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Speaking Against Silence: Examining Social Work’s Response to Genocide
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Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed Israel’s unrelenting mass assault against the people of Gaza, killing more than 37,000 Palestinians. The response to this genocide in most sectors of professional society has largely been one of denial and suppression of solidarity with Palestine, unveiling extremes of the longstanding Palestine exception in progressive politics. This article contextualizes the social work profession’s response to Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinian people after October 7, 2023, including responses from schools of social work, social work agencies and organizations, and academic journals. This examination finds that social work institutions continue to engage in three primary silencing tactics: passive silence, active repression, and the drawing of false equivalences. Despite the profession’s pervasive silencing, many of us in social work continue to engage in efforts toward a free Palestine, aligned with the profession’s stated values. This article highlights and juxtaposes the grassroots efforts of social workers and social work students for a free Palestine with the repression from our professional institutions. We demonstrate a range of existing and emerging possibilities for sustained solidarity among social workers seeking to end rather than manage state violence, with Palestine as no exception.
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“In effect, Bisan guides us toward understanding current occupational conditions as reflective of documented scholasticide continuity in Gaza, where the denial of education for multiple Palestinian generations exists yet concurrently predates this contemporary moment.”
From Entwined Complicities: Genocidal Geographies of the Youth Carceral State and Arrivals to Educational Abolitionism (2025) · cites this paper as Suslovic et al., 2024
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- Authors
- Suslovic, B., Rasmussen, C., Kim, M., Sarantakos, S., Dettlaff, A., Roe, C., & Guevara, V.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- California State University, Long Beach (US)
- University of Denver (US)
- University of Houston (US)
- Venue
- Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work
- Publisher
- Libraries, University of Houston
- Published
- 2024-07-20
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2832-1154 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4399728463
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 1
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- 7.20
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- doi.org
- Locations
- Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Social Work Education and Practice
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
- Keywords
- social work profession, Gaza war, Israel, genocide, Palestinian solidarity, false equivalence, repression, social work schools, social work agencies, professional ethics, state violence, abolitionism
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