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Accusations of malicious intent in debates about the Palestine-Israel conflict and about antisemitism The Livingstone Formulation, ‘playing the antisemitism card’ and contesting the boundaries of antiracist discourse
Author(s): Hirsh, David
Date: 2010
Topics: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Antisemitism: Left-Wing
Abstract: This paper is concerned with a rhetorical formulation which is sometimes deployed in response to an accusation of antisemitism, particularly when it relates to discourse which is of the form of criticism of Israel. This formulation is a defensive response which deploys a counter-accusation that the person raising the issue of antisemitism is doing so in bad faith and dishonestly