Israel election campaign stoops to toxic October 7 treason conspiracies | The Jerusalem Post
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October 7 treason conspiracies are now Israeli election fodder — raising the question of how atrocity becomes political ammunition before the bodies are even buried.
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- October 7 conspiracy theories, long circulating on the Israeli Right, have entered the formal election campaign as attack lines.
- The theories appear designed to distance the prime minister from responsibility for the massacre, framing it as betrayal rather than failure.
- The Jerusalem Post frames this as a new low — weaponizing the worst atrocity in Israel's recent history for electoral gain.
- Conspiracy narratives that assign treason shift public blame away from security and intelligence breakdowns toward named political enemies.