{"id":42604,"date":"2024-02-29T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/?p=42604"},"modified":"2024-03-19T23:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T23:02:57","slug":"islamophobia-and-spectacles-of-muslim-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/global-politics\/palestine-middle-east\/islamophobia-and-spectacles-of-muslim-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamophobia and spectacles of Muslim death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"drop-cap-paragraph\">For months now, Palestinians, anti-Zionists and allies of all sorts have been speaking out against Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza, even as western leaders look away. We have to keep speaking out and the words we use matter. The language we use matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The horror in Gaza is a genocide, but it\u2019s not just a genocide against Palestinians \u2013 it\u2019s a genocide against Muslims. This is important. The Palestinian struggle is, of course, a specific political struggle for liberation from Israel\u2019s settler colonialism and military occupation and impacts both Christian and Muslim Palestinians. But the violence that is enabled and carried out against Palestinians is also made possible through anti-Muslim ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The vilification of Muslims<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We in the west have become so accustomed to Muslims being slaughtered. We\u2019ve framed them as terrorists through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/watch-live-muslim-representation-in-popular-culture-post-9-11\">popular culture<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/yes-muslims-are-portrayed-negatively-in-american-media-2-political-scientists-reviewed-over-250-000-articles-to-find-conclusive-evidence-183327\">political rhetoric<\/a> that foments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/muslim-americans-spike-hate-incidents-feels-reminiscent-post-911-islam-rcna122570\">wide-spread Islamophobia<\/a>. The world watches as thousands upon thousands of people are exterminated by the Israeli military and world leaders do nothing. These leaders, in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/power\/the-members-of-congress-who-profit-from-war\/\">profiting from such violence<\/a>, have been desensitised towards the spectacle of Muslim death. And so have we.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am an anthropology professor. When I teach my introductory course, I often have my students watch Sut Jhally\u2019s film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C-xj7FKoKFQ\">Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People<\/a><\/em>, a documentary based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Reel-Bad-Arabs\/Jack-G-Shaheen\/9781566567527\">Jack Shaheen\u2019s book<\/a> of the same name. Made in 2006, the examples used feel dated but the argument remains relevant. Widespread cinematic orientalist tropes, which frame Arabs and Muslims as terrorists, leak into our larger socio-political imagination and these representations imitate life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning with the Gulf war in 1990, and the slaughter of an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.7249\/mg441af.10?seq=2\">1,000 to 3,500<\/a> Iraqi civilians, most of my life has been shaped by US invasions of Muslim countries and the murder of Muslim civilians. By the time the \u2018war on terror\u2019 reshaped the world in 2001, Muslims were well cast as the shadowy terrorist mob \u2013 instigators and civilians were collapsed into one hoard, allowing for an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/papers\/2023\/IndirectDeaths\">4.5 to 4.6 million<\/a> civilian murders in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/global-politics\/war\/bodies-and-bombs-in-peshawar-pakistan-war-on-terror-colonialism\/\">post-9\/11 war zones<\/a>, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the world scrolls through genocide across the world \u2013 ethnic cleansing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/global-politics\/africa\/sudan-from-revolution-to-war\/\">Sudan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2023\/06\/01\/ethiopia-ethnic-cleansing-persists-under-tigray-truce\">Ethiopia<\/a>, Uighurs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/9\/1\/un-potential-crimes-against-humanity-in-chinas-xinjiang\">disappeared<\/a> in China, the occupation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/india-repression-persists-jammu-and-kashmir\">Kashmir<\/a> and, as always, Palestine. Every day, we watch people die. And not just people \u2013 Muslim people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anti-semitism weaponised?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past four months, there has been a surge in both Islamophobia and anti-semitism in the US, the UK and across Europe. Given our entwined histories of oppression, Jews and Muslims could (and should) be partners in fighting all forms of hate, including Islamophobia and anti-semitism. Instead, many recent claims of anti-semitism are actually Zionist-driven attacks on free speech, which are rooted in Islamophobia and used to silence critiques of Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, anti-semitism is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/12\/6\/anti-zionism-is-antisemitism-us-house-asserts-in-dangerous-resolution\">used as a weapon<\/a> across US college and university campuses, as when two university presidents, first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/governance\/executive-leadership\/2023\/12\/11\/missteps-antisemitism-prompt-penns-president-resign\">Liz Magill<\/a> of the University of Pennsylvania and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2024\/jan\/03\/racist-rightwing-attacks-claudine-gay-former-harvard-president\">Claudine Gay<\/a> of Harvard University, were forced to resign in large part because they refused to agree with Representative Elise M Stefanik\u2019s claim that chanting \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishcurrents.org\/what-does-from-the-river-to-the-sea-really-mean\">from the river to the sea<\/a>\u2019 or \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/573654\/intifada-arabic-israeli-hamas-war-meaning-linguistics\/\">intifada<\/a>\u2019 was a call for Jewish genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Couched in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/24010858\/republicans-antisemitism-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-jewish-students\">false concern<\/a> for the safety of Jewish students, these attacks are merely part of a conservative war against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives (which many Zionists have now signed on to). The comfort and safety of Jewish students on US college campuses (and Jews across the country and around the world) has become a pawn used by conservatives to dismantle free speech, whether in the classroom or by criminalising student protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind, it should be glaringly obvious that this seeming-concern for growing anti-semitism is a Zionist project that exists alongside an acceptance, justification and even acceleration of Islamophobia, as well as the utter silencing of Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center rp-full-width rp-quote has-grey-color has-pale-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-antonio-font-family\" style=\"padding-top:2%;padding-right:2%;padding-bottom:2%;padding-left:2%;font-size:clamp(1.743rem, 1.743rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.571), 3rem);\">We in the west have become so accustomed to Muslims dying<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zionism is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2020\/7\/7\/israel-is-a-settler-colony-annexing-native-land-is-what-it-does\">settler-colonial project<\/a> and colonists are not imaginative. They shape their world through violence and dispossession. This means they can only assume that, if their occupation were to end, the people they once subjugated would use similar acts of genocide as retaliation \u2013 captured in the maxim \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/ben-gvir-praises-settler-who-killed-palestinian-in-clash-should-get-medal-of-honor\/\">they will kill us if we don\u2019t kill them first<\/a>\u2019. White enslavers in the US made such an argument against emancipation and white South Africans made it against dismantling apartheid. Furthermore, and because of Islamophobia, Hamas and Palestinians have been collapsed in ways that cast the entire population as a threat and therefore worthy of extermination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just because Israel is a settler state with genocidal intent does not mean that the fight for Palestinian liberation is itself genocidal. In the face of apartheid and oppression, resistance is not only justified, it is vital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have to heed the call from Palestinians for their land and lives to be free, from the river to the sea. And we have to call out the rampant Islamophobia that is silencing discourse, enabling genocide and framing anti-semitism as our largest global threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our words matter. We have to use them. Not only must we all call for a free Palestine, we must also start speaking directly to the global indifference to Muslim death and suffering that is allowing the genocide in Gaza to continue, even as the world watches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">This article first appeared in Issue #243\u00a0<em>Palestine<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/subscriptions.redpepper.org.uk\/\">Subscribe<\/a> today to support independent socialist media and get your copy hot off the press!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad-faith policing of anti-semitism has led to rampant Islamophobia. 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