Israeli soldiers shoot 23 Palestinian children in 2010, report says

BMJ ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 342 (jan06 1) ◽  
pp. d49-d49
Author(s):  
T. Traubmann
Keyword(s):  
Palestinian Children ◽  
Israeli Soldiers

Where Are the History Books for Palestinian Children?

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Sayigh
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
The Self ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Culturally Relevant Education ◽  
Palestinian Children ◽  
The Right ◽  
Authentic Curriculum ◽  
History Books ◽  
Relevant Education

Colonialism deprives colonised peoples of the self-determined histories needed for continued struggle. Scattered since 1948 across diverse educational systems, Palestinians have been unable to control their education or construct an authentic curriculum. This paper covers varied schooling in the Palestinian diaspora. I set this state of ‘splitting through education’ as contradictory to international declarations of the right of colonised peoples to culturally relevant education. Such education would include histories that explain their situation, and depict past resistances. I argue for the production of histories of Palestine for Palestinian children, especially those in refugee camps as well as in Israel and Jerusalem, where curricula are controlled by the settler-coloniser. Black and Native Americans have dealt with exclusion from history in ways that offer models for Palestinians.

Palestinian children living amidst political and military violence deploy active protection strategies against psychological trauma: How agency can mitigate traumatic stress via life satisfaction

2021 ◽  
pp. 136749352110177
Author(s):  
Guido Veronese ◽  
Federica Cavazzoni ◽  
Alaa Jaradah ◽  
Shaher Yaghi ◽  
Hania Obaid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Trauma Symptoms ◽  
Event Scale ◽  
Military Violence ◽  
Palestinian Children

This exploratory study assessed the association between agency and life satisfaction, as well as the potential for life satisfaction, in its turn, to alleviate trauma symptoms and reduce negative emotion in a group of children exposed to war and military violence in Palestine. Two hundred and fifty Palestinian children, who had been recruited at primary schools in urban and rural areas, and refugee camps, completed the Multilevel Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale, Children’s Hope Scale (CHS), Children’s Impact of Event Scale (CRIES) and Positive and Negative Affect Scales. We performed structural equation modelling to evaluate the effects of agency on negative emotions and trauma symptoms via life satisfaction. The participants appeared to play an agentic role in mobilizing their own life satisfaction, and the more satisfied they were with their lives, the less they suffered from trauma symptoms. In terms of clinical practice, we advocate more active and participatory approaches to fostering children’s agency, a complex construct in need of further investigation via mixed-method quanti-qualitative and ethnographic studies.

Mandated to fail? Humanitarian agencies and the protection of Palestinian children

Disasters ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Hart ◽  
Claudia Lo Forte
Keyword(s):  
Palestinian Children

Confessions and Tweets: Social Media and Everyday Experience in the Israel Defense Forces

2019 ◽  
pp. 0095327X1985930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nehemia Stern ◽  
Uzi Ben Shalom
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Military Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Israel Defense Forces ◽  
Israeli Soldiers

This article explores the social media postings of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers on two different and unofficial Facebook groups. While scholars of armed forces and society have noted the growing importance that militaries have placed on digital media, there is little data regarding the unofficial uses and meanings that regular soldiers themselves make of social networking sites. With an anthropological focus on everyday experiences, we argue that the social media activity of IDF personnel highlights the quotidian aspects of military life in ways that reverberate beyond the strictly ideological or political facets of their service. Here, soldiers can express their frustrations with military bureaucracy, while also presenting a lighthearted (and positive) commentary on a shared rite of passage. This research opens a window into the lives and dilemmas of the first generation of Israeli soldiers to employ new media as a taken for granted aspect of their service.

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