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Events

Greek Orthodox Backlash against Provision on Jerusalem's Holy Sites in Capitulation of 1604

Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law

Outbreak of World War II

1 September 1939

Establishment of Lebanese Consulate General in Palestine

30 December 1944 - 23 May 1945

Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

The British Mandate Issues the Defence (Emergency) Regulations

27 September 1945

Palestinians Declare Strike to Protest Bevin's Policy Statement of November 1945

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Publishes its Report after a Visit to Palestine

6 March 1946 - 20 April 1946

Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party

Arab League Meets in Bludan and Reacts to the Recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

8 June 1946 - 12 June 1946

Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Truman's Statement after Postponement of Round Table Conference on Palestine

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Revocations) Order in Council, 1948

Israel's Law and Administration Ordinance

Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas

21 October 1948

Israeli Military Order Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions (West Bank) No. 101

Iron Fist Policy in the Occupied Territories

29 July 1985 - 4 August 1985

With the Nonrelease of Prisoners, the Palestinian Leadership Applies for Access to 19 International Conventions

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The Knesset Adopts the "Anti-Terror" (Counter-Terrorism) Law

Israel Deducts Funds from the PA’s Tax Revenue

17 February 2019 - 2 May 2019

Biographies

1875 - 9 February 1949

1880 - 16 June 1946

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

1885 - 19 December 1953

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Anwar Nusseibeh

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

1925 - 10 April 1973

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1939 - 19 August 2014

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

Pact of the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Truman’s Statement on US Efforts for Palestine

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

III. Late Mandate

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Places

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

'Arab al-Nufay'at

Balad al-Shaykh

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Ijlil al-Shamaliyya

Khiyam al-Walid

Sarafand al-Kharab

Wadi al-Hawarith