Lesley Graham

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In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline. As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone. For example: 1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value. 2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger. 3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die". 4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying? 5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression. 6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc. 7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all. It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

@RoryStewartUK @RestIsPolitics 👏 👏 👏

Okay - to add to my record of failed predictions - I predict President Biden will announce he is stepping down in the next 48 hours (probably using Covid as a reason) - @RestIsPolitics

This is rather brilliant:

That was @RLS2024 at Ruhr University Bochum. Thank you all for a memorable conference and some great explorations of intertextual Stevenson

@CAPittard I loved it

Le 30 juin, faisons le choix de rester ensemble.

It's almost time to head off to Bochum for RLS2024, the biennial Robert Louis Stevenson conference. This year, the theme is Intertextual Stevenson. ruhr-uni-bochum.de/neuere-englisc…

Ditto France

@PhinHarper Thank you for sharing this. Wishing you all the very best.

@InkSweatTears I’m chuffed to be your featured poem today. Thank you 😊

Lesley Graham / @lezzles takes us to those 'opening-out places' and we love it. 'Risorgimento' on inksweatandtears.co.uk/lesley-graham/ #poem

@nofiltershank @CasperRuud98 @AlexZverev Block bookings for corporate clients who take their guests out to dinner. It’s scandalous. The upper tiers are all full.

@IronEconomist It’s literally the sunniest place in the UK

You could literally build one apartment building and solve decades of need. It’s true that a lot of Tiree is holiday homes, but it’s not, you, know, Prague. The number who want a holiday home on a sparsely populated island which rains constantly is low. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highla…

Somehow an entire article about the housing crisis on Tiree that doesn’t once mention building more homes.

RLS 2024: Intertextual Stevenson, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Preliminary Programme, ruhr-uni-bochum.de/neuere-englisc…

Join the French Society for Scottish Studies International Conference 'Unions/Disunions,' hosted by Nathalie Duclos and Robert Irvine, at Edinburgh University, May 2-4, 2024. Keynote by Prof Robert Crawford @SFEEcossaises @NathalieVDuclos

@BryonyCoombs That looks fabulous!

Oh my, she lives! And I could not be more excited. [I know she is a bit pricey at the moment but paperbacks will come...] Due out in August.

Thank you so much, @lezzles, for letting me know about this. What an interesting analysis in Études Écossaises bilingual journal of The State of Me, my 2008 autobiographical novel on illness: #tocto1n4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journals.openedition.org/etudesecossais… Fascinating and gratifying to see your work read so closely.

International early-career seminar Strangers and foreigners: hospitality and hostility in Britain, France, and Germany, 1680-1850 Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 3-5 April @UBMontaigne & @unidue With the support of @DFHUFA bit.ly/3TktFET

Does you good just to spend two minutes with this, doesn’t it?