Structural racism and the health of Palestinian citizens of Israel

Tanous, Osama; Asi, Yara M.; Hammoudeh, Weeam; Mills, David; Wispelwey, Bram

doi:10.1080/17441692.2023.2214608

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“…Studies suggest that as many as a quarter to one half of Native women of childbearing age underwent such sterilization procedures, an overtly eliminatory process that saw a dramatic reduction in birth rates across the 1970s, dropping in some communities to levels below that necessary for population maintenance (170). A similar eliminatory logic was reflected in a recent statement by the head of cardiothoracic surgery at a major Israeli teaching hospital, suggesting that Palestinian women who are citizens of Israel should be fined after a certain number of births as a form of Native population control (171).…”

Section: Argument III Future Directions and Forerunnersmentioning

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Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Wispelwey

Tanous

Asi

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Indigenous people suffer earlier death and more frequent and severe disease than their settler counterparts, a remarkably persistent reality over time, across settler colonized geographies, and despite their ongoing resistance to elimination. Although these health inequities are well-known, they have been impervious to comprehensive and convincing explication, let alone remediation. Settler colonial studies, a fast-growing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, is a promising candidate to rectify this impasse. Settler colonialism’s relationship to health inequity is at once obvious and incompletely described, a paradox arising from epistemic coloniality and perceived analytic challenges that we address here in three parts. First, in considering settler colonialism an enduring structure rather than a past event, and by wedding this fundamental insight to the ascendant structural paradigm for understanding health inequities, a picture emerges in which this system of power serves as a foundational and ongoing configuration determining social and political mechanisms that impose on human health. Second, because modern racialization has served to solidify and maintain the hierarchies of colonial relations, settler colonialism adds explanatory power to racism’s health impacts and potential amelioration by historicizing this process for differentially racialized groups. Finally, advances in structural racism methodologies and the work of a few visionary scholars have already begun to elucidate the possibilities for a body of literature linking settler colonialism and health, illuminating future research opportunities and pathways toward the decolonization required for health equity.

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Section: Argument III Future Directions and Forerunnersmentioning

confidence: 94%

Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Wispelwey

Tanous

Asi

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…22 , 23 Although Palestinians make up 20% of Israel’s citizens, the 2018 Basic Law codifies Israel as the “nation state of the Jewish people.” 24 PCI often live in segregated Palestinian towns in Israel with the worst health and socioeconomic indicators, and their children attend under-resourced, segregated schools. 25 …”

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Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity

Asi,

Sharif,

Wispelwey

et al. 2024

Health Equity

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Between October 2023 and April 2024, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and countless others injured, displaced, and traumatized, in the fifth major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip since 2006. Recent events, along with the trajectory of events over the past 75 years, demonstrate that using a public health framework could help recognize racism as a structural and social determinant of Palestinian health. Using the principles of health equity, we show how Palestinian health inequities are rooted in settler colonialism and racism, amounting to violence and oppression against Palestinian Arabs as a racialized group, regardless of religion or citizenship. Structural racism should be recognized as a driver of Palestinian health inequities.

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Echoes of violence: experiences of Palestinian Arab students in Israeli academia during the violent events of May 2021

Mansour

2024

High Educ

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This paper investigates the challenges faced by Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel (PAI) who are students in Israeli higher education institutions amidst periods of national turbulence and violence, particularly focusing on the violent events of May 2021. Using interviews with students, academics, and members of civil society organisations, the paper puts forth a constructivist grounded theory model that charts the impact of the violent events of May 2021 on PAI students. It reveals that students’ experiences of violence, in various forms, give rise to a host of emotional, social, and political processes that heighten their awareness of the structural violence of the broader Israeli-Palestinian struggle. In response, PAI students withdraw both physically and mentally from their campuses and concurrently mobilise within their communities to address unmet needs neglected by official authorities. The perceptions of PAI students regarding their institutions’ responses to political issues are marked by intense cynicism—a sentiment that is mitigated by individual supportive initiatives by faculty members. Based on the findings, the paper argues that periods of political escalation are not to be viewed as fleeting events that heighten emotions but rather as critical junctures where identities and perceptions are formed, leaving an impact that lasts long after the immediate turbulence subsides.

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Structural racism and the health of Palestinian citizens of Israel

Cited by 9 publications

References 123 publications

Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity

Echoes of violence: experiences of Palestinian Arab students in Israeli academia during the violent events of May 2021

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