abstract:Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, is a collection of essays, co-edited by Palestinian scholar and advocate Edward Said and journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, published by Verso Books in 1988 (ISBN 978-0-86091-887-5). It contains essays by Said and Hitchens as well as other prominent advocates and activists including Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Janet L.
Once the jig was up on their attempts to hide the identities of the perpetrators and their victims alike, the jihadists' multicultural enablers started blamingthevictims.
Thus we trot out tried-and-true strategies of diversion and avoidance: blamingthevictims for their ills, assaulting the suffering for their sins or blasting the messenger for telling the unkind truth.