Anthropology
ANTH 132 Food, Culture, and Justice in Israel/Palestine
Examines the tensions within Israeli society and its relationships with other countries through food and eating habits, focusing on the relations with the Palestinian people sharing the same land. Given that food is a medium through which one can analyze social and cultural relations (and fights…), this course focuses on how food and eating patterns reflect, shape, and influence modern Israel. By doing so, the course provides a unique angle to major social and cultural issues in Israel, such as the relationship between Jews and Palestinians in Israel, cultural and social tensions between different ethnic groups, the effect of global food trends on Israeli society. (Formerly Food Fights: Food, Culture, and Society in Israel.)