Global Journal of Human Social Science, G: Linguistics and Education, Volume 21 Issue 14

© 2021. Donna Robinson Divine. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- nd/4.0/. The Gatekeepers By Donna Robinson Divine Abstract- “The Gatekeepers” describes the reaction of a handful of well established Israel Studies scholars to a special issue of the journal Israel Studies called “Word Crimes: Reclaining the Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”. These professors preferred to denounce rather than engage with the arguments and analyses presented in the special issue deploying their authority to try to silence this challenge to the conventional discourse on the Middle East Conflict. Keywords: word crimes, israeli-palestinian conflict, academic discourse, settler colonialism, imperialism, Zionism . GJHSS-G Classification: FOR Code: 130399 TheGatekeepers Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: G Linguistics & Education Volume 21 Issue 14 Version 1.0 Year 2021 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: