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Christa Blackmon and Joe Catron - In the age of the modern nation-state, language cannot be separated from politics. In cases of violent conflict the words we use to justify or condemn often carry traces of that violence. The words in our conflict vocabulary bear the scars of fierce battles over their relationship to reality, their appropriate context, and their legitimacy. In Israel-Palestine, there is perhaps no word more embattled today than “apartheid”.

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