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Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Freih Abu Middein

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

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

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Events

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Foundation of Tel Aviv

Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul

July 1909 - March 1915

11th Zionist Congress Meets in Vienna

2 September 1913 - 9 September 1913

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

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front

21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

10 January 1920

Founding of the Haganah, the Jewish Paramilitary Organization

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

May Day Clashes in Jaffa

1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921

Report of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry on Jaffa Disturbances

Anti-Balfour Demonstrations in Palestine

25 March 1925 - 1 April 1925

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

Pan-Islamic Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1931 - 17 December 1931

The British Issue the Press Ordinance

17 January 1935

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police

May 1936 - September 1936

The Settlement of Tel ‘Amal Is Founded Overnight in the Baysan Region

10 December 1936

Charles Tegart's Means of Control

3 December 1937

Irgun Attacks Against Palestinians Intensify

July 1938 - August 1938

Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York

6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

Establishment of Lebanese Consulate General in Palestine

30 December 1944 - 23 May 1945

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks

24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946

An Irgun Attack on British

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

New Wave of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

9 September 1946 - 2 December 1946

More Irgun Operations Against the British

29 December 1946 - 28 January 1947

Continuation of Zionist-British Confrontation

16 April 1947 - 26 April 1947

Zionist Attacks Against Palestinians

21 May 1947 - 15 August 1947

The Haganah Implements Plan Gimmel

1 December 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

Palestinian Attacks

14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948

Zionist Military Preparations

14 January 1948 - 20 February 1948

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

SC Res. 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine

Arms for the Zionist Forces

1 April 1948 - 14 May 1948

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem

26 April 1948 - 30 April 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Operation Barak Toward the South

9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv

13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Israeli Intelligence Report on the Depopulation of Palestine until 31 May 1948

Jordan and Israel Sign Agreement on Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem

8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948

Israel Strengthens Its Political Control over Jerusalem; Military Government Dissolved

20 December 1948 - 17 February 1949

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

Israel's Measures to Make Jerusalem Its Capital

23 January 1950 - 13 July 1953

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

Led by George Habash, Arab Nationalist Activists on the Way to Structure Their Movement

1 January 1951 - 30 November 1952

Palestinians in Israel Protest the Nationality law

Israel's Foreign Ministry Moves to Jerusalem

10 July 1953 - 12 July 1953

Israel Carries out an Intelligence Operation in Syria and the First Airline Hijacking in the History of the Conflict

8 December 1954 - 14 December 1954

Pressures and Assurances to Israel on Gulf of Aqaba and Gaza

20 February 1957 - 1 March 1957

Palestinian Delegation at the UN

18 October 1963 - 5 November 1963

Israeli-Syrian Aerial Battle

7 April 1967 - 21 April 1967

Reports on Israeli Plans Against Syria

12 May 1967 - 14 May 1967

Small Fraction of 1967 War Refugees to Return to the West Bank

14 August 1967 - 19 October 1967

Settlement Attempt in Hebron

12 April 1968 - 16 June 1968

Civil Aviation in the Conflict

23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969

Black September Hijack Operation

Mahmoud al-Hamshari Is Assassinated in Paris

8 December 1972 - 9 January 1973

Hussein Bashir Abu al-Khayr Is Assassinated in Nicosia

24 January 1973

Basil al-Kubaisi Assassinated in Paris

Arab Oil, a Weapon in the Battle

17 October 1973 - 21 October 1973

Palestinian Operations from South Lebanon

5 March 1975 - 20 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum on Israeli Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel

1 March 1976 - April 1976

Failed Attempt to Open a PLO Information Office in Washington

19 November 1976

Fatah Commando Operation and Israel's "Litani Operation"

