🧩 BND Motif Index · M1209
Collective punishment
After an attack, a whole community is made to pay for what a few did, homes razed, a city sealed off, aid cut, though those punished had nothing to do with it, and the reprisal is told as collective punishment rather than a hunt for the culprits.
📜 Plots🗂️ War motifs🗂️ Crime and punishment
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Israel orders West Bank lockdown after soldiers killed in attack 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-25
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-25 “The Israeli military is conducting a large-scale operation in the West Bank that has forcibly displaced many Palestinians.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-25 “Israel is using collective punishment by demolishing Palestinian homes and besieging Hebron.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast - 2026-10-24 “Israel is planning a full-scale assault on the largest city in the West Bank under the pretense of protecting soldiers.”
🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast)
M1209 · first seen 2026-10-25 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works