State media can both silence immigrants and unwittingly amplify their voices

Evidence

Radio was to speak to the oriental immigrant; it tried to do so, however, by avoiding the immigrants’ Judeo-Arabic tongues, and it spoke about them in frequently patronizing tones. Nevertheless, even state-owned Israeli radio on occasion gave the new immigrants the chance to speak for themselves, and from the 1970s onward the mizrahi Israeli voice had become a formidable presence in the media, politics, and culture. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 145

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to communication theory on media as both tool of state control and platform for subaltern voices — parallels work on BBC and colonial languages.