Letter from Richard Sherman, Florida, to The Varsity, student paper of U of Toronto, re: article that repeats the much debunked lies about deaths in Gaza, thus promoting Jew hatred

Dear Letter to the Editor:

The University of Toronto " Varsity's" Editor in Chief Eleanor Yuneun Park should not be genuflecting to the totally debunked statistics of the" Gaza Health Ministry". ("UTM Muslim Students Association Sends Legal Letter to Stephen Lecce").

Debunked statistics that reflect the infamous words of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels: " If you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth".

As esteemed Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff has recently written: "The first problem with the casualty numbers was their source. Although news reports frequently stated that "the Gaza Health Ministry " or " the health authorities in Gaza" provided the figures, the numbers came from the HAMAS health ministry - that is, a division of a terrorist group with a long track record of lying about everything from the outcome of its terrorist attacks (inflating the number of Israeli victims, characterizing defenseless Israeli victims as soldiers, and the like) to topics such as The Holocaust, which it calls a hoax, and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which it calls genuine. It also has an obviously strong interest in artificially inflating the numbers in order to increase international criticism of Israel. (See: The Road to October 7. Hamas, the Holocaust, and the Eternal War Against the Jews, Rafael Medoff, 2025,  pp 111-112).

See also:  How the Gaza Health Ministry Fakes Casualty Numbers. The Evidence is in Their Own Poorly Fabricated Numbers, Abraham Wyner, Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Tablet Magazine, 3/6/24).

Emulating  Joseph Goebbels' infamous words is to say the least not quality journalism.

Richard Sherman

Florida