What is Anti-Palestinian Racism?

Anti-Palestinian Racism refers to conduct, policies, or institutional practices that, by intent or effect, produce unequal, exclusionary, or harmful outcomes for Palestinians, Palestinian Australians, or those perceived as Palestinian.

It also impacts those that support and/or advocate for human rights, justice and liberation/freedom for the Palestinian people (‘pro-Palestine allies’).

Anti-Palestinian Racism refers to conduct, policies, or institutional practices that, by intent or effect, produce unequal, exclusionary, or harmful outcomes for Palestinians, Palestinian Australians, or those perceived as Palestinian.

It also impacts those that support and/or advocate for human rights, justice and liberation/freedom for the Palestinian people (‘pro-Palestine allies’).

Anti-Palestinian Racism silences, excludes, erases, stereotypes, defames or dehumanises Palestinians and/or their narratives.

It is demonstrated in three forms: Individual, Institutional and Structural. Together, these three levels compose systemic APR.

Anti-Palestinian Racism silences, excludes, erases, stereotypes, defames or dehumanises Palestinians and/or their narratives.

It is demonstrated in three forms: Individual, Institutional and Structural. Together, these three levels compose systemic APR.

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Anti-Palestinian Racism is manifested through:

Anti-Palestinian Racism is manifested through:

Exclusion

Excluding Palestinians and advocates of Palestinian human rights through various measures, including barring the appointment/firing of Palestinians and allies; denying funding or sponsorship of projects relaying Palestinian narratives, omitting references to Palestinian identity or cultural contributions.

Denial, Distortion, and Silencing

Defamation of Palestinians and allies via the dehumanising, racist, stereotypes that aim to ‘other’ Palestinians in Western societies. Also occurs by discrediting and/or defaming Palestinians and allies by utilising anti-Palestinian stereotypes (i.e. they are a terrorist sympathiser or antisemitic for holding pro-Palestine views).

Justifying Violence Against Palestinians

Includes equating the oppressed with the oppressors; or blaming the oppressed for the actions of the oppressor; or rationalising the use of violence against Palestinians. This justification encompasses Palestinians within historic Palestine and the diaspora.

Nakba Denial

Nakba denial includes the erasure of Palestinian connections to the land across emotional, ancestral, cultural, economic, and historical lenses. It includes the denial of the mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948.

Failing to Acknowledge Indigeneity

Failing to acknowledge Palestinians as an indigenous people manifests in several ways, including denying the existence of Palestine and Palestinians as a people, denying the settler-colonisation of Palestine, and appropriation of Palestinian heritage and culture.

source: www.antipalestinianracism.org

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