Many Jews feel guilty for a completely invented scenario promulgated by terrorists who want us to bend our necks to be slaughtered, God forbid.

Internal trauma to Jews from the “Gaza Genocide” Big Lie:

Despite our many achievements, Jews are a marginalized group. As such, we are especially vulnerable, not just to bias and discrimination, but also to gaslighting.

After October 7, there was a campaign to cast Israel’s defensive measures as a deliberate effort to genocide the entire Gazan population.

The media and alternative media presented a relentless stream of stories and images which were duly mirrored by “official bodies” in bed with the very terrorists who committed the invasion. That’s you, UN Human Rights Council.

Right in my own hometown, posters of the kidnapped hostages were torn down and new posters accusing Israel of harming Gazans were glued on in their place.

A global gaslighting attack.

When the dominant voices of your society blame you for things you didn’t do, it’s easy to start wondering if the accusers are right.

You might find yourself questioning your own memory or personality, thinking that if you just acted differently or worked harder at “peace” with brutal, relentless terrorists, the unfair treatment, i.e. nonstop war, would stop.

This questioning causes you to internalize the terrorists’ false narrative, leading you to believe that you are the problem rather than the system around you.

They want the Jews to simply surrender, be enslaved, and then be slaughtered at will.

Just ask them.

For Israel, this cycle is incredibly draining. Not only do they have to defend themselves militarily, but they also must spend all their energy constantly monitoring their own behavior to avoid being “at fault.”

They start to believe that if they could just be perfect, they wouldn’t be mistreated.

In reality, the mistreatment isn’t about Israel’s actions at all—it’s about a system that invalidates their experience, their very right to exist without being harmed.

We saw this in the treatment of former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky by the U.N. Human Rights Council.

By constantly telling Israel that her description of injustice is a priori evidence of being “genocidal,” the system makes many Jews lose trust in theur own judgment, effectively silencing then while keeping them trapped in a cycle of self-blame.

Fortunately a lot of us are waking up.