Lesley Graham

Senior lecturer in English at the University of Bordeaux. Past president of French Society of Scottish Studies @SFEEcossaises Occasional conference interpreter.

[Leland Gaunt🎈 @dalebarbie2]

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[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

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.

[Lesley Graham @lezzles]

@RoryStewartUK @RestIsPolitics 👏 👏 👏

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

This is rather brilliant:

[R.L. Stevenson @RLSte]

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

[Lesley Graham @lezzles]

@CAPittard I loved it

[Front Républicain @FrontRep]

Le 30 juin, faisons le choix de rester ensemble.

[Lesley Graham @lezzles]

It's almost time to head off to Bochum for RLS2024, the biennial Robert Louis Stevenson conference. This year, the theme is Intertextual Stevenson.

https://t.co/1NvJWotsqM

[Lesley Graham @lezzles]

Ditto France

[JonnyValleyBoy @JonnyValleyBoy]

"When I speak of Fascism in England, I am not necessarily thinking of Mosley and his pimpled followers.

English Fascism, when it arrives, is likely to be of a sedate and subtle kind,

Presumably, at any rate, at first,

It won’t be called Fascism..."

#Orwell

[Lesley Graham @lezzles]

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

[Lesley Graham @lezzles]

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

[Ink Sweat & Tears @InkSweatTears]

Lesley Graham / @lezzles takes us to those 'opening-out places' and we love it. 'Risorgimento' on https://t.co/2IK0bd2lTt #poem

[Lesley Graham @lezzles]

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

[Lesley Graham @lezzles]

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

[R.L. Stevenson @RLSte]

RLS 2024: Intertextual Stevenson, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Preliminary Programme, https://t.co/OdtUzMTLo5

[IASSL @IASSL_ScotLit]

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

[Lesley Graham @lezzles]

@BryonyCoombs That looks fabulous!

[Nasim Marie Jafry 🍉 @velogubbed]

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: https://t.co/3qXTeWcn4k Fascinating and gratifying to see your work read so closely.

[. @remyduthille]

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
https://t.co/G0PBSt1suk

[Liam McIlvanney @LiamMcIlvanney]

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