What’s been most shocking over the last nearly three years, since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, has been the willingness of people in positions of power and responsibility to accept and repeat obviously untrue claims about Israel and Jews. Now, at least the worst of those, the libel that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, is having one leg after another kicked out from under it.

The claim that the International Court of Justice (which, in fact, is not even a court at all) found it “plausible” that Israel was committing genocide was debunked by its own retiring president, Joan Donoghue. This followed credible allegations by the legal NGO Shurat HaDin that South Africa’s ruling party, which had brought the claims at the ICJ, had done so in exchange for bribes from Iran. To underscore the frivolous nature of the case, South Africa just sought and received an extended briefing schedule that will delay it until 2029.