Anti-Palestinianism

Anti-Palestinianism or anti-Palestinian racism[1] refers to prejudice, collective hatred, and discrimination directed at the Palestinian people for any variety of reasons. Since the mid-20th century, the phenomenon has largely overlapped with anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia due to the fact that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians today are Arabs and Muslims.[1][2] Historically, anti-Palestinianism was more closely identified with European antisemitism, as far-right Europeans detested the Jewish people as undesirable foreigners from Palestine.[3][4] Modern anti-Palestinianism—that is, xenophobia or racism towards the Arabs of Palestine—is most common in Israel,[a][5][6][7] the United States,[2] Lebanon,[8] and Germany,[9][10][11] among other countries.

Pakistani author and professor Sunaina Maira,[12] citing American professor of Islamic studies Shahzad Bashir in the context of labelling, states: "...an important aspect of anti-Palestinianism, that is, the moral panic whipped up about the 'radicalization' of Muslim and Arab American youth is often accompanied by the charge that they are automatically anti-Semites if they are critical of the Israeli state's policies."[13] According to Moustafa Bayoumi, anti-Palestinianism preceded the modern wave of Islamophobia and influenced the rise of the latter.[14]

  1. ^ a b Abu-Laban & Bakan 2021, pp. 143–149.
  2. ^ a b Beinart 2021.
  3. ^ Kant, Immanuel (1974): Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Translated by Mary J. Gregor. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, cited in Chad Alan Goldberg, Politicide Revisited. University of Wisconsin-Madison
  4. ^ Gelbin, Cathy S.; Gilman, Sander L. (2017). Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews. University of Michigan Press: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-4721-3041-2.
  5. ^ Riemer, Nick. Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. p. 76.
  6. ^ Gendzier, Irene L. (1 January 1999). "Minority Alliances". Journal of Palestine Studies. 28 (2): 97–99. doi:10.2307/2537939. ISSN 0377-919X.
  7. ^ Biddle, Alice Speri, Sam (27 March 2023). "Anti-Palestinian Hate on Social Media Is Growing, Says a Facebook Partner". The Intercept. Retrieved 6 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Moor 2010.
  9. ^ Fekete, Liz (2024). "Anti-Palestinian racism and the criminalisation of international solidarity in Europe". Race & Class. 66 (1): 99–120. doi:10.1177/03063968241253708. ISSN 0306-3968.
  10. ^ Jegić, Denijal. "Why is Germany so viciously anti-Palestinian?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  11. ^ "Geopolitics as anti-Palestinianism". Mondoweiss. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  12. ^ "Canary Mission". canarymission.org. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  13. ^ Maira 2016, p. 150.
  14. ^ Moustafa Bayoumi, Decades of spying and repression: the anti-Palestinian origins of American Islamophobia The Guardian 23 May 2024


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