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Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

1907 - 27 July 2006

1910 - 26 February 1971

Anwar Nusseibeh

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1925 - 10 April 1973

1926 - 23 January 1984

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

1942 - 6 August 2019

Historical Texts

Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

Palin Commission Report

Churchill White Paper

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Shaw Commission Report

Report of the British - International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

1 December 1930

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Charter of the Arab Youth Congress

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Biltmore Conference Declaration

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

UNGA Resolution 997 (ES-I)

2 November 1956

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

The Venice Declaration

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

Cairo Declaration on the PLO and Terrorism as read by PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat

7 November 1985

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

Declaration of the Heads of State or Government of the European Union On the Middle East Peace Process: The Berlin Declaration

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

The Durban Declaration

8 September 2001

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

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

25 September 2009

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration

17 December 2014

Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration

15 January 2017

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering

1 November 2017

Twenty-Ninth Arab Summit (The Jerusalem Summit): Dhahran Declaration

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

Events

The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

4th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

29 May 1921 - 4 June 1921

12th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

1 September 1921 - 14 September 1921

White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration

Tripartite Declaration

Egyptian-Czech Arms Deal

27 September 1955

France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War

22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956

UNGA 3379 (XXX): Determining that Zionism is a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination

10 November 1975

16th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Arafat's "Cairo Declaration" on Terrorism

7 November 1985

Two Palestinian Newspapers Banned in Jerusalem

Fatah-DFLP-PCP Reconciliation: The Prague Declaration

6 September 1986

19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State

12 November 1988 - 15 November 1988

Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles Signed in Washington

13 September 1993

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem

11 October 1993

Start of Gaza-Jericho Negotiations, Taba

13 October 1993 - 8 December 1993

Multilevel Gaza-Jericho Negotiations

12 December 1993 - 23 February 1994

Statement S/PRST/1998/21 by SC President against Israel Broadening Boundaries of Jerusalem

To Declare a Palestinian State at the End of the Transitional Period?

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

27 April 1999 - 29 April 1999

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms its Applicability to the OPT

Lebanese MPs challenge the Constitutionality of Equating Immovable Property Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees with their Resettlement

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms Responsibility of all Contracting Parties in Ensuring its Respect

5 December 2001

14th Arab Summit Meets in Beirut and Adopts Saudi Peace Initiative

27 March 2002 - 28 March 2002

17th Arab Summit Meets in Algiers

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

22nd Arab Summit Meets in Sirte

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 7

20 November 2012

24th Arab Summit Meets in Doha

26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013

A PLO-Hamas Agreement (the Shati' Agreement) to Form a Conciliation Cabinet

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Addresses the 2014 Gaza War

17 December 2014

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

27th Arab Summit Meets in Nouakchott

Paris Conference for Peace in the Middle East

15 January 2017 - 16 January 2017

Palestinians Protest Israel's Killing of Basel al-Araj and Palestinian-Israeli Security Coordination

6 March 2017 - 28 March 2017

28th Arab Summit Meets at the Dead Sea

100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017

US President Trump Declares Jerusalem “Off the Table”

25 January 2018

29th Arab Summit Meets in Dhahran

30th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

US Officials Partake in Inauguration of Large-Scale Settler Project in East Jerusalem

US Peace Plan – Israeli Reaction

29 January 2020 - 9 February 2020

US Erases the 4-June Line

28 October 2020 - 19 November 2020

Historical Media

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

Highlights

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Palestinian National Congresses

1918 - 1934