Israel’s human-shield rhetoric against Palestinians was copied by Putin against Ukrainians

Evidence

The slow and unseen quest for dignity unfolds in real time in the West Bank and Gaza. Unarmed Palestinians resisting state seizure of their homes in Sheikh Jarrah are conflated with armed militants, rendering them “terrorists.” The recurring killing of civilians in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes is justified by sweeping indictments that “they are Hamas” and that “Palestinian militants are using children and women as human shields,” excuses adapted by Putin in his claims that the Ukrainian resistance is spearheaded by “neo-Nazis” wielding “women and children as human shields.” Lies at worst, and gross embellishments at best, hurled at victims to make them into monsters. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1186

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s guiding question about states learning Islamophobic and dehumanizing techniques from one another; pairs with Milgrom-type institutional diffusion literature transposed into discourse.
• SEED: Angle: a piece on how dehumanizing war rhetoric — human shields, terrorists — travels between state adversaries as transferable toolkit language.