Symbolic boundary work

Jewish and Arab femicide in Israeli Hebrew newspapers

Bibliographic Data

ID5610230
AuthorsEran Shor (0009-0003-4861-0828), Ina Filkobski (Department of Sociology McGill University Montréal Québec Canada)
Year2024
Volume75
Issue3
Pages290-302
Publication date2024-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-4446.13080
PMID38288988
OpenAlexW4391349695
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited41

We analyze 391 news reports in Israeli newspapers between 2013 and 2015, covering murders of women and their family members by other family members and intimate partners. We compare articles where the perpetrators and victims are Jewish to those where the perpetrators and victims are Palestinian citizens of Israel (henceforth PCI). We found that articles tend to provide much more details about Jewish culprits than about PCI ones. As for ascribed motives, most murder cases by Jews were framed as an outcome of individual personality or the pathology of the culprit. Conversely, when Palestinian citizens were the killers, culture and tradition were invoked as the main motives. We suggest that the routine work of narration that the Israeli media preform when covering femicide is a case of political use of cultural stereotypes to gain moral ground in the intractable conflict between Jews and Palestinians

Art · Criminology · Domestic violence · Femicide · Hebrew · Judaism · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Newspaper · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Classics · Gender Studies · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Medicine · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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