Summary
The incapacitated Palestinian killed in Hebron in March 2015 (date as printed) when Israel Defense Forces soldier Elor Azaria shot him in the head as he lay on the ground, in a killing caught on video; Matthew Abraham pairs his precarious life with Walter Scott’s (Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, PDF p.7 / printed p.83).
Details
- Abraham presents Azaria’s claim that al-Sharif was reaching for a knife, and the knife’s absence from the video at the time of the shooting and presence afterward, as suggesting the knife was planted to solidify Azaria’s defense story (PDF p.7 / printed p.83).
- Abraham asks how students should be taught about the precarious lives al-Sharif and Scott lived as subjects targeted for extrajudicial killing by agents of the state because of their race/ethnicity (PDF p.7 / printed p.83).
Related pages
Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, Elor Azaria, Hebron, Walter Scott