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1859 - 21 July 1921

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Basel (Zionist) Program

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Council of the League of Nations: Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate: Approving the Memorandum by the British Representative

16 September 1922

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Proposed New Constitution for Palestine

22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935

Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan

Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)

Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Begin's Autonomy Plan

28 December 1977

Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)

17 September 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

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

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process

17 October 2005

List of Jobs and Professions Restricted to Lebanese Citizens (in Arabic)

14 December 2005

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

National Conciliation Document

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/508

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

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

25 September 2009

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada

Events

Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Arab League Holds its First Summit on Palestine in Anshas

28 May 1946 - 29 May 1946

Arab Delegations Put Forward Constitutional Proposals to the London Round Table Conference on Palestine

30 September 1946

Trusteeship Plan for Palestine

Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv

13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948

Israel's Provisional Council Enacts Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance

23 September 1948

Israel Conducts its First Population Census

8 November 1948 - 1 February 1949

Israel Enacts the Registration of Inhabitants Ordinance

1 February 1949

Israeli Law of Return

The Knesset Enacts the Nationality Law

Palestinians in Israel Protest the Nationality law

The Knesset Adopts the Law of State Education

Jordanian Nationality Law

16 February 1954

The Knesset Issues the Prevention of Infiltration Law

With Mounting Tension In and Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel

3 April 1955 - 27 September 1955

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

Palestinians in Israel Stage a General Strike to Protest the Kafr Qasim Massacre

A Lebanese Decree, Implicitly Applicable to Palestinian Refugees, Regulates Work of Foreigners

18 September 1964

The PLO Opens its First Information Office in New York

22 January 1965 - 29 October 1974

Reservations of Lebanon, Kuwait and Libya to the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

Naturalization in Lebanon and the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

Israeli-Jordanian Battle at al-Samu' after a Fatah Operation

11 November 1966 - 13 November 1966

Military Order No. 321 Concerning Land Law (Acquisition for Public Purposes)

Israeli Military Operation in South Lebanon

25 February 1972 - 28 February 1972

Israeli Military Operation in South Lebanon

21 June 1972 - 24 June 1972

Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel

Plane Hijacked to Entebbe

27 June 1976 - 4 July 1976

Israel's Autonomy Plan for the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 December 1977

A Palestine Information Office (PIO) Is Opened in Washington

6th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria

26 September 1979 - 27 September 1979

South Lebanon Cease-fire Is Broken

21 April 1982 - 9 May 1982

Israeli Repression in the Occupied Territories

4 December 1986 - 11 December 1986

Clashes in the Occupied Territories

9 February 1987 - 18 February 1987

The US Orders the Closure of the Palestine Information Office (PIO) in Washington

15 September 1987 - 5 August 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Amman

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections

1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989

The Knesset Enacts the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty

Palestinian Police Shoot on Demonstrators in Gaza

18 November 1994 - 23 November 1994

The Beilin-Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Palestinian Response to Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Project

27 February 1997 - 10 April 1997

Suicide Bombings in West Jerusalem: Israeli Reactions and Palestinian Measures

30 July 1997 - 25 September 1997

Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem

25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998

Setting Up Israeli-Palestinian Back Channel

1 December 1999 - 5 May 2000

The PA Releases First Batch of New Textbooks

2 September 2000

Toward a Protracted Confrontation

10 November 2000 - 22 December 2000

Operation Bronze and Escalation

7 March 2001 - 16 May 2001

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

Lebanon's Constitutional Council Upholds the Prohibition of Real Estate Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees

Massive Israeli Invasion: Operation Defensive Shield

28 March 2002 - 10 May 2002

Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Carries Out Operation Determined Path

18 June 2002 - 16 July 2002

Israeli Operation Matter of Time; Siege on Arafat Tightened; Protests All Over Occupied Territories

18 September 2002 - 29 September 2002

The Knesset Enacts the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) 2003 for Banning Family Unification

Palestinian Peace Gestures

1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004

The Lebanese Minister of Labor Removes some Restrictions on the Work of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

7 June 2005 - 14 December 2005

Israeli Raid on Jericho Jail

14 March 2006 - 18 March 2006

Israel’s Campaign Against Non-ID Holders in the West Bank

1 April 2006 - 6 September 2006

Fatah-Hamas Clashes

26 May 2006 - 24 June 2006

Israeli Operation Hot Winter in Nablus

25 February 2007 - 7 March 2007

Israel Escalates Attacks in Gaza and the West Bank

3 April 2007 - 29 May 2007

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

Gaza Cease-Fire Falls Apart

14 December 2008 - 21 December 2008

Gaza Tenuous Cease-Fire

27 January 2009 - 12 February 2009

US-Israel Disagreement Over the Settlements Freeze

26 June 2009 - 28 July 2009

Clashes in East Jerusalem over al-Aqsa Mosque

27 September 2009 - 25 October 2009

Establishment of Palestinian National Dignity Fund

12 January 2010 - 18 May 2010

Two Spates of Clashes Across Gaza Border

16 March 2011 - 10 April 2011

The Knesset Passes the Citizenship Law (Amendment No. 10) Conditioning Citizenship on Loyalty