11 March 1978 - 18 March 1978

A Probable Israeli Nuclear Test Explosion in the Ocean near South Africa

22 September 1979

Israeli Model for Palestinian Self-Governing Authority

17 January 1980

Birzeit University Is Closed

14 November 1980

The Knesset Issues Amendment 16 to the Planning and Building Law, 1965

12 February 1981

Palestinian Writers in Occupied Territories Affirm Commitment to Palestine Cause

Majid Abu Sharar Is Assassinated in Rome

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

Several Israeli Attempts to Assassinate Yasir Arafat During Invasion of Lebanon

15 June 1982 - 30 August 1982

Israeli Measures Against Palestinian Universities

2 November 1983 - 30 July 1984

Israeli Repression in the Occupied Territories

4 December 1986 - 11 December 1986

Clashes in the Occupied Territories

9 February 1987 - 18 February 1987

Closure of Palestinian Universities

Deportation of Marwan Barghouti and Khalil Achour

Closure of Bethlehem University

28 October 1987

Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

9 December 1987

One-Month Closure of Academic Institutions in the West Bank

2 February 1988

The Intifada and the Israeli Response in Another Stage in the Confrontation

11 March 1988 - 29 March 1988

Israel Deports Five Palestinians

US Voices Dissatisfaction with Israel

23 February 1990 - 3 March 1990

The US Administration Suspends Dialogue with the PLO

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

9 August 1990 - 10 August 1990

Haram al-Sharif Killings

Arafat Survives a Plane Crash in Libya

7 April 1992 - 8 April 1992

8th Negotiation Round, Washington

7 December 1992 - 16 December 1992

Norwegian Secret Channel, Exploratory Stage

20 January 1993 - 9 May 1993

Palestinians Agree to Return to Washington Negotiations

Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv; Rabin and the National Separation Idea

19 October 1994

Suicide Bombings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

25 February 1996 - 4 March 1996

Palestinian Response to Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Project

27 February 1997 - 10 April 1997

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

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

European Union Declaration "Compensating" the PLO for Not Declaring a State

Failure to Reach a FAPS by 13 February 2000 Target Date

8 December 1999 - 6 February 2000

Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories

17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000

Israeli-Palestinian (Post-Stockholm) Back Channel

1 June 2000 - 3 June 2000

Attempts to Revive Final Status Talks

16 August 2000 - 28 September 2000

Israeli Retaliatory Strategy and First Signs of a "Militarized" Intifada

19 October 2000 - 7 November 2000

Assassination of Dr. Thabet Thabet in Tulkarm

31 December 2000

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

New Threshold Crossed with Suicide Bombing and Warplanes

18 May 2001 - 4 June 2001

The Tenet Cease-Fire Plan

11 June 2001 - 20 June 2001

Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath

17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001

Invasion of Bethlehem: The Siege of the Church of the Nativity

1 April 2002 - 10 May 2002

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

The Knesset Adopts the “Criminal Procedure Law (Interrogating Suspects)"

26 June 2002 - 12 December 2016

Aftermath of Salah Shehadeh's Assassination

22 July 2002 - 14 August 2002

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

18 September 2002 - 29 September 2002

Israel Unable to Quell Palestinian Attacks

10 October 2002 - 5 January 2003

Unilateral Cease-Fire Announcement and Gaza-First Arrangements

21 June 2003 - 2 July 2003

Timing New Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Speech on Disengagement Plan

18 December 2003 - 31 January 2004

Israel Launches Operation Continuous Story Against Palestinian Leaders

14 March 2004 - 5 April 2004

An Egyptian Security Plan for the PA

24 May 2004 - 6 July 2004

Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination

15 February 2005 - 30 April 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Fatah's Confused Preparation

25 November 2005 - 28 December 2005

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Palestinian Reactions

27 January 2006 - 4 May 2006

Israel Launches Operation Southern Arrow

30 March 2006 - 14 May 2006

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

1 April 2006 - 6 September 2006

Assassination of Ahmad Awad and Ramzi Shuhaybir in Gaza City

8 November 2006

The US Revisits the Road Map

14 January 2007 - 15 January 2007

Israeli Operation Hot Winter in Nablus

25 February 2007 - 7 March 2007

Nablus Remains a Hot Spot

15 December 2007 - 5 January 2008

Assassination of Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah in Damascus

12 February 2008

Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza

28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: A Disappointing Abbas-Bush Meeting

