Kaposi's Violence and Understanding in Gaza

It has not been easy to develop comprehensive understanding of this protracted conflict especially in the backdrop of time to time incidents of war/violence in Gaza. Many authors have approached the conflict with variety of perspectives. Within this context, Professor Dávid Kaposi, who works at the University of East London UK, has published the book: Violence and Understanding in Gaza: The British Broadsheets’ Coverage of the War. Here he has applied both quantitative and qualitative methods for revealing different aspects of ‘Gaza War’ (Israeli-Palestine conflict). He has also comparatively analysed the coverage of mainstream British newspapers/broadsheets of Israel-Palestine conflict dividing them into two main categories: conservatives and left liberals.

LSE Review of Books

blogs.lse.ac.uk /lsereviewofbooks/2014/11/18/book-review-violence-and-understanding-in-gazathe-british-broadsheets-coverage-of-the-war-by-david-kaposi/ Instead of asking who is innocent and who should be blamed, the media should start to treat the Israel-Palestine conflict as a story of mutually painful but very real human relations, argues Dávid Kaposi in his new book. Catherine Hezser hopes that journalists will take up Kaposi's suggestions and initiate a more complex, balanced, and historically-informed discourse on Israel and Hamas/Palestinians.

Critical Discourse Studies, 2016

Examining the British broadsheets' engagement with the armed conflict of Gaza, this book narrated a story of the war. By and large, it started with consensus. As the coverage of 'building blocks' with which the narrative of the war was constructed was examined, whatever differences we found were coloured by grey and not categorical black and white. Regardless of political affiliation, newspapers agreed on which conceptual areas and which topics within conceptual areas to prioritize. Any divergence occurred only in the shadow of these broad similarities and may therefore be judged relative rather than categorical. As for these relative differences or shades of greys, they occasionally appeared in unexpected patterns. Regarding the general importance attributed to fatalities, no left-right axis was discernible as it was the conservative Telegraph and the left-liberal Independent that referred to fatalities most frequently. And if this preference was not for the same reason, no ideological divide could be detected regarding specific categories of fatalities either: whilst the Telegraph and the Guardian displayed an interest in the nationality of the victims (focusing on Israelis or Palestinians respectively), The Times and the Independent focus more on humanitarian status (focusing on combatants or civilians respectively). What is more, even though conservative newspapers attributed more importance to topics representing action and events in war than their left-liberal counterparts, all general differences disappeared when specific categories of action were consulted. Indeed, it was the magnitude of the Telegraph's coverage of the Zeytoun incident and that of The Times regarding

2014

The Gaza Conflict 2013 and Ideologies of Israeli and Palestinian Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2015

This short report commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism examines the 2014 protests over Israel's war in Gaza, exploring the extent and degree of antisemitism in the anti-Israel protests, as well as the reporting of this antisemitism and its impact on the Jewish community. It focuses in particular on the 50 days of Operation Protective Edge. The research questions which this report attempts to address are: • What were the predominant discourses in the UK protests relating to Operation Protective Edge? • Were antisemitic discourses present? If so, how prevalent were they? • Are UK protests relating to Operation Protective Edge comparable in scale and in discourse to protests relating to other conflicts? • How do these issues relate to mainstream and Jewish media reporting on the conflict and on the demonstrations? • How do these issues and their media representation affect Jewish feelings about antisemitism?

