France, Britain, and Canada Have Strengthened Hamas

The sort of lies and misinformation that impels someone to gun down two young people because they happened to be leaving a Jewish gathering doesn’t just come from YouTube channels, social-media fever swamps, and the New York Times. It also comes from the governments of France, Britain, and Canada, who in a recent joint statement made clear that they “strongly oppose” Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza—with various threats attached. Baked into the statement are all sorts of assumptions about the IDF’s conduct of the war that are detached from reality. Worse, writes Richard Kemp, the declaration amounts to