British Blood Libel
Labor Party MPs Spread Lies About Israel At Parliamentary Hearing
Andrew Fox, the brilliant observer of Israel’s war against Iran and its proxies, recently posted a distressing example of how governmental bodies enable and promote blood libels about Israel. I urge everyone to read his article: Professor Nizam Mamode A testimony full of assumptions and errors.
Fox writes: “The UK media (and social media worldwide) was shocked by Mr Nizam Mamode's testimony to the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee. You can read his testimony online (including a link to watch the live recording).”
Mamode was one of many of the most anti-Israel and anti-semitic organizations and individuals1 that the Committee — led by Labor MPs - asked to testify. The Committee knew that Mamode and his cronies would peddle a pile of fictional shit claiming Israel is a bloodthirsty nation so hell-bent on genocide in Gaza that is now using drones to target and kill infants and young children.
In particular, the media — the fictional shit spreaders — seized on Mamode’s assertion that the IDF is using drones to hunt down and kill infants and children. Mamode implied such drones account for the bogus argument that 70 percent of all Gaza casualties are women and children. (For more on the outright invention of this libel, I recommend looking at this excellent overview from HonestReporting.org.)
As Fox points out, Mamode volunteered with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) in Gaza from mid-August to mid-September 2024. According to NGO Monitor, In 2018, MAP was criticized by the UK Charity Commission for utilizing its annual income for political propaganda rather than providing medical aid. Complaints that led to the Charity Commission inquiry include inaccurate and misleading content on MAP’s website, such as material promoting racist hatred, false claims regarding the medical situation in the West Bank and Gaza, and the promotion of the antisemitic play “Seven Jewish Children.”
Truth About IDF Drone Use
Since the media focused on Mamode’s drones of death claim, it is helpful to share the truth about the IDF’s use of drones in Gaza and elsewhere if for no other reason than apart from Major Fox’s account, you won’t get the facts of the matter.
The IDF has used drones for over 20 years, primarily for reconnaissance and in sharing cell phone calls and pamphlets alerting civilians of impending attacks.
The Modern War Institute reports:
Tactical drones became indispensable for urban and subterranean warfare, offering reconnaissance, cover fire, and even acting as guided munitions.
Specialized drones are now part of most units operating in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. The Refaim (Ghosts) Unit, a multidimensional IDF force, pioneered drone integration into autonomous ground operations, enabling faster identification, targeting, and elimination of threats.
These units act as "drone bands" or "exposure-attack units," providing rapid and precise battlefield intelligence.
During the war in Gaza, drones have become part and parcel of every operation. The vast majority of drones are unarmed since their primary function in Israeli doctrine remains the provision of real-time situational awareness for ground forces.”
They are vital for navigating cities and tunnels, detecting traps, clearing hazards, and acting as communication relays in signal-degraded environments to keep IDF troops alive and connected.
Throughout the Gaza and Lebanon operations, drones with speakers urged civilian evacuations, while others verified casualty figures for transparency and compliance with humanitarian laws. (Of course, these numbers are also widely ignored by the media. )
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies points out that the use of new drone technology and flooding the zone with numerous types of drones at all levels of combat provide the troops with a lot more security on the battlefield.
Hence, drones can help artillery direct their fire more precisely by providing an overwatch of an infantry or tank unit carrying out a maneuver in an urban area. Urban units can also use drones at the tactical level to see around corners or look inside buildings. For example, the IDF began using the Orbiter-2 this past June. It combines surveillance, precision strike capabilities, and thorough post-strike damage assessments.
There is only one drone suited for shooting bullets. The TIKAD is the first and only Unmanned Aerial Solution (UAS) armed with lightweight firearms. The drone was developed by Raziel Atuar, a former Special Mission Unit commander in the Israel Defense Force who was inspired to create this drone system after experiencing the difficulty of battling terrorist agents that operate within civilian populations. The purpose of the drone is to reduce military casualties and civilian deaths when fighting terrorists who are using innocent people as human shields.
Instead of shooting missiles into civilian areas, sending in ground troops – but this shifts the risk to your troops, which often leads to injuries and casualties," says Atuar. "But, we thought, 'what if there was a better way'." It enables the remote, real-time, and accurate firing of lightweight firearms via a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platform. The IDF has been using TIKADs since 2017.
Israel is using drones to reduce civilian casualties and combat mission deaths. John Spencer, Chairman of the Urban War Institute at West Point, notes: “Steps that Israel has taken to prevent casualties are historic in comparison to all these other wars.” He outlined how the Israeli military took measures that no other military, including the American, had taken during a war, such as calling and texting individuals to warn them of a forthcoming air strike and sharing maps with plans for military maneuvers in certain areas.
Similarly, drones have played an essential role in what the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Col. Richard Kemp, concluded after reviewing the IDF’s combat operations: “I have fought in combat zones around the world including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Macedonia and Iraq. I was also present throughout the conflict in Gaza in 2014. Based on my experience and on my observations, the Israel Defense Forces … does more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.” Kemp also noted that the estimated civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio, at slightly over 1:1, is nine times lower than the UN-published global average, four to five times lower than numbers produced by the US and its allies (such as in Iraq and Afghanistan), and lower than any urban warfare scenario ever recorded in history.
Why would Israel want to use precision technology to wipe out an entire country? If Israel wished to engage in genocide in Gaza, so why would they allow the following?
Almost 4,900 Palestinian patients needing treatment abroad were allowed to leave between November when Egypt reopened the Rafah crossing for medical evacuations, and May when Egypt closed the crossing after Israeli forces seized control of the Gaza side.
Despite the oft-repeated claims that Gazans are being starved, in fact, a study by experts from the Hebrew University…found that over the previous four months, the amount of food available in Gaza was enough for each Gazan to have 3,163 kcal a day, one and a half times the recommended 2,100 calories a day.
What Fox writes about Mamode can be said for the political and journalistic infrastructure of Jew-hatred that sponsors and perpetuates his blood libel: “ Mr. Mamode’s testimony is sufficiently full of holes that the most lurid accusations he makes may be taken with, if not a pinch of salt, extreme suspicion. Of course, that has not stopped the world’s media from reporting it as fact.”
Emina Ćerimović, Associate Director, Disability Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, Nebal Farsakh, Spokesperson, Palestine Red Crescent, Sam Rose, Senior Deputy Director for UNRWA Affairs in Gaza and Rohan Talbot, Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, Medical Aid for Palestinians.