Language is manipulated by speakers to vent out their emotions and feelings towards others. In case of friendly and loving relationship, speakers show such feelings through language. On the other hand, in times of war, the two sides in a conflict aim to win and to counter the claims of each other. Hence, the need to analyze the discourse of hate speech arises to find out the motives and the expressions used to support each side’s cause. Feeling superior, produces hate speech which causes psychological injury to the other side. It infects the mind and goes in the belief of a person by making him underestimate self and feel unwanted. A surge of hatred has been mounting between the Israelis and the Palestinians as a result of the Israeli offensive against Gaza in July 2014. Gaza war news has prevailed in the world media like the CNN, RT, and Aljazeera besides international newspapers and social media websites. The objective in this paper is analyzing hate speech as reported in the media in connection with that war. Analysis will categorize expressions in relation to their different linguistic speech acts and functions, i.e., insulting, dehumanizing, threats to kill, deception and lies. Among the elements of analysis is ideologies adopted by each side and their allies to warrant the stream of hate speech. According to Schjerve (1989: 59), ideology is the driving force of ideas based on value judgments and attitudes. The language of ideology is emotionally charged. Concepts such as ‘blood’, ‘race’, and ‘heroism’ create hotbed feeding prejudices like images of hated creatures, killing, arrogance, deception and lies. Data will be collected from news sources reporting such language from different perspectives of the key players in the war. Some media take sides and some have a balanced reporting trying to show reality on the ground. The key players are the two opponents (Israelis/ Palestinians), the US as ally to Israel, Qatar as ally to Palestinians (through aljazeera), Egypt blaming Hamas as being the military wing of Moslem brotherhood as opponent to Egypt and the key to broker a cease fire, RT is a reporting agency not biased towards Israel, the CNN presenting the views of Israel and advocating the US policy towards the Middle East and showing pictures of the conflict. Analysis shows that there is hate between the two sides and things are changing towards a transformation towards more recognition of the injustice in the conflict.

2023

Ongoing Israeli Aggression: More than a conflict with Hamas or Gaza The current war in Palestine is not restricted to the military conflict but also extends to a terminology war on the academic and media levels. This is demonstrated in the way concepts and terms are manipulated to promote a certain narrative or used in the wrong context so that they turn from a source of knowledge and a channel of awareness into a propaganda tool and a means of misleading public opinion. Since it will not be possible to examine all relevant terms, the paper will focus on three of the most crucial terms that represent the three levels of the conflict in Gaza: rights, values, and the nature of the cause. https://tinyurl.com/2p93nup9

The educational space for critical literacies in such dire situations of conflict may be in promoting critical reflection on one’s own context. In situations of conflict violent confrontation could be avoided if both sides involved read their positions critically, seeking to understand their own positions and their differences. Here we remember Paulo Freire’s reflections of the relations between “word” and “world”. Freire (2005:151) spoke of the need to move away from “naive” ways of reading the world in terms of ‘common sense’, where meanings are taken to be given, apparent and uncontested (a form of knowledge described by Freire as “made from experience”), towards a more analytical (“rigorous”) form of reading the world which Freire defined as ‘learning to listen’. This paper offers a critical literacy reading of the recent development in the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 2008

This book deals with a key aspect of television news coverage, namely the lack of contextual and historical reporting of events and the relationship between context-less reporting and opinion and attitude formation among the news public. Combining a detailed content analysis of British television news reports of the Israeli-Palestinian con¯ict during speci®c periods between 2000 and 2002 with an extensive audience study involving participants from the US, Britain and Germany, the book argues that a public exposed to current-day news coverage is often poorly informed on important issues and that such ignorance often has stark consequences. Clearly aimed at the general rather than the specialist reader, the book is divided into three parts: an overview of what the news media should cover, how the news media covers these issues, and what understanding the news audience can derive from this news coverage. The ®rst section provides a good historical overview of the Israeli-Palestinian con¯ict that highlights its contentious nature and the con¯icting views about its origins, its victims and its narratives. The historical discussion sets the stage for the second part of the book, a detailed content analysis study of news coverage of the con¯ict in which the authors use thematic analysis to document key trends arising in the coverage of events. Taking a large body of news media output (189 news bulletins in total), mostly from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, the authors come up with broad patterns of dominant perspectives in the news which they argue carry with them assumptions about cause, responsibility, blame and consequences that connect directly to wider social values and practices. Using qualitative methods of analysis, the authors examine the coverage of these news events though the analysis of different themes, based on the view that in any con¯ict there will be competing ways of describing events and their history. Here, they give several examples of an `Israeli-centric' pattern in

This paper presents a critical analysis of a piece of news broadcast by the online channel Fox news about the last violence outbreak between Israel and Palestine in 2012. This piece of news is presented as an interview with an expert in the area. However, using the vision of Chomsky about western societies and its Mass Media, this corpus is categorized as propagandistic discourse with strong ideological influence. In order to prove this ideological and propagandistic discourse, it is offered a historical contextualization of the conflict, together with an account of the relationship between Ideologies, Discourse and Politics. The linguistics evidence that support this claims is not presented alone but together with context analysis and vast evidence of the tendency of this type of discourse to hide the truth or openly lie.