The global war on terror ideology originated in Israeli religious-right domestic politics

Evidence

While the 1984 International Conference on Terrorism was held in Washington, DC, signaling that the United States would lead the world in the war on terrorists, its origins were in Israel. Israel was going through a series of changes in the 1980s. In the mid-1970s, the parties of the religious right (the haredim) started to play a greater role in domestic politics. These parties were also responsible for raising the level of hateful rhetoric against non-Jews. One rabbi stated: … Arabs are a cancer, cancer, cancer in the midst of us … There is only one solution, no other, no partial solution: the Arabs out! Out! … Let me become defense minister for two months and you will not have a single cockroach around here. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 445

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s imperial-policy frame by showing the genesis narrative — the ‘war on terror’ as an export, not an American invention. — connects to: The global Arab terrorist image was produced by empire crisis and counterinsurgency with Israel — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 203; Postwar modernization theory and the Israel partnership produced the Arab terrorist race — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 103; The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoconservatives paired with Israel’s Likud to frame the terrorist as an enemy of civilization #corroborates (0.88)
• The Islam-fascism equation derived from Likud-style Zionism among neoconservatives #corroborates (0.85)
• Israeli-organized conferences shaped the racialized terrorism narrative #corroborates (0.85)
• Neoconservatives and Israel pushed Islamism as the post-Soviet enemy #corroborates (0.82)
• The War on Terror exported Muslim-suspicion doctrine that nations adapted locally #expands (0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 67
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain #corroborates (0.75)
• War-on-terror ideology theory derives from Cold War totalitarianism theory #contradicts (0.75)
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash #expands (0.75)
• The global war on terrorism rhetorically morphed into a war on Islam and Muslims #expands (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 43
• The War on Terror globally embedded a racialized terrorist stereotype of Muslims #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1120
• The War on Terror fragmented into connected systems of global Muslim subordination #expands (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 73
• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims #expands (0.72)
• The War on Terror functions as an imperial project spreading Islamophobia globally #expands (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 43