Israel Refuses an Egyptian-Brokered Gaza Cease-Fire Offer

30 April 2008 - 12 May 2008

Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened

5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008

The War on Gaza (2008-09): Operation Cast Lead/ Battle of al-Furqan

27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 2

28 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 3

29 December 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks: Palestinian Stocktaking

War on Gaza: US-Israel MOU on Arms Smuggling into Gaza

16 January 2009

Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza

Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University on Peace and Security for Israel

Fayyad's Speech at Al-Quds University on Setting the Goal for Statehood in Two Years

Goldstone Report on the War on Gaza

15 September 2009 - 25 September 2009

Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai

20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010

Palestinian Municipal Elections Announced and Delayed

8 February 2010 - 12 February 2011

Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem

21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010

US Makes Incredible Offer to Israel in Exchange for a Two-Month Partial Settlement Freeze

29 September 2010 - 12 December 2010

Al Jazeera Satellite TV and the Guardian Release the Palestine Papers

23 January 2011

State of Palestine: Application for Admission to Membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

In Contrast with Islamic Jihad, Hamas Leadership Leaves Syria

17 January 2012 - 12 March 2012

Assassination of Zuhair al-Qaissi and Mahmoud Hanani in Gaza City

Israel’s Settlement Activity

6 June 2012 - 13 August 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza

14 November 2012 - 22 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet

22 November 2012

Hamas and Fatah Exchange Reconciliation Gestures

22 November 2012 - 7 February 2013

Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip

8 December 2012

Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

Rami Hamdallah Forms New Palestinian Government

2 June 2013 - 6 June 2013

Tension Mounts Over Haram al-Sharif Following Israeli Provocations

4 February 2014 - 26 February 2014

Abbas Meeting with Kerry in Paris Ends in Total Failure

19 February 2014 - 21 February 2014

Dangerous Escalation on the Gaza Front

3 July 2014 - 7 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 1

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 4 and 5

11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014

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 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 21-24

28 July 2014 - 31 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 43

The 2014 Gaza War: Days 44-50

20 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

The PLO Strives for a Security Council Resolution Specifying a Timetable for Ending the Occupation

26 September 2014 - 28 November 2014

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

President Abbas Signs Acceptance of the ICC Jurisdiction and Accession to the ICC Rome Statute

31 December 2014 - 7 January 2015

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

Hamas's Military Wing Outlawed in Egypt

31 January 2015 - 28 February 2015

UNHRC Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Settlement Construction

23 July 2015 - 17 November 2015

In Retaliation to Palestinian Attacks, Yatta and Hebron Towns Are Collectively Targeted

8 June 2016 - 11 August 2016

The PLO Executive Committee Decides to Boycott the Quartet

3 July 2016 - 10 July 2016

Continued Violation of the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif

President-Elect Trump for the "Ultimate Deal" Between Israel and the Palestinians

11 November 2016

Israel Races for Settlement Activities with an Eye on Trump

22 January 2017 - 1 February 2017

Trump's Ambiguous Statement on Palestinian-Israeli Issues after his First Meeting as President with Netanyahu

15 February 2017

Israel's State Comptroller Publishes Report on Gaza 2014 War

28 February 2017

Trump's Aides Seem Ready to Embark on Devising a Peace Plan

Despite a Good Start, the Egypt-Sponsored Fatah-Hamas Agreement Finally Fails

1 November 2017 - 10 December 2017

President Trump Announces the Official US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Assassination Attempt on Muhammad Hamdan in Sidon

14 January 2018 - 29 January 2018

Assassination Attempt on PA PM Hamdallah and Intel Chief Faraj in Bayt Hanun

13 March 2018 - 19 March 2018

Taylor Force Act Signed into Law

Palestinian Professor of Engineering Fadi al-Batsh Assassinated in Kuala Lumpur

The US Opens its Embassy in Jerusalem; Guatemala and Paraguay (Temporarily) Follow Suit

