• The statement falsely accuses Israel of genocide and ethnic cleansing, even though there is not a shred of evidence that Israel has ever sought or intended to destroy any national, ethnic, racial or religious group, including the Palestinian Arab people. After the war in 1948 (when five Arab armies attacked the nascent state of Israel with the intention of destroying it), approximately 150,000 Palestinian Arabs were living in Israel. They were not killed or expelled; they became Israeli citizens. Today, there are approximately 2,000,000 Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. So much for ethnic cleansing.

• The statement omits the fact that Hamas – a U.S.-designated terrorist group whose charter calls for the murder of Jews and Israel’s destruction – launched over 4000 rockets into Israel during a two-week period in May, deliberately targeting innocent Israeli men, women and children in their homes and communities. The statement omits the fact that whenever Israel is forced to defend itself against this terrorist group’s murderous attacks, it takes every possible precaution to avoid harming Gazan civilians, whom Hamas uses as human shields and deliberately places in harm’s way.

• The statement omits the fact that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has made it clear that if there is a Palestinian Arab state, he will not allow a single Jew to live there. And it omits the fact that Abbas glorifies and incentivizes the murder of Jews, naming streets, schools and sports teams after Arab terrorists who murder Jews, and rewarding terrorists and their families with lifetime pensions for murdering Jews.