babies, in a secret attic. They murdered the families – the parents – they found the secret attic and then they murder the babies. These protesters stand with them, they should be ashamed of themselves."

• Prolonged cheering, standing ovation

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Fucking disgusting.

Immediately after October 7th, there were various sensational and outlandish claims made by Israeli officials that babies were beheaded, put into ovens, murdered in their nurseries, and generally singled out and made to suffer with intentional violence. Since then, no evidence whatsoever has been provided to substantiate these claims and the majority of them have been dropped completely.

UN records indicate that one baby did actually die along with her family after Hamas fighters opened fire into a safe room in Kibbutz Be’eri (page 10), but multiple babies were not intentionally targeted and killed in the way that Netanyahu describes.

None of this is to diminish the atrocities that were committed on October 7th, but it is telling that Israel and Netanyahu in particular seem dead set on making the events on that day seem as barbaric as possible in order to somehow justify that large scale massacring of civilians that is happening in Gaza.