The 2014 War on Gaza: engineering trauma and mass torture to break Palestinian resilience

Shehadeh, Said

doi:10.1002/aps.1457

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“…A growing corpus of research has developed versatile understandings of sumud as a key concept in intellectual debates about the strategies Palestinians develop under colonial conditions (e.g. Tawil-Souri 2009;Meari 2014;Rijke & van Teeffelen 2014;Ryan 2015;Shehadeh 2015;Fassetta, Imperiale, Aldegheri, & Al-Masri 2020). Mindful of how the notion of sumud may be applied in different Palestinian contexts, this article casts a spotlight on Palestinians who remained 'inside' and constitute some 21% of Israel's population.…”

Section: Sumud In Palestinian Colonized Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities

Awayed-Bishara

2023

Lang. Soc.

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This linguistic ethnographic study offers a nuanced pedagogical account of the Arabic term sumud, or ‘steadfastness’, through a sociolinguistic analysis of decolonial modes of expression among Palestinian youth in Israel. I reflect on events during the 2021 uprisings in East Jerusalem, when Palestinian youth within Israel took to the streets in solidarity with Palestinians in Jerusalem and Gaza. Considering the Israeli education system's denationalization of the Palestinian community within its borders, I examine how Palestinian political ideals cultivated outside the formal educational system open new possibilities for political organizing and expression. I reflect upon interviews with members of the Haifa Youth Movement and a Palestinian hip-hop artist and his lyrics. Engaging with Stroud's theorization of linguistic citizenship, I show how pedagogy of sumud as a linguistic citizenship practice opens new semiotic spaces for Palestinian youth in Israel to resist the erasure of their identity. (Linguistic citizenship, sumud pedagogy, Palestinian youth, colonized education)*

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Section: Sumud In Palestinian Colonized Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities

Awayed-Bishara

2023

Lang. Soc.

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“…Since the siege conditions in the GS were intensified in 2007, circumstances have continued to worsen substantially. This has been further exacerbated after three wars on the GS since 2008 [31,32,56]. These differences are important to take into account, especially given our focus on the relationship between deprivation and mental health.…”

Section: Plos Global Public Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

The mental health impact of multiple deprivations under protracted conflict: A multi-level study in the occupied Palestinian territory

Hammoudeh

Mitwalli

Kafri

et al. 2022

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Building on the literatures examining the impacts of deprivation and war and conflict on mental health, in this study, we investigate the impact of different forms of deprivation on mental health within a context of prolonged conflict in the occupied Palestinian territory(oPt). We expand the operationalization go deprivation while accounting for more acute exposures to conflict and political violence and spatial variations. We use multilevel modelling of data from the Socio-Economic & Food Security Survey 2014 conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, which included a sample size of 7827 households in the West Bank(WB) and Gaza Strip(GS). We conduct the analysis for the combined sample, as for the WB and GS separately. We use a General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ12) score as our main outcome measure of poor health. We used various measures of deprivation including subjective deprivation, material deprivation, food deprivation, and political deprivation. In addition to the different measures of deprivation, we included acute political, health, and economic shocks in our analysis along with background socio-demographic characteristics. The results indicate significant variance at the locality level. We find a significant association between poor mental health and subjective, economic, political, and food deprivation; health, economic, and political stressors; age, and being a woman. Post-secondary education and wealth have a significant inverse association with poor mental health. Subjective deprivation is the strongest predictor of GHQ12 score in the models whereby people who feel very deprived have GHQ12 scores that are almost 4-points higher than people who do not feel deprived. Economic conditions, particularly subjective measures, are significant predictors of mental health status. Our findings confirm that political and social factors are determinants of health. Feeling deprived is an important determinant of mental health. The community effect suggests that spatial characteristics are influencing mental health, and warrant further investigation.

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“…It requires an active response from mental health workers across the world who can add to this community‐based support and, through dynamic engagement, learn new, tested methods of resilience from a besieged population. The urgency for this is highlighted by Said Shehadeh in his study of the 2014 invasion of Gaza, where he shows that Israeli policy has moved from “collective punishment” to “mass torture” (Conclusion to report, Shehadeh, 2015). Can we “slough off” our own passivity in the face of this?…”

Section: Part 3: the Psychological Importance Of Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

From sumud to intifada: Supporting non‐violent action to enhance mental health

Harrold¹

2020

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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Background The siege of Gaza provides a challenge for mental health workers across the world in terms of how to respond to the forces that create the mental health problems caused by it. Inside Gaza, there are responses to the siege that have therapeutic purposes and outcomes. These need to be understood.They also set up the issue of active solidarity. Aims To provide a background to the mental health crisis in Gaza and to examine some of the psychosocial methods being used to help alleviate symptoms of PTSD. Materials and Methods This is a survey of methods used by Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza between 2011 and 2018. Results Statistics are contained not in this report but in the referenced report by Dr Mohamed Altawil. Discussion The article discusses the importance of action or activity in the therapeutic process and how actions directed at changing environmental circumstances can enhance personal wellbeing. Conclusion It is to be hoped that mental health workers outside Gaza can find some way of showing solidarity with those trying to be resilient under siege and actively support mental health workers inside Gaza.

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The 2014 War on Gaza: engineering trauma and mass torture to break Palestinian resilience

Cited by 19 publications

References 6 publications

Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities

Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship: Palestinian youth in Israel against imposed subjectivities

The mental health impact of multiple deprivations under protracted conflict: A multi-level study in the occupied Palestinian territory

From sumud to intifada: Supporting non‐violent action to enhance mental health

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