Advocating Occupation: Outsourcing Zionist Propaganda in the UK Archived Message
Posted by johnhol on February 20, 2019, 10:22 pm, in reply to "Can anyone please add links for Best available evidence of Israeli coercion in UK politics?"
Abstract: This essay explores the rise of grassroots Zionist advocacy since 2000, when the second Palestinian intifada (lit: uprising) effectively signalled the failure of the Oslo Peace Process to deliver on its promise of Palestinian self-determination. In response, rather than working to end its military occupation of Palestinian territory, Israel set about attempting to reverse the subsequent sharp decline in its international standing, and revised its global communications strategy. Whilst initially strengthening ties with the Jewish diaspora, Israel’s longer-term objective was to conscript and resource a cohort of grassroots Zionist supporters to carry the Israeli narrative into the broader sphere of society. This paper focuses on Israel’s strategy as it affects the UK, now widely construed by Zionists as a centre for anti-Semitic activity and therefore a key battleground over discursive hegemony. More specifically, the paper highlights the efforts of two prominent grassroots advocacy organizations to recruit and coach volunteers in the art of Israeli hasbara (lit: explaining). Their mission is to counter the rising tide of pro-Palestinian sympathy in the UK as embodied by Israel’s nemesis, the Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) campaign, the grassroots pro-Palestinian movement that gained momentum from Israel’s series of military incursions into Gaza (2008-2009, 2012, 2014). The paper argues that by outsourcing Zionist propaganda to grassroots activists, and exploiting their social networks to circulate biased information, Israel is buttressing from below the British government’s customary support for Israel, and perpetuating its inertia over Israeli occupation of land allocated under international law for a future Palestinian state. Full essay: https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_529631_en.pdf
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- Can anyone please add links for Best available evidence of Israeli coercion in UK politics? - marknadim February 20, 2019, 9:33 pm
- Re: Can anyone please add links for Best available evidence of Israeli coercion in UK politics? - Ian M February 20, 2019, 9:43 pm
- Re: Can anyone please add links for Best available evidence of Israeli coercion in UK politics? - Sinister Burt February 20, 2019, 9:52 pm
- Advocating Occupation: Outsourcing Zionist Propaganda in the UK - johnhol February 20, 2019, 10:22 pm
- Important to remember UK law changes to accommodate a post cast lead visit from criminal Tzipi Livni - Si February 21, 2019, 8:03 am
- Some links - Raskolnikov February 21, 2019, 9:56 am
- Cheers all, a good hoard here nm - marknadim February 21, 2019, 11:54 pm
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