🧩 BND Motif Index · M582
Weaponized antisemitism
Accusations of antisemitism are said to be used in bad faith to silence criticism of Israel.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Antisemitism Narratives
- 10claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 8claims 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Antisemitic left 🧩 Perfidious jew 🧩 Words mean things
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 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)
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Abdul El-Sayed is targeted because he refuses to bow to Israel.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-24 “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people, and opposing that genocide is not antisemitism.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-23 “Zionism and Judaism are not the same thing: condemning the Israeli government is not antisemitic, and many Jews condemn it too.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-17 “Andy Burnham and the Labour Party are refusing to work with the Green Party because of the Greens' stance on Zionism.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “The Green Party's 'Zionism is racism' motion is being condemned as anti-Semitic and is causing political fallout.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “The UN (resolution 3379), Hannah Arendt and Holocaust survivors have all called Zionism racism.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, and the charge of antisemitism is used to silence those defending Palestinians.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “The Green Party's "Zionism is racism" motion is antisemitic and aims at Israel's destruction.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “The American media deceives the public to protect Israeli interests.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-05 “Israeli journalists and players allegedly intimidated and spat at Irish players during a Nations League match, leading to chaos and bans from media calls.” 🧶 people online
M582 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works