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Abstract
The paper, based on interviews, follows something of the process by which a group of Palestinian social workers came to ‘stand tall’ as Palestinian citizens of Israel. The process began with their acute discomfort both with blending into Jewish Israeli society and with being singled out for exclusion or harsh treatment as Palestinians. These feelings set in motion a process of self empowerment that was marked first by resistance and protest and then by the simultaneous embracing of and reflection on their identity as Palestinian citizens of Israel. Parallels are drawn between the historical development of the identity of the Palestinian collective in Israel that has been charted in the literature and the identity development of individual Palestinians.
Notes
1. All the terms that are today used to identify Palestinian citizens of Israel are controversial. The appellation ‘Arab’, is the traditional term employed by both scholars and the Arab population. It highlights the common ethnicity of Arabs of all nations. For the most part, this paper uses the current term ‘Palestinian citizens of Israel’ or, occasionally, ‘Palestinians’. With this, the appellation ‘Arab’ also appears quite frequently. Many of the cited scholars and most of the interviewees use this appellation, and I felt that it was appropriate to replicate the term that they chose not only when quoting them but also when referring to them. For the earliest and thus far most elaborate discussion of the labeling issues, see Rabinowitz (Citation1993).