14 May 2018 - 15 May 2018

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

19 July 2018 - 30 July 2018

Colombia Recognizes the State of Palestine

Talks for a Long-Term Gaza Cease-Fire

7 August 2018 - 10 November 2018

The US Replaces its Consulate General in Jerusalem by a Palestinian Affairs Unit within its New Embassy

18 October 2018

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

Australia Recognizes West Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

15 December 2018

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

22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019

30th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected

10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019

PA President Mahmoud Abbas Tells UNGA that He Plans General Elections

26 September 2019 - 10 December 2019

Israeli Coalition Negotiations Hint at Partial Annexation of the West Bank

20 April 2020 - 17 May 2020

International and Palestinian Responses to Israel’s Annexation Plans

18 May 2020 - 23 June 2020

Creeping Normalization

19 May 2020 - 25 June 2020

President Trump Announces Kosovo Will Normalize Relations with Israel

4 September 2020 - 7 September 2020

Four Countries to Open Embassies to Israel in Jerusalem

20 September 2020 - 2 December 2020

Morocco Normalizes Relations with Israel in Exchange for US Recognition of Western Sahara as Part of Morocco

10 December 2020 - 14 December 2020

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 2

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 7

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 8

The General Strike of the Unity Intifada

Great Britain Designates Hamas’s Political Wing as a Terrorist Organization

19 November 2021 - 26 November 2021

Historical Texts

Basel (Zionist) Program

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

1st Palestinian National Congress: Report to Paris Peace Conference (in Arabic)

1st Palestinian National Congress: Petition to Paris Peace Conference (in Arabic)

3 February 1919

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

Resolutions of the General Palestinian Congress in Damascus (in Arabic)

27 February 1920

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Statement of the Arab National Conference (in Arabic)

13 December 1931

Communiqué: Formation of the Arab Independence Party; the Party Bylaws (in Arabic)

National Fund: Establishment of Company to Save the Lands of Palestine (in Arabic)

11 October 1932

The Murison Commission Report

National Defense Party: Objectives (in Arabic)

2 December 1934

The Palestine Arab Party: Bylaws and Internal Regulations (in Arabic)

The Palestinian Arab Reform Party: Objectives (in Arabic)

Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

Pact of the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Arab Summit Resolutions, Anshas (in Arabic)

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UNSC Resolution 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine

UNSC Resolution 46

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

UNSC Resolution 53

Jordan-Israel Agreement: For the Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration (in Arabic)

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Israel: Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance No. 29 of 1948

16 September 1948

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

Provisional Bylaws of All-Palestine Government (in Arabic)

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

Resolutions of the Jericho Conference on Palestinian-Jordanian Unity (in Arabic)

1 December 1948

Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Egypt And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

12 September 1950

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine No. 255 of 1955 (in Arabic)

25 February 1958

Lebanon’s Department for Palestinian Refugee Affairs (in Arabic)

Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)

5 November 1963

Palestine National Council, 1st Session: List of Members (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Palestine National Council, 1st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Second Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)

5 September 1964 - 11 September 1964

President Bourguiba's Speech on the Palestine Question (in Arabic)

Palestine National Council, 2nd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

Protocol for the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

11 September 1965

Palestine National Council, 3rd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

UNGA Resolution 2443 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

UNSC Resolution 271

15 September 1969

UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)

10 December 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Emergency Arab Summit, 1970: Statement (in Arabic)

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)

30 November 1970

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Palestinian Popular Congress, Statement (in Arabic)

6 April 1972 - 10 April 1972

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Statement (in Arabic)

12 January 1973

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

UNSC Resolution 338

22 October 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3237 (XXIX)

22 November 1974

Statement of the General Congress to Defend Arab Lands in Israel (in Arabic)

18 October 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Admission of Palestine as Full Member in Arab League (in Arabic)

9 September 1976

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Statement by Palestinian Institutions in the Occupied Territories on Sadat’s Visit to Israel

8 December 1977

Begin's Autonomy Plan

28 December 1977

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

The Venice Declaration

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement (in Arabic)

