Absolutes have no place in conflict resolution

Once again Zoe Lawlor resorts to a distorted interpretation of reality to reinforce a hypocritical boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. 

To reinforce the BDS polemic Ms Lawlor introduces a flawed nexus which links personal narrative, moral relativism and political absolutism in order to impose a positive prejudice, or moral ambiguity on terrorist incidents like the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli civilians on Monday April 18.

Her deliberate choice of emotive terms such as “murder by the Israeli military”, and “occupation, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and siege” is a coded BDS language designed to portray Israelis as an inhumane collective that commits indiscriminate atrocities. Foucault identified that this type of prejudicial narrative cannot “be established, consolidated, nor implemented without the production, accumulation, circulation and functioning of discourse”.