Israel’s and Its Backers’ Abuse of Victimhood, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism

Image by Alex Shuper.

With competing narratives of victimization, one narrative is abused.

One man looks up to the sky crying at the top of his lungs as their wife and two young daughters have become crushed under rubble after being hit by American missiles. The other looks far afield to a distant, white-clothed table where great-grandparents talk of living in Polish ghettoes and being placed into concentration camps for being Jews.

The more extreme among the latter, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir...