Un exemple d’inversion victimaire : l’accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes dérivées
The analysis of victimhood studied in this text is based on the accusation of ritual murder launched against the Jews. This accusation allows for the construction of Jews haters as victims. Thus, it justifies and legitimizes the measures of expulsion and extermination of the Jews since the 12th cent...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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University of Tel-Aviv
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Argumentation et Analyse du Discours |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/aad/3500 |
| Summary: | The analysis of victimhood studied in this text is based on the accusation of ritual murder launched against the Jews. This accusation allows for the construction of Jews haters as victims. Thus, it justifies and legitimizes the measures of expulsion and extermination of the Jews since the 12th century. We analyze here the sources of a victim inversion that has occurred at the time of Christian anti-Judaism and which is being constantly performed nowadays in the discourses legitimizing violence against Jews and against the Jewish state. This phenomenon has become a well-oiled mechanism run for centuries; it is currently in use in some media discourses and on social networks. It enacts the self-victimization of a group (the haters of the Jews) through criminalizing narratives of another group (the Jews) which is innocent. In this script, the imaginary victims are substituted to the real victims and makes the latter responsible for the real or potential misfortunes of the world by attributing them criminal intentions. Once the figure of the imaginary executioner is created and embedded in the collective representations, it becomes legitimate to take revenge on him by eliminating him. |
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| ISSN: | 1565-8961 |