TY - JOUR PY - 2024// TI - Symbolic boundary work: Jewish and Arab femicide in Israeli Hebrew newspapers JO - British journal of sociology A1 - Shor, Eran A1 - Filkobski, Ina SP - 290 EP - 302 VL - 75 IS - 3 N2 - 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.
LA - en SN - 0007-1315 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13080 ID - ref1 ER -