TY - CHAP
T1 - Fanning the Flames or a Troubling Truth? The Politics of Comparison in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
AU - Turner, Mandy
PY - 2019/11/7
Y1 - 2019/11/7
N2 - The politics of comparison in the Israel-Palestine conflict is largely encapsulated in the use of two analogies. The first is the ‘Holocaust-Hitler analogy’ used by Israel and its supporters, which portrays Israel as a beleaguered nation surrounded by Nazi sympathisers who seek to destroy it as the Jewish homeland. The second is the ‘apartheid analogy’, which compares the conflict to that of Apartheid-era South Africa and portrays Palestinians as being the victims of racism and settler colonialism. This article analyses why, how and with what desired impact these two comparisons are invoked.
AB - The politics of comparison in the Israel-Palestine conflict is largely encapsulated in the use of two analogies. The first is the ‘Holocaust-Hitler analogy’ used by Israel and its supporters, which portrays Israel as a beleaguered nation surrounded by Nazi sympathisers who seek to destroy it as the Jewish homeland. The second is the ‘apartheid analogy’, which compares the conflict to that of Apartheid-era South Africa and portrays Palestinians as being the victims of racism and settler colonialism. This article analyses why, how and with what desired impact these two comparisons are invoked.
KW - Israel-Palestine conflict
KW - conflict comparisons
KW - conflict narratives
KW - apartheid
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/7bd3bd50-afa9-378a-ba74-68d8ade6b50b/
U2 - 10.4324/9781003179405-4
DO - 10.4324/9781003179405-4
M3 - Chapter
SN - 1369-8249
VL - 21
T3 - Civil Wars
SP - 53
EP - 77
BT - Civil Wars
PB - Routledge
ER -