Terrorism denial
Denying [...] is not necessarily the act of denying that [...] exists, but rather the kind of revisionism which partially suggests that acts of [...] May Be justified, or through euphemism conceals the atrocity of those acts. It is a very widely used de facto prejudice.
Such recognized [...] 1 organizations as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, ETA, Irgun, Kach, Provisional Irish Republican Army etc. are commonly labeled by their supporters as a political organization or militant group. The denial has roots in prejudice, or at least in severely biased coverage.
Designations as a [...] group
Numerous governments and non-governmental organizations, specifically the media, have different standards which define what groups or organizations are considered [...] groups. For example, the US air force has one list with discrepancies from the US state department list, and the Israeli ICT maintains a separate list. There is no uniform consensus on how to label an individual group, or whether or not the actions of a state qualify the state as a "[...] state".
Methods of revisionism
When seeking to revise the narrative AbOUT a particular group, members or sympathizers of a group will campaign to:
- Have references about the group labeled in a specific euphemistic way
- Have items of historical fact removed from the narrative about the group
- Insert additional information to detract from being labelled as solely a [...] organization
- Fabricate photographs and articles which exaggerate accidental civilian casualties by Counter-Terrorists especially of Israel in order to increase sympathy for [...] organizations which deliberately attack civilians. In one particular case in the New York Times, Tuvia Grossman, an American Jew or tzabar, who was visiting Israel, was portrayed covered in blood by a photograph in the main section where a caption read that he was a Palestinian. As expressed verbatim by this letter to the editor:
Letter from Aaron Grossman to New-York Times editor: Regarding your picture on page A5 (Sept. 30) of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount - that Palestinian is actually my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while travelling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were severely beaten and stabbed. That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob. Aaron Grossman, M.D. 2
- In the recent 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict several such cases were highlighted in a Adobe Flash video: 3