Thread: It's worth looking at how media in Arabic use the term "المستوطنين" or "settlers" regarding Israelis and Jews; it's not just used about people in the West Bank, it's used also to describe any religious Jew, used to describe a bus hitting people, and also about West Bank. 
I think the evidence shows that this word is used often as a dehumanizing term of incitement and this has parallels also in English sometimes in how the term is used.
I've seen media reports where children were killed in terror attacks in Jerusalem and they were not even from Israel and they were called "settlers"...a child can't "settle" anything. But the term is used to dehumanize.
The frequent use of it also to target Orthodox or Haredi Jews makes it clear that its not about politics and "settlers" who live in the West Bank or over Green Line...when it's used to describe victims in the Meron crowd rush...this has to do with dehumanizing.
It's worthwhile to pay close attention to terminology also in English language media. Back in 2014 this article appeared, note how the term is used without regard to where these people live or if they are "settlers" settling anything.
Note how easily it is to turn every "black-hatted" person into a "settler" even if they are a tourist from New York who is just here to see the Old City. And the claim that anyone riding the light rail or using a tunnel in Jerusalem is a "settler", even if they are tourists
It's a way to dehumanize. It doesn't ask individually if this or that adult lives in a "settlement"...it just labels a swath of people "settlers" with no regard to who they are. What are "settler commuters"...how does someone know the commuter is a "settler" or a someone else
It's easy to fall into this trap of terminology, but it's also worth to ask critical questions about it. Labelling everyone in Jerusalem who is from one group or dresses a certain way or has a certain hat or faith as a "settler" is an attempt to dehumanize.
Some media use the term in a certain way, they are denoting communities over the Green Line or activists etc...but others, and this is where it's important to be point this out, don't do this, and they label the Other as settlers and they do it for a reason.
One of the articles above referencing the "commuters" appears to refer to this incident. A baby cannot be a "settler commuter"...and that's why I believe this is dehumanizing. A child is a child. If their parents moved somewhere, it doesn't indict the kid. haaretz.com/baby-killed-8-…
And I don't believe we have anywhere else in the world where a term is used to dehumanize children like this...where children or babies are called "settlers"...and we have to ask tough questions when media do this.
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