Jacob Goldstein
Professor Mehmet Dosemeci
Race, Land, Death in Palestine
28 April 2017
Globalization and Resistance Related to Israel’s Occupation Throughout history, we have seen groups of people, whether they be affiliated based on religion, ethnicity, or geographical location, attempt to expand the land which they occupy. These groups hope to improve upon their quality of life through technological innovation, a productive government, better education, and much more. This successful modernization leads to an expanding middle class and less of a power discrepancy between the top and the bottom. Globalization has expanded what human beings are capable of, especially in the 20th and 21st centuries. We now have the technology and transportation
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Through government policy, such as the permit regime, which requires the Palestinians have a permit for performing the most basic of tasks, the Israelis have made it clear that the Palestinians are inferior. The Israelis also control how the Palestinians are educated and where they can and can not travel. There have been many attempts of Palestinian resistance. A major turning point was the six-day war in 1967. Palestinian nationalism grew as Israeli gained military control of the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza Strip from Egypt. Finally tensions boiled over in 1987, the year of the first intifada. This was the first major Palestinian uprising in response to escalating attacks and the endless occupation. After more years of unsuccessful negotiations, a more violent second intifada erupted in September of 2000. The violence, lasting about five years, led to hundreds of fatalities. Here we see the consequences of globalization when two vastly different societies clash as they both attempt to control a precious piece of land. Having such contrasting lifestyles, the Israelis and Palestinians have struggled immensely to figure out some sort of solution. This has led to tighter, more violent control from the Israelis over the Palestinians and more retaliation from the Palestinians as a …show more content…
"Staging Resistance in Bil'in: The Performance of Violence in a Palestinian Village." Tdr: The Drama Review 55, no. 4 (2011): 128-43.
The article talks about a protest campaign done by Freedom Theatre in the Bil'in village, near Ramallah, West Bank on June 17, 2011. Freedom Theatre is a Palestinian performing arts group based in the Jenin Refugee Camp. To address human rights abuses of Palestinians by Israelis, the group played music with various instruments and performed traditional Palestinian dances. One thing in particular this group protested was the construction of the “Apartheid Wall.” This article discusses a nonviolent approach towards ultimately ending Israeli control over the Palestinians.
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Barghouti, Omar. Bds : Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions : The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Chicago, Ill.: Haymarket Books, 2011.
As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, the author of this book offers his opinion on how the Palestinians can win back their civil rights.. The author here offers his support for a global campaign attempting to increase economic and political pressure on Israel to comply with the stated goals of the movement. These goals include an end to Israel's occupation and colonization of Palestinian land and the Golan Heights, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and acknowledgement of the right of return of Palestinian refugees. It discusses what the Palestinians have