Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair [Paperback]

A study of the media coverage of the Yemenite Babies Affair - the story of the alleged kidnapping of hundreds of Yemenite babies from their families upon arrival to Israel in the early 1950s. Examining?the role played by the media and by racism, this book is part of a growing trend to expand perspectives within Israeli scholarship.Introduction: The Personal, the Political and the Theoretical Official Narratives, New Historians, and the Untold Mizrahi History Israeli Media: History, Ownership and the Politics of Mizrahi Representation Mapping the Media Coverage of the Yemenite Babies Affair? Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict? Israeli Media and the Articulation of Resistance: Rabbi Meshulam's Revolt Politics of Difference, Multiculturalism and the Imaginary Community: Future Implications of the Unresolved Yemenite Babies Affair

In treating this subject, Madoni-Gerber provides an intriguing case study for what has befallen other isolated minorities worldwide when thrust into modern societies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. - CHOICE

As a feminist legal realist theorist, I find [Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict] to be a pioneering document both academically and symbolically. It challenges three main interrelated and established themes, which I consider to be central in the process of post-colonialist writing: the academic importance of the substance researched and the methodologies deployed, the symbolic significance of who is writing, and the notion of resistance. - Claris Harbon, Holy Land Studies

Few books today raise more profoundly disturbing questions about identity, internal orientalism, modes of unofficial censorship, and the government of Israel than this brave and important book. - Steven C. Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Society and Director, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University, USA

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