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Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
Podur, Justin
http://www.countercurrents.org/podur280714.htmDate Written: 2014-07-28 Publisher: Countercurrents.org Year Published: 2014 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX16584 If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine. If you use common usage, you will run into confusions, paradoxes, and hostile responses from pro-Israel people. Please follow these guidelines and you will have no problems with editors, politicians, or organized pro-Israel groups. For each phrase, this guide will present first (a) the common usage, and then (b) the specific Israel/Palestine usage that you must use in order to write for major US (and UK and Canadian of course) media (NYT, Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, etc.) Subject Headings |