Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,3 (2020) 300-310
Keywords:
Anti-Zionism
;
Language and languages Political aspects
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Public opinion
;
Communication in politics
Abstract:
With some distance from the first flood of responses to the Word Crimes special issue, it should be possible to combine debates over the strengths and weaknesses of the individual essays with analysis of what difference the collection as a whole can make in our understanding of the anti-Zionist vocabulary that has dominated a significant body of humanities and social science discourse. In actual practice, terms like ‘apartheid,’ ‘human rights,’ and ‘genocide’ intersect and interact to amplify their effect. That tends to crowd out alternative meanings. The importance of the insight, if anything, makes the fundamental irrationality and unprofessionalism of the attacks on the special issue even more stark and apparent.
Note:
Appeared also in "Hijacking the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (2022) 16-26.
DOI:
10.1080/13537121.2020.1754575
URL:
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