18 February 1985

UNSC Resolution 605

22 December 1987

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

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

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

13 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20463

17 February 1989

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20945/Rev.1

6 November 1989

Hamas’s Memorandum on Restructuring the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1990: Statement (in Arabic)

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Palestine National Council, 21st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

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

List of Transitional Issues Not Implemented by the Israeli Side, According to the PA Negotiations Affairs Department (in Arabic)

9 February 2000

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

Reorganization of Lebanon’s Department for Refugee Affairs (in Arabic)

14 October 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

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

Thirteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

The Mitchell Report

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

UNSC Resolution 1397

The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories

UNSC Resolution 1405

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

Fifteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

Sixteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

22 May 2004 - 23 May 2004

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

Palestinian Dialogue Conference (in Arabic)

Seventeenth Arab Summit: The Algiers Declaration (in Arabic)

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

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

14 December 2005

Eighteenth Arab Summit: The Khartoum Declaration (in Arabic)

28 March 2006 - 29 March 2006

Nineteenth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

Statement of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (in Arabic)

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

PLO Central Council, Statement (in Arabic)

The Palestine Announcement in Lebanon (in Arabic)

President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

10 January 2008

Final Statement of the Palestinian National Conference (in Arabic)

25 January 2008

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

Yemen's Initiative for the Resumption of Palestinian Internal Dialogue (in Arabic)

Twentieth Arab Summit: The Damascus Declaration (in Arabic)

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 January 2009

Twenty-First Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

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

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)

Egypt's View on Ending Palestinian Division (in Arabic)

9 September 2009

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

25 September 2009

Agreement on Palestinian National Conciliation (Draft) (in Arabic)

10 October 2009

UNGA Resolution 64/10

1 December 2009

Twenty-Second Arab Summit: The Sirte Declaration (in Arabic)

Statement by the President of the Security Council S/PRST/2010/9

Provision on Palestinian Workers in Amended Lebanese Social Security Law (in Arabic)

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

Implementation Mechanisms of the Palestinian National Conciliation Agreement: Minutes of Palestinian Factions' Meeting (in Arabic)

20 December 2011

The Doha Declaration on Palestinian Reconciliation (in Arabic)

6 February 2012

Twenty-Third Arab Summit: The Baghdad Declaration

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

Twenty-Fourth Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013

Twenty-Fifth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Statement Issued after a PLO-Hamas Meeting to End Division and Implement the National Reconciliation Agreement (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Twenty-Sixth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 March 2015 - 29 March 2015

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Report of the Quartet (in Arabic)

Twenty-Seventh Arab Summit: The Nouakchott Declaration (in Arabic)

Fatah's 7th General Conference: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Statement of the Preparatory Committee for the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

11 January 2017

Closing Statement of the Popular Conference for the Palestinians Abroad (in Arabic)

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

Twenty-Eighth Arab Summit: The Amman Declaration (in Arabic)

Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

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

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

1 November 2017

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (in Arabic)

13 December 2017

Palestine National Council, 23rd Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018

PLO Central Council, 29th Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)

28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018

Palestinian Prime Minister's Letter to Secretary of State on No Longer Accepting US Assistance

26 December 2018

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2019: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

12 February 2020

Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates

Meeting of Palestinian Organizations' Secretaries-General: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

3 September 2020

Abraham Accords: Declaration of Peace, Cooperation, and Constructive Diplomatic and Friendly Relations, Announced by the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain

15 September 2020

Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada

HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Figures

1914 - 1947

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Birth Rate

1924 - 1948

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Death Rate

1924 - 1948

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Natural Growth

1924 - 1948

Document

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”, 1932, 1951 and 2015

1932 - 2015

Historical Media

Jaffa Road during a General Strike

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

Lord Peel in Front of King David Hotel

Peel Commission and Partition

11 November 1936

King David Hotel

Scenes of Destruction

Haganah in Jerusalem

We'll Meet In Tel Aviv!

Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities

1944 - 1947

Thematic Chronology

Lebanon War, 2006

2006 - 2008

Highlights

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

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

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

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

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

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

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

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 Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

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

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

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

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

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 Bosnians of Palestine

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 Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses