Palestinian Movement Mobilization in International Media 1917-2025
Short description
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian national liberation movement has extended beyond physical struggle to encompass a battle over ideas, representation, rhetoric, and imagery. International media plays a central role in shaping perceptions and debates, influencing how actors and the conflict’s historical origins are framed. However, no previous studies have systematically traced the historical development of media representations across the entire conflict or examined the interplay between media and social movements.
About the research
This three-year project addresses a research gap by covering the period from 1917 to 2025, focusing on two key delimitations:
- The representation of Palestinian movement mobilization.
- Selected media in Britain and Sweden.
Through a systematic, comparative, and contextual analysis of established media representations and movement texts, the project offers a unique historical overview of how Palestinian movement mobilization has been represented in the media. The overarching aim is to examine the struggle over these representations.
The main research questions are:
- How is Palestinian movement mobilization represented in mainstream British and Swedish media, and how does this relate to the movement’s self-representation in its own texts and media?
- What similarities and differences exist between British and Swedish media in their portrayals of the movement?
- To what extent, and in what ways, have these representations evolved over time?
Participating researchers
Håkan Thörn (projektledare), Professor of Sociology
Ludvig Sunnemark, Postdoc