Steinberg, Gerald M. “Postcolonial Ideology, Political NGOs and the Arab – Israeli Conflict.” Ed. Brigitte Bailer. Israel – Geschichte und Gegenwart 24; Politiche Wirklichkeit (2009).

[Abstract]

"Postcolonialism is an integral part of the dominant analysis of the Arab-Israel conflict, and is significant in explaining the anti-Israeli bias of some academics, journalists, NGO officials, and diplomats. This ideological bias fuels the conflict, providing additional “soft power” to the Palestinians (as well as to Hezbollah, as seen in the 2006 Lebanon war), and in increasing the Israeli sense of isolation and discrimination, including antisemitism. As a result, progress towards peace, based on compromise and mutual accommodation is dependent on recognizing and refuting this bias. A political ideology that gives one side support, and justification for mass violence, and which erases the historical record of Arab rejectionism, which began long before the 1967 war, is incompatible with ending the conflict."