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How the West’s literary elite distorted language to justify their bizarre embrace of jihadism

Summarizing Jewish Chronicle · Published Friday, December 27, 2024
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JL;DR SUMMARY The article criticizes Western literary and cultural elites for their alleged misuse of language in portraying the Israel-Palestine conflict, particularly after the events of October 7, 2023. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Hamas  Palestinians  Historical Context  Security Measures  Propaganda  Middle East Conflict  Cultural Narratives  Language Misuse  Western Elites 

Places mentioned

Israel
"Western writers and organisations choose not to campaign for true freedom and a sustainable peace for Palestinian-Arabs."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"It is perhaps one of the biggest lies of all to pretend that Gaza is a state whose inhabitants would live free and prosperous lives if it werent for Israel and America or, simply, the West."
Egypt
"For it is thoroughly dishonest to label as apartheid or an open-air prison or, most grotesque of all given the context, a concentration camp, the heavy security and restrictions on borders between Israel and Gaza and the West Bank, without discussing either Gazas border with Egypt or the time when, in living memory, there were no such restrictions."
Lebanon
"Then in 2000-2005, in a murderous Second Intifada, hundreds of Israeli men women and children Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze alike were killed by Palestinians and many thousands injured."
Yemen
"using their privilege, in other words to lobby for the oppressors of some of the most oppressive places on Earth: Gaza under Hamas, Lebanon under Hezbollah, Yemen under the Houthis (actively trying to bring back slavery) and Iran under its Islamic regime."
Iran
"using their privilege, in other words to lobby for the oppressors of some of the most oppressive places on Earth: Gaza under Hamas, Lebanon under Hezbollah, Yemen under the Houthis (actively trying to bring back slavery) and Iran under its Islamic regime."
Qatar
"Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the terrorist groups politburo in Qatar, said they planned the October 7 assault to change the entire equation and not just have a clash, adding that we succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm."
Algeria
"Nor do they ever mention what happened to the 140,000 Algerian Jews kicked out of Algeria after 1948, or the 75,000 from Egypt, the 13,500 from Iraq, the 5,000 from Lebanon, the 38,000 from Libya, the 30,000 from Syria, the 105,000 from Tunisia, the 63,000 from Yemen and the 265,000 from Morocco and these are just the Jews who made it out alive."
Iraq
"Nor do they ever mention what happened to the 140,000 Algerian Jews kicked out of Algeria after 1948, or the 75,000 from Egypt, the 13,500 from Iraq, the 5,000 from Lebanon, the 38,000 from Libya, the 30,000 from Syria, the 105,000 from Tunisia, the 63,000 from Yemen and the 265,000 from Morocco and these are just the Jews who made it out alive."
Libya
"Nor do they ever mention what happened to the 140,000 Algerian Jews kicked out of Algeria after 1948, or the 75,000 from Egypt, the 13,500 from Iraq, the 5,000 from Lebanon, the 38,000 from Libya, the 30,000 from Syria, the 105,000 from Tunisia, the 63,000 from Yemen and the 265,000 from Morocco and these are just the Jews who made it out alive."
Syria
"Nor do they ever mention what happened to the 140,000 Algerian Jews kicked out of Algeria after 1948, or the 75,000 from Egypt, the 13,500 from Iraq, the 5,000 from Lebanon, the 38,000 from Libya, the 30,000 from Syria, the 105,000 from Tunisia, the 63,000 from Yemen and the 265,000 from Morocco and these are just the Jews who made it out alive."
Tunisia
"Nor do they ever mention what happened to the 140,000 Algerian Jews kicked out of Algeria after 1948, or the 75,000 from Egypt, the 13,500 from Iraq, the 5,000 from Lebanon, the 38,000 from Libya, the 30,000 from Syria, the 105,000 from Tunisia, the 63,000 from Yemen and the 265,000 from Morocco and these are just the Jews who made it out alive."
Morocco
"Nor do they ever mention what happened to the 140,000 Algerian Jews kicked out of Algeria after 1948, or the 75,000 from Egypt, the 13,500 from Iraq, the 5,000 from Lebanon, the 38,000 from Libya, the 30,000 from Syria, the 105,000 from Tunisia, the 63,000 from Yemen and the 265,000 from Morocco and these are just the Jews who made it out alive."
Ramallah, Ramallah and al-Bireh, Palestinian Territories
"Do any one of them ever bear witness to the Ramallah lynching in 2000 when two Israeli reservists were murdered and their bodies mutilated by Palestinian funeral marchers?"
Jordan
"Perhaps all those presses and organisations currently posing as anti-colonial might like to come to terms with the fact that Israel is a post-colonial state par excellence."

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