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ABSTRACT BOOK

Gender, Communication and Media

Why Media, Women, and Children Cry in

Palestine and Israel

Muhammad Thaufan Arifuddin

Universitas Andalas

The political ideology of revisionist-Zionism has persistently escalated the Israeli-

Palestinian May crisis 2021. This study determines the feature of Zionism and the

limitation of recent media reports in representing women and children in the

May crisis 2021. Using the post-Zionism and critical discourse analysis, I argue that

the fake history, misinterpretation of religion, and revisionist politics have

contributed to the Israeli violence, occupation, and apartheid regime. At the

same time, media representation of women and children victims did not stop

the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis. This helped to understand the governing reason of

the revisionist-Zionism that created an apartheid state of Israel in the early 20th

century and justified the occupation of the Palestinian territories since 1948

through ethnic cleansing called Nakba. This crisis has developed into bloody

wars, including the May crisis in 2021 under the support of the American regime.

As a result, although the mainstream and alternative media have partly reported

civilian casualties of women and children on both sides of the conflict,

unfortunately, the Israeli-Palestinian war has been protracted, as shown by the

2021 Israel-Palestine crisis. The mainstream media have been ineffective and

partly limited to represent the modern imperialism of Israel as the causal roots of

political catastrophe in Palestine. This study suggested enlarging an international

social media campaign against the Israeli occupation, facilitating political

change at the international level and internal Israel and Palestine to go beyond

the political conservatism, and initiating a democratic socialist state for the

Palestinians and Israelis.

Keywords: Post-Zionism, Revisionism, Critical Discourse Analysis, Media,

Representation

Short Biography:

Muhammad Thaufan A is a Ph.D. candidate at Graduate School of International

Development Nagoya University, Japan. He is also a lecturer at the

Communication Department, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Andalas

University, Indonesia. His major interests are media, politics and democracy.

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