Palestinians in Israel

Ghanem, As’ad; Mustafa, Mohanad

doi:10.1017/9781108641647

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“…Despite its prosperity, commitment and enactment of laws and policies certain segments of the population still do not benefit. This is because the Palestinian Arabs of Israel are not simply ethnic or racial minorities but are living in a contested political terrain making them, what Rabinowitz (2001) calls a "trapped minority"a national minority disconnected from the majority of its peopledue to the segregation and strict control of the Israeli government (Ghanem and Mustafa, 2018).…”

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The experiences of Palestinian Arabs with disabilities in Israel

Amin

Badran

Gur

et al. 2023

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PurposeIsrael ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and has subsequently worked towards putting disability-empowering policies and facilities in place. This study explores the experiences of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel with disabilities in everyday life including education, employment and accessing disability facilities and services.Design/methodology/approachThis study explores the challenges and experiences of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a disparate group of Arab men and women with various forms of disabilities.FindingsThis research indicates that Arabs with disabilities are either unable to access them or do so with great difficulty relative to their Jewish counterparts. The findings suggest that this is due to one of two reasons: first is institutional discrimination by Jewish and Arab staff, and second is structural discrimination as facilities and services are specifically designed for the Jewish majority and their areas of residence as opposed to Arab residential areas.Originality/valueGuided by intersectional theory, this article explores how the multiple identities of Arabs with disabilities living in Israel are co-constituted and ordered by different social and political structures which inform their daily lived experiences. This research illustrates that in Jewish politics and institutions, Arabs with disabilities in Israel are “otherised” by being flatly identified as Palestinians; yet, within their Arab communities, they are “otherised” by being reduced solely to their disability. This article examines how this variation in ordering and reduction can lead to specific experiences and forms of discrimination that requires multi-dimensional approaches and ways forward.

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The experiences of Palestinian Arabs with disabilities in Israel

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Badran

Gur

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“…Arabs are considered an indigenous national minority, having lived in the Holy Land before the major Jewish immigration waves since the 19th century. They are considered a national-ethno (Palestinian Arab) minority constituting approximately 21 percent of the population of Israel (Ghanem and Mustafa, 2018). Their religion (83% Muslims, 8.5% Christians and 8.2% Druze), language: Arabic, and partially traditional collectivist culture differ from those of the majority Jewish population which speaks Hebrew and has a mostly modern individualist culture.…”

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Minority group local government mayors and their relations with welfare bureau social workers

Mahajne

2023

International Social Work

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Mayors play a major role in determining their locality’s welfare policies and significantly influence the welfare bureaus’ work. This study employed in-depth semi-structured interviews with 19 mayors of local Arab governments in Israel to examine this issue. It found that the mayors fiercely criticize the welfare bureaus in four areas of concern, claiming that they ignore particular needs, neglect core target populations, lack culture-sensitive responses and their functioning is defective. The mayors’ criticism of welfare bureau inadequacies sheds light on Welfare Ministry policies that allocate lower discriminatory budgets to Arab welfare bureaus and are insensitive to Arab society’s cultural-religious needs.

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“…Recent Scholarship and the Reviewed books Ghanem and Mustafa (2018) surveyed theories that explained the status of the Palestinians in Israel. Al-Atawneh and Ali (2018) surveyed the existing scholarship on political Islam in Israel.…”

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“…For this purpose, this essay will review the recent scholarship, while focusing on politics and religion among the Palestinians in Israel. Ghanem and Mustafa (2018) and the Politics of Faith…”

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Palestinians in Israel: New Scholarship on Politics and Religion

Zeedan

2022

Bustan: The Middle East Book Review

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This article situates these two new books on the Palestinians in Israel in the broader evolution of the existing scholarship. Ghanem and Mustafa provide a comprehensive new model based on the concept of “politics of faith” in order to explain how the Palestinians have tried to advance their collective interests as a minority in Israel. Al-Atawneh and Ali trace the evolution of Islamic identity and practice among the Palestinian minority in Israel. They explain how Islam has affected social and political change within Palestinian society in Israel. While both books expand our knowledge of the Palestinians in Israel, using different approaches, they share an emphasis on synthesizing both internal and external factors in their analysis of the developments affecting the Palestinians.

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Palestinians in Israel

Cited by 28 publications

References 69 publications

The experiences of Palestinian Arabs with disabilities in Israel

The experiences of Palestinian Arabs with disabilities in Israel

Minority group local government mayors and their relations with welfare bureau social workers

Palestinians in Israel: New Scholarship on Politics and Religion

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