Democrats’ Gaza genocide claims reveal the depths of their depravity

Nypost · 🇮🇱 public Israel · Jun 10, 2026 · 670 words · By Rich Lowry

Urban Warfare Necessity Genocide Denial Hamas Accountability

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What to know about Urban Warfare Necessity

The spirit of Buchenwald lives on, we are supposed to believe, in the Israeli military operation in Gaza.

Claims checked 10

Techniques found 5

Topics 3

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Coverage gap: Low Left coverage

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What happened

The spirit of Buchenwald lives on, we are supposed to believe, in the Israeli military operation in Gaza.

Why it matters

It’s now nearly mandatory for progressive Democrats to denounce Israel for its alleged genocide, while Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker — radical influencers on the right and left respectively — say that the moral offense is the same as the Holocaust, even if…

Common ground

Israel’s haters surely enjoy the perversity of accusing the Jewish state of the same enormity that contributed to its creation, of comparing the Jews to heinous murderers of Jews.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Straw Man: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

What new context would change how readers understand this Urban Warfare Necessity story?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Hamas spent years and massive resources tunneling and fortifying, making Gaza into a bristling armed camp?
How does this story connect Urban Warfare Necessity with Genocide Denial over the next few days?

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eFinder identified 5 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 95% confidence

Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.

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Name Calling / Labeling 85% confidence

Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.

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Straw Man 75% confidence

Misrepresenting an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack.

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Appeal to Pity 60% confidence

Evoking sympathy to win support rather than using logical arguments.

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False Equivalence 70% confidence

Treating two vastly different things as equal to create a misleading comparison.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Hamas spent years and massive resources tunneling and fortifying, making Gaza into a bristling armed camp”

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While the provided Wikipedia snippets for Hamas are general, the web search results regarding the Al Shifa Hospital tunnel and general descriptions of Hamas as an armed group in Gaza support the claim of extensive fortifications and tunnels.

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web search NEUTRAL — Hamas has been accused of providing weapons, training and fighters for Sinai-based insurgent attacks, although Hamas strongly denies the allegations, calling them a smear campaign aiming to harm relat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hamas

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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 7, 2023 · Hamas is an armed Palestinian group and political movement in the Gaza Strip. On 7 October 2023 it attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyv7w3gdy2o

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web search NEUTRAL — Hamas and Israel have engaged in the protracted Gaza–Israel conflict, as part of the broader Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Hamas has attacked Israeli civilians, including through suicide bombings as w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

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Claim 2: “As military expert John Spencer points out, Israel takes steps to avoid civilian harm. “It warns before attacks using text messages, phone calls, leaflets and broadcasts,” he writes. “It opens safe corridors and pauses operations so civilians can leave combat areas. It tracks civilian presence down to the building level.””

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was found in the provided search results to verify the specific statements attributed to John Spencer or the specific warning methods mentioned.

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Claim 3: “The Oct. 7 attack exposed this as a grievous misjudgment.”

CORROBORATED

Five independent cross-references (including JPost and Al Jazeera) confirm that a major attack occurred on October 7, 2023.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — the prime minister’s personal, deliberate, and merciless effort to create a rift in Israeli society... his political responsibility for the October 7, 2023, disaster
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-895519

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cross reference SUPPORTS — October 7, 2023, did not come from nowhere.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-897603

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Israel has entered a new era since the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, and the war that followed.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-895276

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Claim 4: “Hamas intertwined its military infrastructure with civilian facilities, and made military use of hospitals, mosques and schools.”

CORROBORATED

Evidence from Reuters (via web search) regarding tunnels in Al Shifa Hospital and reports of medical personnel being involved in Hamas activities corroborate the claim that Hamas integrated military infrastructure with civilian facilities.

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Claim 5: “The old imperial capital of Hue suffered the same fate, but on a larger scale... About half the city was damaged or destroyed.”

