Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Good morning, Gloria, and evening, Grace, America, Hugh Hewitt. Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the program. I got a lot to cover today. Of course, President's on his way to China. New developments in the Iran war with Israel, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. I'll cover all that. But I've got to start with Nick Christoph column in the New York Times, and to help me do that, I have Matt Continetti.

Matt, of course, is a columnist with the Wall Street Journal.

He is also the head of domestic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

He was not on the commentary podcast today where they discussed the Christoph column and a couple

other pieces with Ruthie Bloom and others.

But, Matt, let me begin by asking. I assume you've

read the Nick Christoff column that alleges widespread rape of prisoners by other, by prison guards

and by dogs in Israel as part of the system. It's a blood libel. Have you read it?

I've read parts of it, Hugh.

I can't say I was able to stomach the whole thing.

I was so disgusted an alarm by the fact that I hadn't printed in the New York Times

and received such a widespread response from Israel haters and anti-Semites around the globe.

But this is just one of many instances where lies are spread about Israel and the Jewish people.

You can go back to the second anti-Fada rather at the beginning of this century when it was alleged that Israeli

soldiers had targeted a young Palestinian boy. It turned out to be completely a fabrication.

You think about all of the accounts of the mass starvation supposedly in Gaza during the most

recent war, the post-October 7th war. Those were fabrications.

And this libel of genocide that's been put upon Israel, genocide of the Palestinian people,

when, of course, nothing has taken place. It seems to me that every accusation against Israel

is often a confession of

wrongdoing by the part of those who would want to destroy Israel. And the greatest evidence of

this, it seems that one day after that, Nick Christoph's report comes out, CNN reports on this

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