I agree with this assessment, but I was speaking more to a certain subconscious response to antisemitism which is to confirm other people's negative presumptions about Jews in exchange for their approval. Playing the "good Jew," basically. I'm not sure the author quite does that here, but it explains the tendency among a certain sect of Israeli society to obsess over the wrongs of the IDF. Any fair society should monitor its own wrongdoings, but amplifying them to the world to make yourself seem superior really rubs me the wrong way.