Goliath and David in Gaza: Indonesian myth-building and conflict as a cultural system

Ronald A. Lukens-Bull; Mark Woodward

doi:10.1007/s11562-010-0145-4

Goliath and David in Gaza: Indonesian myth-building and conflict as a cultural system

Ronald A. Lukens-Bull, Mark Woodward

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Abstract

The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is a well established part of Indonesian religio-political discourse. Anti-Zionism if not outright anti-Semitism is foundational; Israel has few friends in Indonesia. Various media reactions to the 2008-2009 Gaza attacks are placed within wider ethnographic and linguistic contexts to explore how news is spun in a cultural system of conflict. In becoming part of a cultural system of conflict, discourses about Israel take on the properties of myth.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-17
Number of pages	17
Journal	Contemporary Islam
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-010-0145-4
State	Published - Apr 2011

Keywords

Indonesia
Journalism
Myth-building
Palestine-Israel

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Cultural Studies
Religious studies

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