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.
Original language | American English |
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Pages (from-to) | 204-214 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 24 Feb 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
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Keywords
- Palestine
- Settler colonial violence
- Zionism
- feminist
- refusal