As historian Rashid Khalidi emphasized in his book Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, “language matters.” Standard terms and tropes “are the essential building blocks of a lofty and solid edifice of denial of an entire narrative, of the existence of an entire people, which is basic to the affirmation of a formidable counterreality.”
Prominent groups, notably the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, AIPAC and Christians United for Israel – along with allies in Congress, the Executive Branch and the punditocracy – rely on the same buzzwords to defame critics of #Israel and deny its systematic crimes against #Palestinian people. For instance:
** “antisemitic”
** “blood libel”
** “held to a higher standard”
** “homeland for the #Jewish people”
** “Israel’s right to exist”
** “renounce violence”
Peter Link
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