The events of this past week have highlighted once again the power of the anti-Israel hoax. A claim intending to prove something about Israeli policy is revealed to be false, but not before it mobilizes concerted global action against the Jewish state and is then defended on the grounds of Truthiness: the belief that something is true because of preexisting biases, even when it is directly contradicted by the facts. Those of us who live in reality have seen the same thing happen over and over