Why is "Masada myth" trending?

Wikipedia Overview

The Masada myth is the early Zionist retelling of the siege of Masada, and an Israeli national myth. The Masada myth depicts the Zealot defenders of Masada as national heroes in the First Jewish–Roman War, who killed themselves rather than surrendering to the Roman army. Josephus, the only written source for the event, had the Sicarii as the defenders of Masada using words to describe them that have been translated as "bandits", "terrorists" and "murderers", and recorded them killing their fellow Jews rather than fighting Romans. Josephus does describe a mass suicide, though many modern scholars doubt this account. Skeletons at the site were not all found in a single location as he described it. American Archaeologist Jodi Magness has written archaeology cannot prove or disprove the account of Josephus because the human remains found can be interpreted differently.