This changed at the second International Conference on Terrorism (ICT), held in 1984 in Washington, DC. During his opening remarks, Netanyahu stated that “modern terrorism has its roots in two movements that have assumed international prominence in the second half of the twentieth century, communist totalitarianism and Islamic (and Arab) radicalism.” By this stage, Iran had come to be a thorn in Israel's side with its support for Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Arab radicalism was bracketed while Islamism took center stage.

XREF: Connects to the historical shift in framing terrorism from communist to Islamist threats in the 1980s, relevant to contemporary discourse on political rhetoric.

Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politi…, loc. 397