The Struggle for Palestinian Liberation is Antiracism Work

As antiracist health scholars, practitioners, and advocates, our fundamental mission is to dismantle structural racism and actively challenge social injustices that undermine population health. We follow in the praxis of our predecessors who identify that the remedy to inequities in <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttt9qf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">health is political</a>. Our disciplines have overtly stood in solidarity with various forms of oppression. We have formally declared — and made careers around — <a href="https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2021/01/13/structural-racism-is-a-public-health-crisis" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">racism as a public health crisis</a>. Yet, we have collectively hesitated to do the same for Palestinians. This is misguided. Structural <a href="https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Said_Edward_Orientalism_1979.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">racism</a> is not separate from imperialism and national projects of <a href="https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">settler-colonialism</a>. The harm created by these oppressive forces is driven by white supremacy and unfettered capitalism and creates a reality in which the United States, the Global North, and their allies believe they are entitled to the <a href="http://wphna.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1971-Eduardo-Galeano-Open-Veins-of-Latin-America.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">land, people, and resources</a> <a href="https://ia902306.us.archive.org/33/items/how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-by-walter-rodney-2018/How%20Europe%20Underdeveloped%20Africa%20by%20Walter%20Rodney%20%282018%29.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">all over the world</a>. All three of these systems are inherently connected to each other; they create and sustain racialized hierarchies and produce the inequities antiracism work seeks to eliminate. <a href="https://medium.com/@antiracistsatwork/the-struggle-for-palestinian-liberation-is-antiracism-work-35f195531d6d">Click Here</a>