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Walton, Edmund Einar (2018)

In Our Minds A Special Land: British Labour Party Elite Discourse on Israel and Palestine in the Post-War Era

Master thesis | Middle Eastern Studies (MA)

This thesis asks why the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, has become a prominent issue within the British Labour Party. Further, it seeks to examine whether or not positions on the conflict and expressions of solidarity with the Palestinians by members of the Party follow a general trend, and which external and internal factors have brought about the relative prominence of the conflict within the Party. It uses textual and discourse analysis to examine these questions and focuses on the formation of discourses around Palestine in the elite of the Labour party in the post-war period, with a particular focus on the period following the 1973 October war.

Labour

Palestine

Israel

Author

Walton, Edmund Einar

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Modern Middle Eastern Studies

Supervisors

Schonmann, Noa

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en