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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Main Author: Pierre-André Taguieff
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: University of Tel-Aviv 2019-10-01
Series:Argumentation et Analyse du Discours
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/aad/3500
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-85421ae6d6854819991fc0f0e97024ae2022-12-21T19:30:30ZfraUniversity of Tel-AvivArgumentation et Analyse du Discours1565-89612019-10-012310.4000/aad.3500Un exemple d’inversion victimaire : l’accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes dérivéesPierre-André TaguieffThe 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.http://journals.openedition.org/aad/3500ritual murderself-victimizationvictim inversion
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Un exemple d’inversion victimaire : l’accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes dérivées
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours
ritual murder
self-victimization
victim inversion
title Un exemple d’inversion victimaire : l’accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes dérivées
title_full Un exemple d’inversion victimaire : l’accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes dérivées
title_fullStr Un exemple d’inversion victimaire : l’accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes dérivées
title_full_unstemmed Un exemple d’inversion victimaire : l’accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes dérivées
title_short Un exemple d’inversion victimaire : l’accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes dérivées
title_sort un exemple d inversion victimaire l accusation de meurtre rituel et ses formes derivees
topic ritual murder
self-victimization
victim inversion
url http://journals.openedition.org/aad/3500
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