{"id":5174,"date":"2022-06-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:20:49","slug":"israels-linguistic-acrobatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2022\/06\/israels-linguistic-acrobatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s linguistic acrobatics [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No amount of Israeltalk can whitewash Israeli crimes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am careful about recommending books. Everyone\u2019s time is precious. My commending Alex McDonald’s H<\/em>ow I Learned to Speak Israel: An American\u2019s Guide to a Foreign Policy Language<\/em><\/a>, and its sequel, When They Speak Israel: A Guide to Clarity In Conversations About Israel<\/em><\/a> to your attention in a single review, then, means I found them to be beyond impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDonald writes, \u201cLanguage has consequences.\u201d Then, as Mr. McDonald skillfully dissects the discourse on Israel and Palestine, that statement begins to seem wildly understated. McDonald\u2019s analysis explains in detail how Israel and the West have used language, discourse, and narrative framing to camouflage a never-ending stream of the dispossession of Palestinians, including institutionalized discrimination, human rights abuses, military occupation, and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Reviews<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, learning is a journey, and this is the story of one person’s journey, a story that will surely enlighten scores more as they pursue the best way to speak truth to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

English:<\/strong> Medium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Arabic:<\/strong> Wattan News<\/a> and Alhadath<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex McDonald’s website:<\/strong> speakisrael.info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am careful about recommending books. Everyone\u2019s time is precious. My commending Alex McDonald’s\u00a0How I Learned to Speak Israel: An American\u2019s Guide to a Foreign Policy Language,<\/em> and its sequel,\u00a0When They Speak Israel: A Guide to Clarity In Conversations About Israel<\/em> to your attention in a single review, then, means I found them to be beyond impressive. McDonald writes, \u201cLanguage has consequences.\u201d Then, as Mr. McDonald skillfully dissects the discourse on Israel and Palestine, that statement begins to seem wildly understated. McDonald\u2019s analysis explains in detail how Israel and the West have used language, discourse, and narrative framing to camouflage a never-ending stream of the dispossession of Palestinians, including institutionalized discrimination, human rights abuses, military occupation, and so much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[948,942],"tags":[1201,1200,319,1198,114,1199,1275],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-sams-writings","tag-alex-mcdonald","tag-george-orwell","tag-hasbara","tag-how-i-learned-to-speak-israel-an-americans-guide-to-a-foreign-policy-language-book","tag-language-linguistics","tag-when-they-speak-israel-a-guide-to-clarity-in-conversations-about-israel-book","tag-zionism-zionists"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7292,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions\/7292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}