Each new day brings with it the same old accusation, no less poisonous for all the repetition: Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza. Hostility to Israel expresses itself, now, without apology or any attempt to hide the antisemitism that fuels it.

The Irish broadcaster RTÉ declares that it will boycott the Eurovision 2026 song contest if Israel is permitted to participate. A music festival in Ghent, Belgium, cancels the appearance of the Munich Philharmonic because its conductor is Israeli. The Croatian president refuses to meet Israel’s foreign minister, who’s on an official visit to Croatia. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez laments that his country “doesn’t have nuclear arms.” Why? Because with them, presumably, he could “stop the genocide in Gaza, pursue its perpetrators, and support the Palestinian population.” And European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces, in a German accent, that the European Union will suspend all payments to Israel in response to the war in Gaza.