In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, the New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza. His reasoning? Israel has the capacity to efficiently kill way more people than it has—if it wanted to. You might call this an exercise in gaslighting if Bret weren’t sufficiently ideologically committed to plausibly believe this bullshit. The essay is, ostensibly, like much of what he has penned in recent years, a response to the increasing disgust toward and isolation of Israel internationally, and to the immediate reality of mass starvation in Gaza. It also comes only days after prominent Israeli-American genocide scholar Omer Bartov penned a long essay in the same opinion section, systematically explaining why Israel is in fact committing genocide; it also comes as over one hundred aid organizations issued a joint statement about Israel’s starvation campaign. Should we assume that Bret, pathological Israeli devotee, is somehow more credible here?