The Knesset Passes Israel Lands Law (Amendment No. 3) on Foreign Ownership

Dangerous Surge of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in and across Gaza

14 October 2012 - 13 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on the Gaza Strip, Day 1

14 November 2012

Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israel's Assault on Gaza

16 November 2012 - 21 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet

22 November 2012

Tension Mounts Over Haram al-Sharif Following Israeli Provocations

4 February 2014 - 26 February 2014

Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

17 February 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 6−8

13 July 2014 - 15 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 9 and 10

16 July 2014 - 17 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 32-42: Three Days of Fighting Followed by Eight Days of Truce

8 August 2014 - 18 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: Days 44-50

20 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

A Lebanese Government Readiness to Facilitate Licensing of Palestinian Associations

The 2014 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

Ziad Abu Ain Dies After Being Struck by Israeli Soldiers During a Peaceful Demonstration

10 December 2014 - 11 December 2014

Settlement Construction

23 July 2015 - 17 November 2015

Tension Escalates at Haram al-Sharif

2 August 2015 - 28 September 2015

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

Israel's Policy Toward the Palestinian Outburst

4 October 2015 - 13 October 2015

Palestinians in Israel Express their Concern and Solidarity with the Palestinian Outburst

5 October 2015 - 28 November 2015

France Plans to Resume its Peace Initiative

29 January 2016 - 16 February 2016

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

Settlers Attempt to Modify the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif

5 February 2017 - 24 May 2017

Israel Closes Off the Haram al-Sharif Following a Palestinian Operation in the Old City of Jerusalem

14 July 2017 - 15 July 2017

Palestinian Popular Response to Israel's Measures over the Haram al-Sharif

16 July 2017 - 23 July 2017

Assassination Attempt on Muhammad Hamdan in Sidon

14 January 2018 - 29 January 2018

The Knesset Passes Legislation that Allows to Revoke Permanent Residency from East Jerusalemites

The Knesset Passes Legislation Withholding Bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli Forces

The Knesset Passes Basic Law: Israel the Nation-State of the Jewish People

19 July 2018 - 30 July 2018

Botched Undercover Israeli Operation in Gaza Sparks Exchange of Fire

11 November 2018 - 13 November 2018

PM Hamdallah Rejects any US Assistance Related to ATCA

26 December 2018 - 1 February 2019

The Waqf Reopens Bab al-Rahma at the Haram al-Sharif Compound

14 February 2019 - 17 March 2019

Israeli Violence Ahead of One-Year Anniversary of Great March of Return; Egyptian Restraint Efforts

22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019

Israeli Bombing Resumes Against Gaza

1 May 2019 - 5 May 2019

Palestinian Citizens of Israel Protest Israeli Police Inaction in Solving Violent Crimes

28 September 2019 - 5 November 2019

Palestinian Court Orders to Block Access to Dozens of Websites

17 October 2019

US Congress Amends ATCA to Resume Funding for PA Security Forces

20 December 2019

Trump Administration Presents Peace Plan

28 January 2020

Israel Uses COVID-19 Against Palestinians

21 March 2020 - 22 September 2020

Sudan to Normalize Ties with Israel in Exchange for US Incentives

25 August 2020 - 23 September 2021

US Erases the 4-June Line

28 October 2020 - 19 November 2020

Israel Launches COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign but Excludes Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

19 December 2020 - 22 December 2020

Murder Rate Among Palestinian Citizens of Israel Remains High Amid Israeli Police Inaction

21 December 2020

Hightened Tension over Attempts to Evict Palestinian Families from Sheikh Jarrah

15 February 2021 - 9 May 2021

Israeli-Imposed Restrictions and Violence at the Haram al-Sharif Compound

13 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

Towards a Unity Intifada

23 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

Evyatar Outpost Resettled; Palestinian Protesters Killed or Injured

3 May 2021 - 31 December 2021

The May 2021 Gaza War

10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 2

The General Strike of the Unity Intifada

Death of Nizar Banat after Arrest by PA Forces

24 June 2021 - 21 June 2022

Israel Is Readmitted as an Observer Country to the African Union, Later Suspended

22 July 2021 - 20 February 2023

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Marka Refugee Camp

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat 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

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses