The Daily Wire is reporting that Harvard University will host a summer program where students will be briefed on “settler colonialism.”
The program reportedly will be held at a Palestinian university that called for “glory to martyrs” after the October 7 terrorist massacre.
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The embattled Ivy League institution’s “Palestine Social Medicine Course” will send Harvard students to Birzeit University in the West Bank, according to the program’s website. It explains that the “three-week intensive summer course is designed to introduce students to the social, structural, political, and historical aspects that determine Palestinian health beyond the biological basis of disease.”
The program’s website gives details on the curriculum content:
Curriculum topics will build learner’s core understandings of social medicine, social determinants of health, health activism, and the historical, social, and political context of Palestine. Core topics include:
- Self-awareness and structural humility
- What is social medicine and what is structural competency?
- Social medicine/structural competency approaches to clinical encounters
- A social sciences approach to disease in Palestine
- The human rights framework and the right to health in Palestine
- Health and health culture in Palestine
- Settler colonialism and its manifestations in Palestine
- Health and racism
- Case studies in Palestinian health
- Health systems financing
- Barriers to care in the oPt/Israel/diaspora and means of alleviating access
For more details on this program and Birzeit University, check out the Daily Wire.
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