Netanyahu as the Archetypal Jewish Scapegoat
Bibi-hatred as a Rorschach of projected and internalized antisemitism
Throughout history, the antisemite has scapegoated the Jew as the reason for all misfortune, evil and wrongdoing. It is a tired, ignorant, and dangerous trope that has resulted in persecution, genocides, pogroms, and expulsions against Jewish people across time and space.
We are blamed for allegedly controlling media, government, and society; blamed for apparently trying to replace the “superior” white race; blamed for all war in the Middle East and hindering peace and unity worldwide. The hatred is relentless and disgusting, and it comes from all sides.
Naturally, at some point, even Jewish people can’t be completely impervious to insidious, omnipresent antisemitism. Though it’s unfortunate to watch even Jewish people around the world pile onto this rhetoric — on display in no worse form than the past few days, when many have piled onto the hateful chorus of Jew-haters worldwide as they astonishingly blame Benjamin Netanyahu for Hamas killing six hostages.
If you scanned mainstream media headlines from the last several days, you might think that Netanyahu killed the hostages himself with his bare hands — that is, if you weren’t lost in the slough of misleading headlines that…
