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1859 - 21 July 1921

1865 - 3 March 1948

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

1917 - 12 December 2003

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1927 - 13 January 2005

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

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

1936 - 3 August 1978

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

1942 - 6 August 2019

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Events

2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898

3rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

15 August 1899 - 18 August 1899

4th Zionist Congress Is Held in London

13 August 1900 - 16 August 1900

5th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

26 December 1901 - 30 December 1901

Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism

8th Zionist Congress Is Held in the Hague

14 July 1907 - 21 July 1907

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law

The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

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

10 January 1920

Transfer of Land Ordinance

The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London

2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922

Land Settlement Ordinance No. 9

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

Hope Simpson Report Is Published

22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

Outbreak of World War II

1 September 1939

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN; Acknowledges Transjordan's Independence

22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946

Absentee Property Law, 5710-1950

Development Authority (Transfer of Property) Law, 5710-1950

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

Land Acquisition (Validation of Acts and Compensation) Law

Egypt-UNRWA Agreement on Plans for Refugee Resettlement Projects

Britain, France, and Israel Sign the Protocol of Sèvres

22 October 1956 - 24 October 1956

Lebanon Establishes a Higher Commission for Palestine Affairs

Basic Law: Israel Lands

Palestine Arab Delegation (PAD) Office Is Opened in New York

26 June 1961 - 26 June 2001

Egypt's War of Attrition

8 March 1969 - 7 August 1970

Absentees' Property (Compensation) Law, 5733-1973

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

11th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination for Peace Talks

26 February 1984 - 1 March 1984

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Amman

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

Jordan Severs Ties with the West Bank

28 July 1988 - 4 August 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

President Bush Outlines US Goals Following the Gulf War

20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991

Conference on Multilateral Peace Talks, Moscow

28 January 1992 - 29 January 1992

Multilateral Talks

11 May 1992 - 13 May 1992

Multilateral Talks

29 October 1992 - 12 November 1992

Israeli Restrictions on the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem

17 August 1995 - 31 August 1995

Ceremonious Start of Permanent Status Negotiations, Taba

5 May 1996 - 7 May 1996

Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement to Be Constructed

26 February 1997

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

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

UNGA Res. ES-10/7: Expresses Concern over Israeli-Palestinian Clashes and Respect for 4th Geneva Convention

20 October 2000

The US War Against Iraq; Security Developments in the West Bank and Gaza

17 March 2003 - 9 April 2003

Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan

London Meeting on Supporting the Palestinian Authority

The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Is Established

25 November 2005

Palestinians in Jaffa Protest Eviction Plans of Israel Land Administration

Reactions to West Bank-Gaza Strip Split

17 June 2007 - 20 June 2007

Effects of the Siege of Gaza on Private Sector Production

9 December 2007 - 9 January 2008

Donors' Conference in Paris Supports Abbas's PA; PEGASE to Replace TIM

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

Gaza Palestinians Break Out into Sinai

23 January 2008 - 3 February 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Intensify

4 February 2008 - 24 February 2008

War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks

10 January 2009

The New Netanyahu Government Prepares its Position on the Palestinian Issue

31 March 2009 - 5 May 2009

Salam Fayyad's Government Issues “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State” Plan

25 August 2009 - 24 September 2009

Amid US Pressure for Direct Talks, Provocative Settlement Measures Continue

29 July 2010 - 15 August 2010

Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion

12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011

Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

17 February 2014

Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

The 2014 Gaza War

7 July 2014 - 26 August 2014

A Lebanese Government Readiness to Facilitate Licensing of Palestinian Associations

Israeli Elections: Likud's Victory and Strengthening of Arab Representation

17 March 2015 - 19 March 2015

Tony Blair Resigns as Quartet Representative; Quartet Office Redefined

27 May 2015 - 11 June 2015

A Third Intifada or a Temporary Outburst?

2 October 2015 - 31 January 2016

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

The Quartet Issues a Report on the Impediments to Palestinian-Israeli Settlement

Assassination of Muhammad Zuwari in Sfax

15 December 2016

China's New Four-Point Proposal for Settlement of Palestinian Question

PA Requests Membership of International Treaties and Conventions in Response to US Embassy Move

24 March 2018 - 6 June 2018

Trump Peace Negotiating Team to Travel to Middle East

15 June 2018 - 24 June 2018

US Cuts Aid to Palestinians

24 August 2018 - 14 September 2018

UNGA Res. 73/5 Accords Privileges to Palestine as Chair of Group of 77 for 2019

16 October 2018

PM Hamdallah Rejects any US Assistance Related to ATCA

26 December 2018 - 1 February 2019

Israel Raids and Closes Offices of Human Rights Organizations in the West Bank

28 February 2021 - 15 September 2021

US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes

7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021

Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Organizations as Terrorist Organizations

22 October 2021 - 17 November 2021

Historical Texts

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Shaw Commission Report

The Hope Simpson Report

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

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

1 December 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Grady-Morrison Plan

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UNSC Resolution 48

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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

UNSC Resolution 54

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

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

UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)

26 January 1952

UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys

UNGA Resolution 997 (ES-I)

2 November 1956

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

UNSC Resolution 171

Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Final Statement

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

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

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

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution

29 October 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3237 (XXIX)

22 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNSC Resolution 381

30 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12022

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 1977

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

17 September 1978

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

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

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

31 January 1982

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

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/230

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

Statement by President Reagan on Opening American-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to Peace Talks in Madrid

18 October 1991

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

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

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

28 September 1995

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

UNSC Resolution 1073

28 September 1996

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241

UNGA Resolution ES-10/3

Statement by the President of the Security Council S/PRST/1998/21

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement

23 December 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

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

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

27 January 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal For an Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire and Resumption of Negotiations

The Mitchell Report

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

The Durban Declaration

8 September 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/1199

14 December 2001

UNSC Resolution 1405

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385

20 December 2002

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

Agreement on Movement and Access In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

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

National Conciliation Document

UNSC Resolution 1701

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Joint Understanding Between Israel and the PLO Read by President Bush

27 November 2007

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

UNSC Resolution 1850

16 December 2008

UNGA Resolution ES-18

23 January 2009

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

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

25 September 2009

Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

China's Four-Point Proposal for Settlement of Palestinian Question

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

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

China’s Four-Point Proposal on Promoting the Settlement of the Palestinian Issue

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

Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

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

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

26 December 2018

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

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

Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Egypt and Jordan (The Munich Group)

11 January 2021

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

12 January 2021

Highlights

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Marka Refugee Camp

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

Balata Refugee Camp

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

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

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

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Lebanon War, 1982

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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

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 Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

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

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

XIII. A Growingly Intractable Deadlock

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

The May 2021 Gaza War

2021

Thematic Chronology

Military Operations and Zionist Ethnic Cleansing

1946 - 1949

Thematic Chronology

Egyptian-Israeli Negotiation Rounds on Palestinian Autonomy

1977 - 1982

Thematic Chronology

Lebanon War, 2006

2006 - 2008