Israeli dehumanizing rhetoric against Palestinians was adapted by Putin for Ukrainians

Evidence

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: Connects directly to the reader’s guiding question about states learning Islamophobic techniques from one another — Putin adapting Israeli-Gazan rhetoric is a textbook case. Also resonates with the general pattern in Milgrom/Ellickson work on how techniques spread across jurisdictions.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: is there documentary evidence Putin’s press machine explicitly lifted the human-shields framing from Israeli sources, or is it parallel invention?