What is it about?
This article looks at the quality of discourse about BDS - PACBI (the economic and academic/cultural boycott of Israel). We examine texts about BDS on the internet - looking at the topics that these texts discuss and the ways in which the writers and creaters discuss the Israeli-Palestinian context/conflict. We found that most of the writers take a position either for or against the boycotts and that their way of writing and presenting their ideas is ethnocentric and attacking in nature. We discuss the implications of this for achieving a socially just peace in the region.
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I find this work of mine and my co-authors to be very telling and important for understanding the implications of texts about BDS and their relation to prolonging the bloody conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. We need to find a socially just way to end the conflict and to respect all peoples in the reason. This article offers some good ideas about how to do so.
Julia Chaitin
Sapir College
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This page is a summary of: Polarized words: discourse on the boycott of Israel, social justice and conflict resolution, International Journal of Conflict Management, June 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijcma-05-2016-0029.
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