False Flag Narratives

Example 37: 'False flag' narratives:

A ‘false flag’ incident is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on a second party: for example, setting up a terrorist incident which can be blamed on the opposition, be it a different group or country operating under a different ‘flag’ - or inventing an incident which did not actually occur, for the same reason. ‘False flag narratives’ - accusations that incidents are ‘false flag’ - have become common on social media. For example, it has been proposed that MP Jo Cox was not murdered by an alt-right racist, but by pro-EU forces aimed at portraying the British right as unhinged and dangerous.

False flag narratives are an attempt to eliminate stories which are likely to discredit your own point of view. If an antisemite suggests that an antisemitic incident did not occur, or was staged by an agent provocateur, someone paid by Mossad etc., then they spread the view that antisemitism is not a real problem. Such false flag narratives are completely without foundation; they are lies, and often elaborate ones.

In the first example below, of course, two Palestinians were eventually convicted for the car bomb which exploded outside the London Israeli Embassy in 1994, injuring 20 people. In the second example Israel is blamed for causing 9/11 as a false flag incident, in order to get the US to 'go after Iraq'.