Oct. 7 was a massacre. It was also a litmus test.
Before the bodies were buried, before Israel’s ground war had even begun, before anyone could possibly know how the war would unfold, millions of people had already reached the verdict: genocide. Deliberate starvation. Mass expulsion. Israel targets hospitals. Israel killed its own people. Israel wanted Oct. 7. Maybe Israel even engineered it.
These weren’t tentative suspicions. They were accusations of the worst crimes imaginable, made almost instantly and with total certainty.
Being wrong is ordinary. This was different.
If, after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, your first move is to accuse Jews of secretly committing even greater crimes — and then spend years cramming every new fact into that story — you’ve told everyone something about your judgment.
So save the posts. Save the videos. Save the headlines. Remember who said what.
The same people who lectured everyone else about misinformation, racism, fascism, human rights and moral decency spent years making accusations they could not possibly have known were true.
They took the Great 10/7 Litmus Test.
And failed.