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Feminist Except for Palestine: Where Are Feminist Social Workers on Palestine?
Affilia-Feminist Inquiry in Social Work
  • Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Stephanie Wahab, Portland State University
  • Ferdoos Abed-Rabo Al-Issa, Bethlehem University
Document Type
Citation
Publication Date
2-24-2022
Disciplines
Abstract

Despite international social work commitments to social justice, human dignity, and individual worth, feminist social work remains silent on Palestine. Israeli settler colonial violence pushes us to revisit our responsibilities to stand against colonized militarism. We insist that collective liberation is a feminist ethical constant, a political bosom for decolonization, a compass for critical feminist social work. In this article, we extend previously made claims that Palestine is a feminist issue by highlighting four moral imperatives: 1) persistent sumud, (2) gendered impacts of Zionism's settler colonial violence, 3) commitments to justice and liberation, and 4) feminist praxis of narrating violence.

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DOI
10.1177/08861099221079381
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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37361
Citation Information
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N., Wahab, S., & Al-Issa, F. A. R. (2022). Feminist Except for Palestine: Where Are Feminist Social Workers on Palestine?. Affilia, 08861099221079381.