WMNS 1103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Structural Violence
3 Jun 2018
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Four Generations in Resistance by Dana Erekat
The Color of Violence Chapter 9
• Ariel Sharon, 1967-1986, Israel prime minister and defense minister: Spearheads a
colonial philosophy in 1981 called “Fighting Terrorism” which opened the door for
confiscating all of historic Palestine and justified killing or displacing all of the people
currently occupying it. Sharon was also made minister of agriculture and settlements
where he proposed the “Sharon Plan.”
• The Sharon Plan called for the annexation of more Palestinian land and the building of
more settlements. The Israeli government soon adopted this plan and began to see it
through.
• In 1981, cooperation between the US and Israeli government begins and over the next 20
years, the war against Palestine is largely funded and supported by the US government.
• The number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank went from 5,023 in 1977 to over 400,000
today,
• Gaza refugee camps: extreme hunger and poverty, rubble and toxic waste everywhere.
• Education is a vital weapon for resistance- this is why Israelis close and or closely
monitor schools. Interference with education is a colonizer’s tactic of preventing the
growth of society.
• Israelis stripped the Palestinian land for their barricades to instill check points every few
miles.
• These checkpoints are humiliation barricades as the Israeli soldiers often subject the
Palestinians to crude demeaning, often sexual, punishments.
• Many Palestinian women face abuse at home due to the men in their life asserting
suffocated masculinity. This is the link of state violence and domestic violence. As
Palestinian men are subjected to structural violence of policing, racism, and
discrimination, and as their socioeconomic status worsens and their identity is in danger,
they often take this rage out on their wives/mothers/daughters. Culturally, most
Palestinian men agree that women should tolerate violence in order to keep the family
together.
• “New generations of Palestinian women are born resisting with their bodies, with their
pens and with their lives. Motherhood is an act of defiance in the midst of colonization.”
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Document Summary
Sharon was also made minister of agriculture and settlements where he proposed the sharon plan. : the sharon plan called for the annexation of more palestinian land and the building of more settlements. The israeli government soon adopted this plan and began to see it through. Interference with education is a colonizer"s tactic of preventing the growth of society. Israelis stripped the palestinian land for their barricades to instill check points every few miles: these checkpoints are humiliation barricades as the israeli soldiers often subject the. Palestinians to crude demeaning, often sexual, punishments: many palestinian women face abuse at home due to the men in their life asserting suffocated masculinity. This is the link of state violence and domestic violence. Palestinian men are subjected to structural violence of policing, racism, and discrimination, and as their socioeconomic status worsens and their identity is in danger, they often take this rage out on their wives/mothers/daughters.
