CRISIS IN HUMAN RIGHTS KNOWLEDGE: CASE OF PALESTINE

Year 2021, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 49 - 65, 30.06.2021

Akif Tögel

https://doi.org/10.47136/asbuhfd.725430

Abstract

Crisis in knowledge, deeply affects the definition or the concept of terms related to that knowledge. Human rights, a popular term is used to express the rights of the human being who lives not in one part of the world but all around the globe. However, every day we are faced with lots of news of human rights abuses from all over the world. This invasion shows that human rights knowledge, which ripened in an extended period, is in a big crisis. In this paper, it is argued that many examples of the crises in human rights knowledge can be seen in Palestine's case. In this context, the first part will discuss the historical development of human rights knowledge, and the second part will focus on the cases related to basic human rights violations from Palestine. This study concludes that the human rights concept should be redefined with the implications from given cases. Also, human rights violations should be terminated, starting from Palestine and spreading to all around the world to stop the crises in human rights knowledge.

Keywords

Human Rights Knowledge, Human Rights Violations, Case of Palestine, Unjust Conditions in Palestine, Islamicjerusalem Studies

İNSAN HAKLARI BİLİMİNDEKİ KRİZ: FİLİSTİN ÖRNEĞİ

Abstract

Bilgi birikiminde yaşanan kriz, bu bilgiyle ilgili terimlerin tanımını ve kavramın kendisini derinden etkiler. Popüler bir terim olarak insan hakları, sadece dünyanın bir bölümünde değil, tüm dünyada yaşayan insanların haklarını ifade etmek için kullanılmaktadır. Ancak, her gün dünyanın her yerinden birçok insan hakları ihlali haberiyle karşı karşıya kalındığı düşünüldüğünde, bu ihlaller uzun bir süre içinde olgunlaşan insan hakları biliminin büyük bir krizde olduğunu göstermektedir. Bu çalışmada, insan hakları bilimindeki krizin birçok örneğinin Filistin örneği üzerinden görülebileceği tartışılmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, ilk bölüm insan hakları bilgisinin tarihsel gelişimini tartışmakta, ikinci bölüm Filistin’den gelen yaygın insan hakları ihlalleriyle ilgili örneklere odaklanmaktadır. Bu çalışma sonucunda, insan hakları kavramının Filistin örneği üzerinden çıkan sonuçlarla yeniden tanımlanması, ayrıca insan hakları ihlallerinin Filistin'den başlayarak ve insan hakları bilimindeki krizleri durdurmak üzere tüm Dünyada önlenmesi gerektiği ileri sürülmektedir.

Keywords

İnsan Hakları Bilimi, İnsan Hakları İhlalleri, Filistin Örneği, Filistindeki Haksız Koşullar, Kudüs Çalışmaları

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