Postwar empire-building and the Israel partnership produced the racialized Arab terrorist category

Evidence

Third, systematic anti-Muslim racism emerges after World War II as new modes of controlling the MENA region, particularly modernization theory and American Orientalism, produce Arabs and Muslims as a race. Empire in crisis in the late 1960s and the strategic partnership with Israel gave rise to the global “Arab terrorist” as a threat to democracy. As various threats to empire emerge, the flexible category of “terrorist” incorporates these threats. Thus, methods of control devised to target the racialized terrorist have been used against white anti-war and Occupy Wall Street activists. Moreover, the Black Lives Matter movement has also been smeared as terrorist, and Native Americans protesting the Keystone Pipeline were targeted using counterterrorism tactics. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 91

Categorization

• XREF: Gives the causal genealogy — postwar MENA control, modernization theory, the 1967 Israel alliance — that the existing cluster needs as a dated mechanism. — connects to: Postwar modernization theory and the Israel partnership produced the Arab terrorist race — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 103; The global Arab terrorist image was produced by empire crisis and counterinsurgency with Israel — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 203; Israeli-organized conferences shaped the racialized terrorism narrative (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• The global Arab terrorist image was produced by empire crisis and counterinsurgency with Israel #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 203
• Postwar modernization theory and the Israel partnership produced the Arab terrorist race #corroborates (0.92) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 103
• Israeli-organized conferences shaped the racialized terrorism narrative #expands (0.88)
• Postwar US imperialism, not older white supremacy, created the racialized Muslim threat. #corroborates (0.82)
• Terrorism racialization evolved from Arabs to Iranians and South Asians from the late 1960s #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 215
• US cold-war policymakers racialized Arabs as inherently prone to extremism #corroborates (0.80)
• The flexible terrorist category is repurposed against domestic movements threatening empire #expands (0.78)
• Truman-era aid policy racialized Arabs as irresponsible extremists by nature #responds-to (0.75)
• American imperialism, Orientalism, coercive assimilation, and White supremacy jointly produce racialized Muslim categories #complicates (0.74) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 80