What is the relationship between Mizraḥi feminism and Israeli ultra-nationalism? What is the relevance of gender justice activism to the 2014 Gaza War and Israel’s foreign policy? Mizraḥi protests dissipate and disappear when the Israel-Palestine conflict dominates the headlines. This lecture connects intra-Jewish racial and gendered dynamics to the 2014 Gaza War. It tracks sequences that began with social protest and ended with elections that bolstered Israel’s political Right. In between came bloodletting between the IDF, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel’s neighboring Arab states. The 2014 Gaza War was a watershed, but not only in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Under the smokescreen of war, Israel accelerated neoliberal economic reform. The first victims of this restructuring were Mizraḥi single mothers. Palestinians, however, would pay the highest price for Israel’s Mizraḥi-Ashkenazi rift.

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Feminist anthropologist Smadar Lavie is the Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies for the 2018-19 year and is being hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology for the duration of her time at Dalhousie.

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Lindsay DuBois, Chair and Associate Professor
Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
Lindsay.DuBois@Dal.Ca