Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza

Universalism's falsehoods are protected by a doctrine of infallibility

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Melanie Phillips
May 09, 2025
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Gaza supermarket, February 2025

Yet again, the myth has been revived that there is a famine in the Gaza Strip.

This claim, which has done so much to incite attacks on Jews, has been promulgated repeatedly by mainstream western media during the past 18 months of war. It is a lie that distorts yet another lie.

Time and again, UN agencies and NGOs have warned…

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