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  Israel has a few factors that intensify this particular effect. Their government playing into it constantly is certainly part of it. Also, Jewish people made up notable minorities in many countries, but majorities in zero, between about 586 BCE and 1948 CE. The insular nature of those minority communities made them an easy scapegoat for a lot of groups for those ~2500 years, so a lot of cultural significance was put into the perceived need to be a majority somewhere. Unfortunately, a lot of peop...

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  https://youtu.be/YrHGbCyAqOU I can't be gay, I'm nonbinary.

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  No, the DMCA (which does overall suck) has severe penalties for false takedown requests. It also has severe penalties for failing to honor takedown requests, though, so YouTube made its own system that is decidedly *not* DMCA and allows any big company to take down videos with impunity regardless of whether their claims have any merit.

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  This is a popular strategy for police brutality.