Latest antisemitic conspiracy theory: Israel is encouraging Arab crime ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, May 30, 2025

Latest antisemitic conspiracy theory: Israel is encouraging Arab crime

+972 Magazine is going off the deep end, again:

“Crime is a strategic project of the state, whose ultimate goal is ‘voluntary emigration’ of Palestinians,” [political activist Ameer] Makhoul argued. “This policy is not limited to Gaza or the West Bank — it also applies to Palestinian citizens living inside the Green Line. And it’s already happening, especially among educated young people and professionals in fields like medicine and high-tech.”

Makhoul pointed to the state’s deliberate inaction in tackling crime as part of a broader effort to push Palestinian citizens to the margins of public discourse. “The Israeli right, led by Netanyahu, is systematically working to push Palestinian citizens into complete despair because they are an electoral bloc that threatens his continued rule,” he said.

The article quotes a number of other activists who claim the same theory, including an anonymous Facebook post from an anonymous person that only has four comments.

A case can be made for governmental negligence on the problem of organized Arab crime, but a deliberate policy? Is the "most right wing government in Israel's history" colluding with Arab gangs to intimidate people to leave?

The government of Israel has embarked on numerous initiatives to fight this problem, including dedicating special police units, a ministerial committee. Just this week police seized millions of dollars of assets from crime families in the north of the country.

The author constructed a conspiracy theory and then wrote a story around it. And when conspiracy theories involve Jews, they are by definition antisemitic. +972 happily publishes anything to make Israeli Jews look bad, besides their own enlightened selves.

Notice also that this article does not blame Arab gangs themselves for the crimes, but Israel. The actual criminals have no moral agency. This is itself bias:: assuming that Arabs themselves somehow are natural criminals who cannot help themselves, and only Israel can stop them, is anti-Arab bigotry.