Analogies to terror: The construction of social problems in Israel during the Intifada Al Aqsa

Terrorism and Political Violence

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 389-398

  Cromer, Gerald ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Analogies to terror; Social problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745840862     PISSN: 09546553     EISSN: 15561836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09546550600751958     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Herbert Blumer, "Social Problems as Collective Behavior," Social Problems 18, no. 3 (Winter 1971): 298-306.
2. Malcolm Spector and John I. Kitsuse, Constructing Social Problems (Menlo Park, CA: Cummings, 1977).
3. Joseph W. Schneider, "Social Problems Theory: The Constructionist View," Annual Review of Sociology 11(1985): 234.
4. Joel Best, "Rhetoric in Claims Making: Constructing the Missing Children Problem," Social Problems 24, no. 2 (April 1987): 101.
5. Peter R. Ibarra and John I. Kitsuse, "Vernacular Constituents of Moral Discourse: An Interactionist Proposal for the Study of Social Problems," in James A. Holstein and Gale Miller, eds., Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social Problems Theory (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1995), 17-31.
6. For a review of these and other studies of social problems discourse, see Donileen R. Loseke, Thinking About Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1999).
7. See, for instance, William A. Gamson and Kathryn E. Lasch, "The Political Culture of Social Welfare Policy," in Shimon E. Spiro and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, eds., Evaluating the Welfare State: Social and Political Perspectives (New York: Academic Press, 1983), 397-415;
8. Best (see note 4 above), 101-121.
9. and David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford, "Ideology, Frame Resonance, and Participant Mobilization," International Social Movement Research 1 (1988): 197-217.
10. Stephen Hilgartner and Charles Bosk, "The Rise and Fall of Social Problems: A Public Arenas Model," American Journal of Sociology 94, no. 1 (July 1988): 53-78.
11. Murray Edelman, Constructing the Political Spectacle (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988): 28.
12. See, for instance, Abraham Dawidowicz, "Is There Organized Crime in Israel?: A Case Study of a Debate about Social Problem Definition" (unpublished M.A. thesis, Bar Ilan University, 1995)
13. and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, "The Prevalence of Drug Abuse in Israel: A Sociological Hypothesis," Crime and Social Deviance 17 (1989): 75-85.
14. See, in particular, Eli Avraham, "Social-Political Environment, Journalism Practice and Coverage of Minorities: The Case of the Marginal Cities in Israel," Media, Culture and Society 24, no. 1 (January 2002): 69-86.
15. This term is taken from Best (see note 4 above): 108.
16. Neil C. Livingstone, The War Against Terrorism (Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1979), 60.
17. Yediot Achronot, 12 Nov. 2003.
18. See, for instance, Loseke (see note 6 above), 74-77.
19. Nils Christie, "The Ideal Victim," in Ezzat A. Fattah, ed., From Crime Policy to Victim Policy (London: Macmillan, 1986), 17-30.
20. These quotations are taken from articles that appeared in Yediot Achronot, 12 Dec. 2003.
21. Protocol no. 27 of the Parliamentary Committee on Social Gaps in Israel, 6.
22. See, for instance, the coverage of all three newspapers on 8 Dec. 2003, the first day of a national campaign against drug abuse.
23. See, in particular, Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider, Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (St. Louis, MO: C.V. Mosby, 1980), 25-28.
24. Latet-Israeli Humanitarian Aid, Annual Report 2003.
25. Yediot Achronot, 24 Nov. 2004.
26. This was particularly the case in the press coverage of the "Bat Ayin Underground," the members of which were accused and subsequently found guilty of planning to blow up a school in East Jerusalem. See, for instance, Maariv, 1 Oct. 2003.
27. Maariv, Ibid. 2003.
28. Best (see note 4 above): 102.
29. These terms are taken from ibid: 115-117.
30. Ma'ariv, 12 Dec. 2003.
31. As quoted in Ma'ariv, 1 Oct. 2003.
32. Ha'aretz, 12 Dec. 2003. The attack on the Park Hotel was the precipitating cause of Operation Defensive Shield, the most extensive counter-terrorism operation during the Intifada Al Aqsa.
33. Deborah Stone, Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 148.
34. See, in particular, the widely circulated memorandum of Latet-Israeli Humanitarian Aid urging the establishment of a national council to deal with the problem of poverty.
35. Ma'ariv, 1 Nov. 2003.
36. Michael S. Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995), 461.
37. The present study therefore provides an ideal type that can be used as a yardstick against which to compare and evaluate empirical cases both in Israel and elsewhere.
38. See for instance, Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993), 396-404.
39. Hillel Nossek, Terrorism and the Mass Media (unpublished Ph.D thesis, Hebrew University of Jerusalm, 1988) pp. 148-165.
40. This concept is developed in Gerald Cromer, "Amalek as Other, Other as Amalek: Interpreting A Violent Biblical Narrative," Qualitative Sociology 24, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 191-202.
41. On this point, see Daniel Dor, Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misrepresented the Outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004)
42. and Alina Korn, "Representing Palestinian Casualties in the Israeli Press: The Case of Ha'aretz and the Intifada," Journalism Studies 5, no. 2 (May 2004): 247-262.