{"id":280116,"date":"2024-11-11T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=280116"},"modified":"2024-11-10T07:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T07:16:38","slug":"israel-keeps-trying-to-devise-new-ways-to-play-victim-while-committing-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/11\/israel-keeps-trying-to-devise-new-ways-to-play-victim-while-committing-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Keeps Trying to Devise New Ways to Play Victim while Committing Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in black lies face down on the Israeli flag, symbolizing sadness and despair. Image via Adobe Stock<\/p><\/div>\n

10 Nov 2024 – It keeps having to invent new abuses to be victimized by–like the imaginary Amsterdam \u201cpogrom\u201d and the fake mass rape narrative that surfaced months after 7 Oct–because it can\u2019t sit comfortably in the role of victimized while on trial for genocide in international courts. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Israel is really struggling with how difficult its present circumstances make playing the victim. It keeps having to invent new abuses to be victimized by like the imaginary Amsterdam \u201cpogrom\u201d<\/a> and the fake mass rape narrative<\/a> that surfaced months after October 7, because it can\u2019t sit comfortably in the role of victimizer while on trial for genocide in international courts.<\/p>\n

Playing victim is too deeply ingrained in the narrative control strategies of Israel and its apologists, so they have to keep coming up with new and innovative ways for Israel to be victimized even when it is very clearly the last state on earth who has any business being viewed as such.<\/p>\n

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We keep seeing the word \u201cpogrom\u201d used to refer to Israeli hooligans getting their asses kicked for obnoxious behavior in Amsterdam even as Israeli settlers keep committing textbook pogroms<\/a> in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n

Just a week ago armed Israeli settlers went on a violent rampage<\/a> torching Palestinian people\u2019s houses, vehicles and olive trees in order to terrorize them and drive them away. This is the exact type of behavior that the word \u201cpogrom<\/a>\u201d has historically been used to describe, but you never hear that word used in the mass media to describe Israeli thuggishness. Instead we\u2019re seeing it used to describe Israeli soccer hooligans getting beat up after they<\/a> tore down Palestinian flags and sang chants about murdering children in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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