Well, the law of averages was bound to catch up with Glenn, and it has in this posting here, a bit of a catchall. Item 5 of Glenn’s list includes the following shout out, regarding a critique of the latest critical fave rave on cable, Homeland:
“…Columbia Professor Joseph Massad, in Al Jazeera, has a scathing and fascinating attack on the show’s politics; it’s well worth reading, though I actually disagree with parts of it (though not all) quite vigorously: that show is, in some ways, surprisingly nuanced, even somewhat subversive ….”
The story of Arabs and Muslims and the Western and especially the American media has been told too many times before. The history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in Hollywood films, in television programs, on network news, or in major and minor American print media has been studied, analysed, criticised, and defended in books, research papers, and media commentary for decades. This also applies to the more virulent Israeli Jewish racist representations of Arabs and Muslims, not only in the Israeli media, school curricula, and all cultural artifacts that Israeli Jewish society produces, but also by actual and ongoing Israeli Jewish policies towards Arabs inside and outside Israel.
