In Zionist Discourse and Terminology

Description

This book is an attempt to emphasize a pivotal issue: the issue of terminology, or the naming of phenomena and things. Terminology conceals concepts, and these concepts may be biased against us if the one who coined the term is hostile to us and their view of reality ignores us and disregards our rights. When Zionists refer to “Palestine” as “Israel” and to “Jerusalem” as “Yerushalayim,” and when they speak of “Israel’s security” or “its borders,” they usually imbue these terms with a biased, even hostile, meaning against us. Hence the necessity of understanding and confronting this dimension of terminology. This is what this study attempts to achieve by presenting broad theoretical and methodological frameworks and some practical applications.