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Ben Ashraf

Benjamin Ashraf

Ashraf

Benjamin Ashraf is The New Arab's Deputy Features Editor. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Jordan's Center for Strategic Studies and a member of Red Pepper's Admin Collective.

 

Areas of focus: Critical Theory, Post-Colonialism, Aesthetics, and Sound Studies.  

 

Follow him on Twitter: @ashrafzeneca

How social media is unmasking Israeli exceptionalism

The battle over optics and perception has formally migrated online, where social media has been a gamechanger in revealing the rising tide of ultra-nationalism within Israel, writes Benjamin Ashraf.

29 June, 2021