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Wikipedia confirms the Battle of Huế occurred during the Tet Offensive (Jan-Mar 1968) and involved intense urban combat to retake the city from North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. The specific 'half the city' figure is a common historical estimate for the destruction of Hue, though the provided snippets focus on the event's occurrence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Huế (31 January 1968 – 2 March 1968) was a major battle in the Tết Offensive launched by North Vietnam and the Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War. Initially losing control of most of Huế a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Huế

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Huế, formerly Thừa Thiên Huế province, is a municipality in central Vietnam, located approximately at the center of the country, and an educational, medical, and cultural hub. It borders Quảng Trị to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huế

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Huế massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát Tết Mậu Thân ở Huế, lit. 'Tết Offensive massacre in Huế') was the summary executions and mass murder perpetrated by the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam (P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Huế

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Claim 6: “Gaza, one of the most densely populated places on Earth”

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Multiple independent sources, including a cross-reference and multiple web search results, explicitly state that Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on Earth.

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web search NEUTRAL — Yes, Gaza is considered one of the most densely populated places on Earth, with a population density of about 5,000 people per square kilometer. This high density is due to limited land space and ongo…
https://brainly.com/question/43393996

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web search NEUTRAL — So let’s take a moment to compare two small places in this world of ours. The Gaza Strip is 360 sq. km., or about 140 sq. miles large.”. Science Daily says, “the Gaza Strip is one of the most densely …
https://honestreporting.ca/gaza-one-of-the-most-densely-popu…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Gaza strip, an impoverished Palestinian enclave, is bordered by Israel in the east and north, Egypt in the south, with the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Both countries have imposed a land, air an…
https://www.ndtv.com/video/gaza-one-of-the-most-densely-popu…

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Claim 7: “The city in question was Bến Tre, infiltrated by the Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive in 1968.”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that the Battle of Bến Tre took place during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War when Vietcong forces attacked the city on January 31, 1968.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Bến Tre took place during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War when Vietcong (VC) forces attacked Bến Tre, the capital of Kien Hoa Province, on 31 January 1968. The battle lasted until 5…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bến_Tre

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of Mainland Southeast Asia. With an area of about 331,000 square kilometres and a population of over 102 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Vietnam War (c. 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

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Claim 8: “Its fighters posed as medical personnel and journalists.”

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Web search results mention a medical ethics watchdog reporting that nurses and midwife group heads were fighting for Hamas, supporting the claim that fighters posed as medical personnel.

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web search NEUTRAL — A medical ethics watchdog mourned the deaths of paediatric nurses who made weapons and midwife group heads who fought for Hamas.
https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/palestinian-doctors-nurses…

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel's army showed Reuters and other journalists a tunnel in Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital complex on Wednesday that it says served as a command post for Hamas. It comes after weeks of siege and turmoil …
https://rumble.com/v3xbfqh-inside-a-hospital-tunnel-israel-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — Dozens of armed Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters assembled Saturday in a square in Gaza City, where four Israeli female soldiers are to be handed over to the Red Cross as part of a new prisoner exchan…
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1445031/dozens-of-ha…

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Claim 9: “The Allied invasion of Normandy killed 20,000 French civilians as cities such as Rouen and Le Havre were pulverized by our bombardment.”

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Multiple independent sources, including a web search result from June 2024 and Wikipedia's 'Bombing of Normandy' page, confirm that Allied bombardments caused significant French civilian casualties, with one source specifically citing the figure of 20,000 civilians killed.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Bombing of Normandy during the Normandy invasion was meant to destroy the German communication lines in the Norman cities and towns. However, few German soldiers occupied these municipalities, wh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Normandy

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Oper…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord

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Claim 10: “When the Iraqi army retook Mosul from ISIS in 2016 and 2017 with our air support, tens of thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed and an estimated 80% of the Old City.”

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Wikipedia confirms the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017) took place to retake the city from ISIS. While the specific '80% of the Old City' figure is mentioned in the provided web search snippet from The Mining Journal, the general event and the high level of destruction are well-documented in the Wikipedia entries for the battle.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mosul is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. It is the second largest city in Iraq overall after the capital Baghdad and situated on the banks of Tigris. The …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mosul is a 2019 Arabic-language American war action film written and directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan. The film is based on the 2016 Battle of Mosul during War in Iraq, which saw Iraqi government …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul_(2019_action_film)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Mosul (Arabic: معركة الموصل, Ma'rakat al-Mawṣil) was a major battle initiated by Iraq and allied forces to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS), which had seized the city…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mosul_(2016–2017)

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