🧩 BND Motif Index · M837
Call it what it is
The strong word is demanded, genocide, fascism, terrorism, and refusing to say it is read as complicity: when it's a genocide, it's a genocide. The mirror of Words mean things.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Appeals🗂️ Comebacks
- 6claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 5claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Words mean things
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Chapter and verse
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and a U.S. photojournalist during olive harvest 2026-10-16 to 2026-10-19
- 📰 Ilhan Omar resurfaces in tearful plea for money on TikTok 2026-10-23
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-23 “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-18 “People argue that Israelis occupying land should be called 'settler terrorists' rather than 'settlers'.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-17 “Israeli settlers are terrorists and occupiers who are supported by the Israeli government.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-12 “David Brooks is wrong to scold Ossoff for calling neo-Nazi-linked opponents Nazis.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-09 “Whether Israel's actions in Gaza are a genocide is argued: Cruz says it's Hamas that advocates genocide; Hasan says 'when it's a genocide, it's a genocide.'”
🎙️ HasanAbi (podcast) - 2026-10-07 “The UN (resolution 3379), Hannah Arendt and Holocaust survivors have all called Zionism racism.” 🧶 people online
M837 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works