Current sectionIsrael NewsHaaretz TodayHaaretz Today No actual researcher, journalist or scholar should ever traffic in conspiracy theories. Our currency is empirical evidence. A search for the truth should start by admitting we don't have it – and then looking for evidence before drawing conclusions, not afterShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeDahlia Scheindlin09:22 PM • August 04 2026 IDTApparently, there is nothing in the universe that fanatics cannot seize upon to score a point about Israel and Palestine.Loading...Click the alert icon to follow topics:Haaretz Today NewsletterCommentsLoading...In the NewsIn the News: Live UpdatesMichigan PrimaryIsrael-LebanonGazaHezbollahNetanyahuDavid BarneaElection PollsHaQuizHaaretz PodcastTop Court: Racial Violence Against Arabs 'Contrary to Israel's Core Values'A Diss Track of Rapper Saint Levant Asks What Famous Palestinians Should BeJewish Billionaire and Megadonor Ron Lauder Reportedly Stopped Donating to GOPIran Considered Strikes on Ukraine as Caspian Sea Tensions Spiked, Adviser SaysMichigan Voters Head to Polls in 2026's Most Consequential Primary on IsraelRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThis Israeli ultra-Orthodox Feminist Activist Has a Warning for U.S. JewsNetanyahu Says Israel Has 'Special Forces' Ready if He's Arrested on NY VisitHow Israel's Elbit Armed the United Arab EmiratesTwo Female Israeli Soldiers Die by Suicide as IDF Mental Health Crisis DeepensDozens of IDF Soldiers Desert Sde Teiman Base in Protest of Commander'I Tried, I Got Crushed by AIPAC': Andy Levin Is All-in for El-Sayed