WMNS 1103 Chapter 7: A Call for Consistency: Palestinian Resistance and Radical US Women of Color
3 Jun 2018
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A Call for Consistency: Palestinian Resistance and Radical US Women of Color by Nadine
Naber
The Color of Violence Chapter 7
• The discourse around “female suicide bombers,” especially after 9/11, is part of an
ideological framework that presents Arab women as either passive victims or barbaric
terrorists. Will dominant women of color change the discourse from whether we agree
with Palestinian methods of resistance to recognizing and understanding what lead these
people to this point? When women are faced with no other options, they will continue to
resist.
• Between the first intifada and March 2005, more than 4,000 Palestinians were killed and
30,000 were injured. 70% of the population has been forced into exile. Many Palestinians
have been locked up in Israeli controlled ghettos. Israelis use fighter jets, helicopters and
tanks to attack refugee camps. They use blow horns and fog horns to trigger fear and
panic in the Palestinian communities.
• Israel was created by a process of war- war on Palestinian land and people. Massacres
facilitated the process of “nation building” and using fear to displace Palestinians. They
are systematized military tactics. Every Israeli town was built on the remains of a
Palestinian village.
• Israeli massacres are often accompanied by sexual assault- particularly of pregnant
women because this symbolizes uprooting the child from the mother and the Palestinian
land.
• There is a real and massive disparity in the balance of power between Israel and
Palestine. According to the Israel vision, the Palestinian people are destined to become
incorporated as a minority, despite the fact that Israeli cultural consciousness is a
recreation of everything indigenous to Palestine.
• Cultural appropriation, redefined in European cultural forms as “Israeli”, utilizes the
dance, food, clothing and art that was denied to Palestinians in their homeland.
• Palestine is viewed as an anomaly of history but we should link the Palestinian struggle
to indigenous struggles internationally.
• Until we stop buying into corporate media propaganda that devalues the lives of the
Palestinian people, we will fail to recognize the intersections between colonialism,
racism, classism and sexism.
• Arab women activists have worked to expose the Palestinian struggle as an anti colonial
legitimate cause.
• The question shouldn’t be, are these “suicide bombers” action’s appropriate, but what
historical context and intersections led to this point?
Document Summary
A call for consistency: palestinian resistance and radical us women of color by nadine. The color of violence chapter 7: the discourse around female suicide bombers, especially after 9/11, is part of an ideological framework that presents arab women as either passive victims or barbaric terrorists. When women are faced with no other options, they will continue to resist: between the first intifada and march 2005, more than 4,000 palestinians were killed and. 70% of the population has been forced into exile. Many palestinians have been locked up in israeli controlled ghettos. Israelis use fighter jets, helicopters and tanks to attack refugee camps. They use blow horns and fog horns to trigger fear and panic in the palestinian communities. Israel was created by a process of war- war on palestinian land and people. Massacres facilitated the process of nation building and using fear to displace palestinians. Every israeli town was built on the remains of a.
