Posts Tagged: rhetoric
‘Blowback’ and the Rhetoric of Revenge
Terror apologia begins by denying the very meaning of the word terrorism, but slyly redirects the charge at the Western nations that use the word....
“It goes without saying”: the Further Rhetoric of Terrorist Apologia
When the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, then with Salon, interviewed Rene Brulin in 2010, the purpose of the conversation was to discuss Brulin's research into the...
Notes Toward a Terror Apologist’s Rhetoric (Abridged but Unexpurgated)
You have probably noticed that an enormous amount of public debate is repetition. It gets to the point - you hear the same arguments often...
When Is an Open-Air Prison a Terrorist Camp?
It is a term we hear a lot in the twenty-first century anti-Israel propaganda storm, flung wildly against the truth - that Gaza is an...
True Liberal Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian Enthymeme
In rhetoric, an enthymeme is an argument that contains an unarticulated premise. Commonly this is because the conversation is among a group of people with...
Impenetrable: The Hollow Rhetoric of Judith Butler
That title appears a contradiction. We think of the impenetrable as dense, so thick and compacted it cannot be pierced. But what is hollow is...
