A central tactic in establishing the legitimacy of Zionism and the justification of Israeli state violence against Palestinians is to take a stance against Islamophobia to appear to be against discrimination, only to then use anti-Muslim tropes about terrorism to slander critics of Israel.

XREF: Connects to broader patterns of co-opting progressive language to legitimize state violence, a familiar rhetorical strategy in settler-colonial discourse. SEED: Potential essay angle on how liberalism's anti-racist vocabulary is repurposed to launder discriminatory positions, especially relevant to current discourse on Israel-Palestine criticism.

Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophob…, loc. 35