"Captain Filastine" and the Trappings of Success. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Elia, Nada
• Is Part Of: Journal of Palestine studies. Volume 51:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 58
• Page End: 61
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Filastine Srour -- respectability politics -- the master's tools -- NYPD -- U.S.-Israeli trainings -- top cop; Jewish-Arab relations -- Periodicals; Jewish-Arab relations; Middle East; Periodicals; 327.56940174927
• DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2021.2007002
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0377-919X

Abstract

Abstract: Many Arab Americans cheered Lieutenant Filastine Srour's promotion to the rank of captain in the New York City Police Department as if this constituted a collective victory for Palestinians. But one person rising up in a notoriously racist institution does not end their community's criminalization. Nor is individual advancement by a woman a feminist accomplishment, as feminism aspires to dismantle oppressive systems, not succeed in them.