We theorised that competitive victimhood—the tendency to see one’s ingroup as having suffered more than the outgroup as a result of a prolonged conflict—may function strategically as a psychological mechanism to justify violent actions against the outgroup under high (vs. low) realistic threat. Focusing on the Jewish Israeli perspective in the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict, the present study supports this argument by demonstrating the positive relationship between competitive victimhood and justifying both direct and structural violence against Palestinians following high (vs. low) realistic threat. Theoretical and applied implications for conflict resolution are discussed.

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受到威胁，因此是有道理的：犹太以色列人利用竞争性受害来为针对巴勒斯坦人的暴力辩护

我们从理论上得出竞争性受害者身份的倾向（即人们认为长期冲突导致某人的内在群体遭受的痛苦大于外在群体的这种倾向）可以在战略上发挥作用，作为一种心理机制，为在高（相对于低）现实威胁下针对外来群体的暴力行为辩护。本研究侧重于以色列与巴勒斯坦冲突中的以色列犹太人观点，通过证明竞争性受害者之间的积极关系，并证明在受到现实（高（低）低）现实威胁后针对巴勒斯坦人的直接和结构性暴力之间存在正相关关系，为这一论点提供了支持。讨论了解决冲突的理论和应用意义。