This course reflects the work of current and former FSPH graduate students and faculty who organized to create a class where UCLA students with a background and/or interest in antiracism and health justice in Palestine can learn and process together in a productive and respectful manner. Similar to previous courses focused on antiracism and health justice at the Fielding School of Public Health, this course centers on the history, stories, and voices of those individuals currently experiencing the most harm and violence in the region and finding solutions against it: Palestinians in Gaza. 

The educators who designed this course believe in studying and practicing racial justice relationally. As such, this course seeks to understand what health justice in Palestine means and how it relates to all people groups and socioeconomic statuses, and even how it shapes our own understanding of health justice in the U.S.  The way we intend to relationally form our understanding of this study topic is by including in the syllabus not only Palestinian writers and organizers, but also Jewish-Israeli, Black and African American, Latinx/e, and other Southwest Asian, North African (SWANA) researchers and authors, both abroad and in the U.S.