A Critical Discourse Analysis of Al Jazeera’s Reporting of the 2021 Israel-Palestine Crisis

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ID21185648
AuthorsHanan Ali Amaireh (0000-0003-1235-9048, Philadelphia University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Publication date2023-10-05
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Arabic-English Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1680-0982
PublisherThe Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities - APETAU (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.33806/ijaes.v24i1.559
OpenAlexW4387433949
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited8

This study is a critical discourse analysis of news coverage of the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis as reported by Al Jazeera English. In this corpus-based study, 50 news reports were analysed using Van Dijk’s ‘ideological square’ as the theoretical framework. The findings suggest that the Al Jazeera reporters reflected their personal ideology in their lexical choices, or lexicalisation, displaying either a positive or negative stance towards the crisis, with Palestinians being the ‘in-group’ and Israelis the ‘out-group’. The news reporters also framed the Palestinians—‘us’—as the innocent victims of colonisation, while the ‘other’ Israelis were negatively represented as victimisers, racists, and colonisers through an emphasis on syntactic agency. One key observation is that the Al Jazeera reporters emphasised the Palestinian narrative while also radiating personal feelings and attitudes towards the crisis. At the same time, the Israelis were silenced and derogatorily portrayed

Agency (philosophy) · Ancient history · Art · Critical discourse analysis · Feeling · Ideology · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Palestine · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Psychology · Social Psychology

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