US and Israeli conservatives jointly framed the global Arab terrorist threat
Evidence
As part of the effort to restore US hegemony, conservatives in the United States and Israel played a central role in advancing a counterterrorist program and imperialist agenda on a global scale. Two crucial conferences organized by the Israeli Jonathan Institute (discussed in Chapter 4) played a role in the development of the global “Arab terrorist” as a threat to democracy. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 237
Categorization
- XREF: Directly corroborates the imperial-policy thesis from Aziz/Razack/Rana — names the Jonathan Institute as the institutional conduit between Israel and US counterterrorism. — connects to: Neoconservatives paired with Israel’s Likud to frame the terrorist as an enemy of civilization; Neocons partnered with Likud to frame the terrorist as a civilizational threat — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 432; The Arab and Islamic terrorist archetype originated from the neocon-Likud alliance after 1979 — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 473 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Neocons partnered with Likud to frame the terrorist as a civilizational threat
#corroborates(0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 432 - Neoconservatives paired with Israel’s Likud to frame the terrorist as an enemy of civilization
#corroborates(0.92) - The Arab and Islamic terrorist archetype originated from the neocon-Likud alliance after 1979
#expands(0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 473 - US foreign policy reframed Arab resistance to hegemony as racial terrorism
#corroborates(0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 607