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Biographies

Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Biography
Ihsan al-Nimr
1905 - 21 May 1985
Biography
Emile Touma
16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Bassam Shak’a
1930 - 22 July 2019

Events

Event
Publication of The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
February 1896
Event
1st Zionist Congress in Basel Calls for a Jewish Home in Palestine
29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897
Event
2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898
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2nd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine
1904 - 1914
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Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa
December 1908
Event
Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives
June 1909 - 2 November 1909
Event
First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament
March 1911 - May 1911
Event
Publication of Zionism by Najib Nassar
October 1911
Event
Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)
1917 - 1921
Event
14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna
18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925
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Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York
August 1937 - May 1941
Event
Alexandria Protocol and the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Event
Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May
12 April 1948
Event
23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951
Event
27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968
Event
5th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
1 February 1969 - 4 February 1969
Event
Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement
21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970
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UNGA 3379 (XXX): Determining that Zionism is a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination
10 November 1975
Event
13th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
Event
30th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
7 December 1982 - 16 December 1982
Event
4th Visit of US Secretary of State Shultz to the Region
3 June 1988 - 7 June 1988
Event
UNGA 46/86: Revoking UNGA 3379 (XXX) that Had Determined Zionism as a Form of Racism
16 December 1991
Event
34th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
17 June 2002 - 20 June 2002

Historical Texts

Document
Basel (Zionist) Program
30 August 1897
Document
Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi
19 March 1899
Document
Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission
3 July 1919
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Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
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Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
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Charter of the Arab Youth Congress
4 January 1932
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Peel Commission Report
July 1937
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The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Document
Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine
1 October 1948
Document
Palestine National (qawmi) Charter
28 May 1964
Document
Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
Document
Palestine National (watani) Charter
10 July 1968
Document
Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement
4 February 1969
Document
Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement
6 September 1969
Document
Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions
4 June 1970
Document
Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions
28 August 1970
Document
Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution
5 March 1971
Document
Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement
13 July 1971
Document
Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program
10 April 1972
Document
Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory
15 August 1973
Document
Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions
28 November 1973
Document
Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement
28 November 1973
Document
Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program
12 December 1973
Document
PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)
8 June 1974
Document
Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
Document
UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
Document
Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
Document
PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel
30 November 1977
Document
Statement by Palestinian Institutions in the Occupied Territories on Sadat’s Visit to Israel
8 December 1977
Document
Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme
15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979
Document
Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
Document
Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement
14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983
Document
Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement
20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement
28 September 1991
Document
The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada
18 May 2021

Highlights

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Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
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The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
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The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
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Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
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Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
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World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
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Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
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France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
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The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
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The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)
After the Nakba
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP
1967-present
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The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
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II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
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I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
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The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
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The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
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China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
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The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)
Before the Nakba
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Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
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Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
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UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
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Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
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Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
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Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
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The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
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Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
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The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question
Solidarity of the Colonized
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The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
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Palestine Liberation Organization (I)
The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement
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Palestinian Music in Exile
Traditions and Resistance

Periods

Period
I. Ottoman Rule