Organized Violence and Organized Abandonment Beyond the Human: the Case of Brucellosis among Palestinians in Israel.

ABSTRACT: This article explores how brucellosis became a racialized disease in Israel, where almost all patients are Palestinians. Informed by legal and historical research, the article demonstrates how colonial and settler-colonial policies have targeted Palestinians and their goats and contributed to the distribution of brucellosis along ethno-national lines. Goats, once ubiquitous to the landscape, became enemies of the Israeli state and were blamed for the "destruction" of nature. Under Israeli rule, legal policies not only seized and confiscated Palestinian land but also targeted goat grazing and led to a steep reduction in the number of goats. The resulting depeasantization and concentration of Palestinians in dense poor townships shaped goat grazing as a backyard practice with lack of trust i

SUBMITTER: Tanous O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239222 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature