The 1984 conference shifted the enemy label from Arabs to state-backed Islamism
Evidence
This changed at the second International Conference on Terrorism (ICT), held in 1984 in Washington, DC. During his opening remarks, Netanyahu stated that “modern terrorism has its roots in two movements that have assumed international prominence in the second half of the twentieth century, communist totalitarianism and Islamic (and Arab) radicalism.” By this stage, Iran had come to be a thorn in Israel’s side with its support for Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Arab radicalism was bracketed while Islamism took center stage. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 397 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The 1984 conference framed terrorism as state-sponsored by Soviet Union and Iran; Islam shifted to the center of anti-terrorism discourse by 1984 — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 397; Neoconservatives and Israel pushed Islamism as the post-Soviet enemy (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Islam shifted to the center of anti-terrorism discourse by 1984
#corroborates(0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 397 - Neocons and Israel, not the whole establishment, first pushed Islamism as the new enemy
#qualifies(0.85) - Neoconservatives and Israel pushed Islamism as the post-Soviet enemy
#expands(0.80) - Neoconservatives campaigned to replace the Soviet enemy with Islamism
#responds-to(0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 414 - The Arab and Islamic terrorist archetype originated from the neocon-Likud alliance after 1979
#corroborates(0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 473 - Iran’s 1979 revolution shifted the frame from Arabs to Islamism
#qualifies(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 455 - The Islamic-terror enemy replaced the Soviet Union as an archnemesis.
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