Last December, masked anti-Israel activists mobbed Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the oldest Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles, hurling antisemitic slurs at guests and branding them "genocidal monsters." Within two weeks, the FBI arrested four members of the group that promoted the assault. The self-styled "Turtle Island Liberation Front" now faces federal terrorism-related charges for allegedly plotting to set off pipe bombs at five sites across Southern California on New Year's Eve. The alleged ringleader, Audrey Carroll, called herself "a Hamas fangirl."
They are not outliers. In May 2025, Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli Embassy employee, and his fiancée, Sarah Milgrim, were murdered outside Washington's Capital Jewish Museum by Elias Rodriguez, who told police, "I did it for Gaza." Days later in Boulder, Colorado, Mohammed Soliman firebombed Jews marching for Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, screaming he "wanted to kill all Zionist people." Holocaust survivor Karen Diamond died from her injuries. And last Hanukkah, two Muslim gunmen, Sajid Akram and his son Naveed Akram, who had filmed themselves condemning "Zionists," opened fire at a Chanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach, killing 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl.
Different cities, different weapons, one conviction: attacking Jews is not a hate crime but "resistance" to occupation and "genocide."
In 1144, the Jews of Norwich, England, were accused of ritually killing a Christian boy for his blood. For nearly nine centuries, the blood libel traveled, mobs close behind. It was never about what Jews did or didn't do. It existed to give mobs permission to harass and kill Jews. Today, that same blood libel has a new name: the Gaza Genocide.
Consider the timeline. The genocide accusation surfaced within days of October 7, while Israel was still identifying the bodies of 1,200 murdered men, women, and children, and while more than 250 Israeli hostages were being abused in Gaza. Within a few days of the massacre, the rapes, and the burning of children, before Israel's ground operation even began, activists were already waving "stop the genocide" signs in Western cities.
On October 13, Zohran Mamdani posted on X: "We are on the brink of a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza right now." On October 15, 800 anti-Israel organizations urged that "immediate and effective measures are needed as genocide is unfolding in the Gaza Strip."
You cannot document a genocide before it allegedly begins. You can only invent one.
The genocide accusation collapses upon contact with evidence, including Hamas's own records. The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry's casualty lists contradict the genocide narrative: 72% of Gaza dead aged 13 to 55 were men of fighting age, the population Hamas recruits from. They died at roughly three times the rate of women their age. Israel fought a war against a terror army hiding behind civilians, not genocide. The only genocidal actor on October 7 was Hamas, whose leaders vowed to repeat it "again and again."
In Israel on Trial, Judge Roy Altman argues that the Holocaust was genocide because Nazi Germany intended to destroy the Jewish people and actually murdered six million Jews. In contrast, Gaza’s population grew from roughly 1.3 million in 2005 to more than 2.1 million by 2025, evidence inconsistent with intent to obliterate the Palestinian people. Israel didn't commit genocide in Gaza; Israel was engaged in nation-building!
A new global initiative, the Gaza GenoLIE, launched by more than 70 organizations worldwide, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the World Jewish Congress (WJC), is exposing this blood libel. The GazaGenoLIE.com website provides concrete evidence that the genocide accusations are a fabricated, orchestrated campaign: genocide claims that began a day after the massacre; a legal definition twisted beyond recognition; a "famine" marketed with images of children sick from preexisting illnesses; terrorists posing as "journalists" for Qatar's Al Jazeera.
This is not a misreading of war but a Hamas-generated, globally amplified hate campaign.
America's radicals adopted it from day one. On October 8, 2023, a rally celebrating the "right to resist" filled Times Square, promoted by the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the Trojan horse in the Democratic Party which I discussed in my previous article.
Demonstrators chanted "700," the number of Israelis then known dead, while making throat-slitting gestures. The DSA's national organization declared the massacre "not unprovoked." Its national co-chair calls the "Gazan genocide" the worst thing she has seen in her adult life, and it is now an expellable offense for DSA-endorsed politicians to say Israel has a right to defend itself.
And this ideology is winning elections. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, a DSA member, was censured by the House after accusing the president of supporting "the genocide of the Palestinian people." Darializa Avila Chevalier, a DSA congressional candidate endorsed by Mamdani, attended the October 8 rally and still defends her attendance. She toppled a veteran congressman in a New York primary, declaring: "We can say what is happening in Gaza is a genocide, and win."
I have argued for a long time that antisemitism is not merely a Jewish problem; it is an American one, and the DSA proves it. The DSA is a domestic outpost of what I call the Red-Green Axis: the marriage of convenience between the radical left and Islamist movements. The "red" brings a decades-old project to dismantle American institutions-capitalism, the family, law enforcement, and the two-party system, using campus and union infrastructure built for this purpose. The "green" brings religious fervor, money, and human resources.
Israel is only their current target; the underlying agenda is American, aimed at hollowing out the country's institutions and civic fabric from within.
This is not a marginal annoyance. The Islamo-Left Alliance is the United States’ number one enemy. Its goal isn't foreign policy; it's domestic transformation: delegitimizing American power, normalizing political violence, and radicalizing a generation against the country's founding principles. The genocide narrative is simply the current vehicle. Whatever the pretext, the target remains the same: the American way of life, American patriotism, and the next generation's loyalty to the country itself.
Jews are the canary in the coal mine. A society that lets a blood libel justify murder will not stop with the Jews. The same Red-Green coalition that cheers "genocide" chants today will find new targets tomorrow, because its real quarrel is with America itself: its alliances, its constitutional order, and its support for democracies under siege.
What must we do? First, arm yourself with the facts at GazaGenoLIE.com and share them, especially with young people drowning in disinformation. Second, demand that leaders of both parties call the genocide charge what it is: a 21st-century blood libel, and name the Islamo-Leftist Alliance behind it for what it is: a threat to America, not just to Israel. Third, move from defense to offense in the media, on campus, and at the ballot box. Make the GenoLIE, and the alliance that spreads it, politically toxic.
For nearly nine centuries, the blood libel has followed the same arc: the lie, the license, the blood. This time, we will not wait for the ending. Fighting the GenoLIE and confronting the Red-Green Axis that fuels it is not only a Jewish fight. Nothing less than the future of America is at stake.
Adam Milstein is an Israeli American strategic venture philanthropist.
This op-ed is published in partnership with a coalition of organizations that fight antisemitism across the world. Read the previous article by Catherine Perez-Shakdam.