A 2021 History Lesson That Still Exposes the Gaza Propaganda

 There’s a Ben Shapiro video from June 2021 that walks through the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from biblical times forward. It’s well over five years old now. The title is blunt: “Here’s THE TRUTH About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (A Comprehensive History).” It covers Jewish historical connection to the land, the Roman renaming of the area, the absence of a prior independent Palestinian state, the repeated Arab rejections of partition and peace offers, and the pattern of wars and terrorism aimed at Israel’s elimination rather than coexistence.

Watch it here: [VIDEO]

The video predates the current Gaza operation by more than two years. That operation began after the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre— the worst single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. What followed has stretched nearly three years: intense fighting, hostage crises, ceasefires that partially held or frayed, territorial control shifts inside Gaza, and a humanitarian disaster that Hamas has long used as both shield and propaganda tool. As of mid-2026 the situation remains fluid under the framework of later diplomatic efforts, with Israeli forces still holding substantial portions of the Strip and low-level violence continuing.

What has not changed is the propaganda. Accusations of “genocide” against Israel have been repeated so often and so carelessly that the word has been emptied of meaning. Genocide requires specific intent to destroy a people in whole or in part. Israel’s actions—warnings before strikes, efforts (however imperfect) to limit civilian casualties while targeting an enemy that embeds among them, and the simple fact that Gaza’s population has not been eliminated—do not meet that standard. The charge functions less as legal analysis and more as a moral weapon: it reframes a war started by Hamas’s deliberate massacre and charter commitment to Israel’s destruction into a story of pure Israeli villainy. It also conveniently sidesteps Hamas’s own documented use of human shields, diversion of aid, and rejection of every serious peace offer that would have required recognizing a Jewish state.

History is not a morality play written yesterday. The 2021 video is useful precisely because it forces the viewer to confront the longer arc instead of the latest slogan. People who treat the conflict as beginning in 1967, or 1948, or even 2023 are usually not interested in history. They are interested in a narrative that assigns permanent guilt to one side and permanent innocence to the other. That is not analysis. It is propaganda with a body count attached.

The facts on the ground remain stubborn. Israel exists. It has the right to defend itself. Its enemies have repeatedly chosen rejection and violence over state-building and compromise. Until that choice changes, the cycle continues—and the word “genocide” will keep being deployed as a substitute for serious thought.