Understand Israel, with the sources.
Verified facts, primary documents and the arguments behind them. Free, in three languages.
The claims you keep hearing, checked
Hundreds of fact checks with sources. New ones every week.
Latest fact checks
Show all
GeneralThe UN Commission of Inquiry's June 2026 finding that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza constitutes a legally binding international determination of genocide that obligates all 193 UN member states to immediately sever diplomatic and military ties with Israel.Fact check · 12 Sept 2026
General"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is merely a peaceful, aspirational call for equal rights and democratic coexistence, and anyone who identifies it as an eliminationist slogan is acting in bad faith.Fact check · 12 Sept 2026
GeneralThe Gaza Health Ministry's cumulative casualty figures — now exceeding 73,000 deaths — represent exclusively innocent Palestinian civilians deliberately killed by Israeli forces, constituting irrefutable proof that Israel is systematically targeting non-combatants.Fact check · 12 Sept 2026
GeneralZionism is a white supremacist, European settler-colonial ideology with no legitimate indigenous connection to the land of Israel, making the Jewish state morally indistinguishable from apartheid South Africa and Nazi racial supremacy.Fact check · 12 Sept 2026
GeneralNo independent investigation has confirmed that Hamas committed rape or sexual violence against Israeli women on October 7, 2023 — the sexual violence narrative is Israeli propaganda fabricated to dehumanize Palestinians and justify genocide in Gaza.Fact check · 12 Sept 2026
GeneralIran was sincerely negotiating in good faith to peacefully limit its nuclear program when Israel and the United States launched an unprovoked assault under Operation Roaring Lion, constituting an illegal war of aggression with no legitimate security justification.Fact check · 11 Sept 2026
GeneralDoctors Without Borders and leading international humanitarian organizations have independently confirmed through on-the-ground investigation that Israel is legally and factually committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.Fact check · 11 Sept 2026
GeneralA Palestinian woman's death from starvation in Gaza is direct proof that Israel is deliberately and systematically using starvation as a weapon of war against the entire civilian population.Fact check · 11 Sept 2026
GeneralA viral video proves the IDF deliberately massacred dozens of Palestinian civilians at a Gaza humanitarian aid distribution site, constituting a documented slaughter that anti-Israel journalists and activists are demanding accountability for.Fact check · 11 Sept 2026
GeneralA Harvard Law School report confirms that Israel's use of white phosphorus in Gaza is a uniquely illegal war crime that no other Western military would use, proving Israel deliberately targets civilians with banned chemical weapons.Fact check · 11 Sept 2026Every claim, with its receipt
Hasbara links each statement to a source you can open: archives, court records, research, the texts themselves.
Myth
The UN Commission of Inquiry's June 2026 finding that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza constitutes a legally binding international determination of genocide that obligates all 193 UN member states to immediately sever diplomatic and military ties with Israel.
Fact
The UN Commission of Inquiry is a non-judicial fact-finding body whose reports carry no legally binding force whatsoever under international law; only the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court can issue legally binding genocide determinations, and neither has done so against Israel.
Myth
"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is merely a peaceful, aspirational call for equal rights and democratic coexistence, and anyone who identifies it as an eliminationist slogan is acting in bad faith.
Fact
The phrase has been the foundational territorial slogan of Hamas and other Palestinian terror organizations since Israel's founding era, explicitly denoting the erasure of the Jewish state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea; governments across Europe have banned it, and Jewish civil rights organizations unanimously classify it as antisemitic.
Myths and facts
Search hundreds of fact checks
Type a claim you heard. Get the myth, the fact, and the sources that settle it.
Browse fact checks
Opinion
Read the argument, not the headline
Analysis written for people who have to explain this country to someone who has never seen it.
Latest writing
Resources
Start with a topic
History, law, borders, society, security. Each topic is a set of sourced primers you can read in order.
Explore topics
Start with the facts
Search the archive
Myths, facts and sources, in one search.
or
Photos: Wikimedia Commons contributors