The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the British Press

Ruth Sanz Sabido

The Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict in the British
Press
Ruth Sanz Sabido
Canterbury Christ Church University
Canterbury, UK

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For my mother, Pepa, and my brother, Enrique
Acknowledgement of Previous Publication

An earlier version of sections in Chapter 2 was published in:

Sanz Sabido, R. (2016) “Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis”.
In: Servaes, J. and Oyedemi, T. (eds.) Social Inequalities, Media, and
Communication: Theory and Roots, 55–73. New York: Lexington Books.

An earlier version of some sections in Chapters 1, 4, 7 and 8 was pub-

lished in:
Sabido, R. (2015) ‘Palestine in the British press: A Postcolonial
Critical Discourse Analysis’. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research,
8(3): 199–216, doi: 10.1386/jammr.8.3.199_1.

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 Contents

1 Introduction: The Promised Land

and a Land of Promises 1

2 Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis:

Theory and Method 19

3 Contextualising the Conflict: A Brief History

of the Land 55

4 Contextualising the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

in the News 79

5 Situating Political Violence: ‘Terrorism’ and Discourse 101

6 ‘Terrorism’ and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

in the News 121

7 Identity, Conflict and Visibility 155

8 Conclusions 181

Index 193

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 List of Tables

Table 2.1 Distribution of sampled articles per year and publication 48

Table 6.1 Frequency of the term ‘Terrorism’ per publication
in all historical samples 122
Table 6.2 Frequency of the term ‘Terrorist’ per publication
in all historical samples 123
Table 6.3 Frequency of the terms ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 1948 124
Table 6.4 Sources using the term ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 1948 127
Table 6.5 Frequency of the terms ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 1967 130
Table 6.6 Sources using the term ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 1967 132
Table 6.7 Frequency of the terms ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 1987 135
Table 6.8 Sources using the term ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 1987 136
Table 6.9 Frequency of the terms ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 2008 141
Table 6.10 Sources using the term ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 2008 143
Table 6.11 Frequency of the terms ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 2018 147
Table 6.12 Sources using the term ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Terrorist’ in 2018 148
Table 7.1 Mentions of different agents and entities in 1948 159
Table 7.2 Mentions of different agents and entities in 1967 162
Table 7.3 Mentions of different agents and entities in 1987 168
Table 7.4 Mentions of different agents and entities in 2008 171
Table 7.5 Mentions of different agents and entities in 2018 175

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