In order to answer our research question to what extent can a social movement like
Breaking the Silence use its position in the global public sphere to create awareness and gain momentum in a local conflict we have chosen to divide the project into three
parts.
In the first part our focus was on positioning our curiosity within the field of social movements in a globalised world, and outline why we have chosen to use an organisa- tion like BtS as the case to examine in order to meet this curiosity.
Furthermore we have in the first part of the project outlined both the historical and contemporary context BtS is working within. This outline showed us that the context BtS is working within is extremely complicated and with many nuances rooted in as- pects of culture, religion and struggles over territory. What this part also outlined was that the conflict between Israel and Palestine is not only a local conflict, but also to a large extent global.
In addition to the contextual framework we have also presented the theoretical framework for the project, which was respectively notions of the global public sphere and framing. These theoretical frameworks were presented in order to get a better un- derstanding of how we were going to approach the question on to what extent BtS can use their position in the global public sphere to gain momentum in the local Israeli sphere.
In the second part of the project we first analysed how and to what extent BtS has po- sitioned itself in the global public sphere by outlining how they use social media and Internet platforms to spread their testimonies all over the world. Secondly before ana- lysing the specific frames, we outlined how injustice is used as an overall frame. Hereafter we continued with an analysis of what frames BtS is using. Here we identi- fied how juridical, political and emotional framing were the most dominant frames.
According to juridical framing it became clear that BtS is using juridical fram- ing to make the global public sphere aware of how for example aspects of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Children are violated by IDF on their missions within the Occupied Territories. Furthermore analysing juridical framing showed how BtS is using Human Rights and international law to collaborate and gain support from other organisation.
Analysing BtS’s use of political framing showed how they in a political con- text position themselves as some kind of victims when approaching the government’s critique of their authenticity. Furthermore they use the political framing to encourage other organisations to speak up. At the end of the analysis of the political framing we have been outlining how BtS uses Judaism to question whether Israel can be a Jewish state as long as they maintain the Occupations, which BtS regards as illegal.
The last part of our analysis is concerned with BtS’s use of emotional framing to cre- ate awareness about the situation in the Occupied Territories. This part of the analysis gave us an impression of how BtS for example uses children, the notion of belonging, and deprivation of homes in order to make the global public sphere aware of the mis- sions carried out by IDF. We came to the conclusion that they use the abovemen- tioned framing elements because these are elements, which is easily adopted and un- derstood in large parts of the world.
After analysing which frames BtS is using, we have been discussing how their fram- ing is positioning them both in the global public sphere, but also in the local Israeli society. We outlined how BtS is gaining great momentum and awareness in the global public sphere by framing the missions by IDF in the Occupied Territories politically, juridically and emotionally, but when creating awareness in the Israeli Public Sphere we discussed, they are fairly more challenged. The most critical voices of the work of BtS is to be found within the Israeli Public Sphere - here they are accused of being unfaithful to facts and that the organisation is only speaking the case of their interna- tional donors. The arguments used against BtS are very pro IDF with a special em- phasis on protection from terrorists and the securitisation of the state of Israel.
We argue that religion and the notion of Judaism could be one of the successful frames used by BtS in the local Israeli sphere, because as outlined both in the analysis and the discussion, they frame the state of Israel as incapable of being a state for the Jewish people as long as they maintain the occupations, because it is illegal in the name of Judaism.
This leads us to the final note and the answer to our research question - to what extent is BtS capable of creating momentum in the local Israeli sphere by using its position in the global public sphere? With a point of departure in our analysis and discussion we argue that at this point, BtS has very limited opportunities to use their position in the global public sphere in an Israeli context, because the notion of the state and the protection of it, is still limiting the endorsement of the awareness BtS is trying to cre- ate.
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