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Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

1907 - 27 July 2006

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

1936 - 3 August 1978

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

Events

6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel, Discusses the Uganda Scheme

23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903

House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine

20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922

Prevention of Crime (Tribal and Village Areas) Ordinance Goes into Effect

Military Recruitment in Palestine

3 September 1939

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

Setting up an Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question

23 September 1947 - 25 November 1947

Operation Barak Toward the South

9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948

Situation on Jordanian-Israeli Lines Continues to Deteriorate; Israeli Raid on Qalqilya

4 October 1956 - 11 October 1956

UNGA Res. 2649 (XXV): Condemning Denial of Right to Self-Determination to Peoples of South Africa and Palestine

30 November 1970

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

22 September 1979

FAPS Target Date Extended to 13 May: The Bolling Rounds

7 March 2000 - 20 April 2000

Launch of the South African Peace Initiative (Spier Initiative)

11 January 2002 - 12 January 2002

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

16 January 2009

The UN Human Rights Council Forms a Fact-Finding Mission on the War on Gaza (the Goldstone Mission)

International Reactions to the Mavi Marmara Incident

31 May 2010 - 3 June 2010

International Response to Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

US Blocks UNSC Statement Condemning Sur Bahir Demolitions

US Peace Plan – Palestinian and International Reactions

28 January 2020 - 11 February 2020

UN Human Rights Council Establishes an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

27 May 2021 - 22 July 2021

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

22 July 2021 - 20 February 2023

Historical Texts

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

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

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

The Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Bevin's Statement on Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

13 November 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Haganah: Plan Gimmel (Plan C): Section on Countermeasures

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

UNSCOP Minority Proposal: Federal State Plan

3 September 1947

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

3 September 1947

UNSCOP Recommendations Approved Unanimously or by Substantial Majority

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UN Palestine Commission Report on Security in Palestine

16 February 1948

UNSC Resolution 61

4 November 1948

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

UNGA Resolution 273 (III)

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)

30 November 1970

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)

10 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

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

30 November 1977

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

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

13 December 1988

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

The Knesset Law Concerning the Implementation of the Agreement on Gaza and Jericho Areas (Restrictions of Activity) 1994

26 December 1994

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

South African Communiqué on Palestinian-Israeli Meeting

11 January 2002

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2003/891

16 September 2003

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution 58/292

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

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

25 September 2009

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

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

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

12 January 2021

ICC Decision on its Jurisdiction in Palestine

5 February 2021

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

Highlights

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

The Algerians of Palestine

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Brazil and the Palestine Question

Competing Solidarities, Fluctuating Policies

Places

al-Batani al-Sharqi

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

al-Ras al-Ahmar

al-Shawka al-Tahta

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'

al-Zuq al-Fawqani

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

'Arab al-Nufay'at

'Arab al-Shamalina

'Arab al-Zubayd

Balad al-Shaykh

Bayt Umm al-Mays

Dayr Abu Salama

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ijlil al-Shamaliyya

'Iraq al-Manshiyya

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Buwayra

Khirbat al-Jawfa

Khirbat al-Kasayir

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat al-Shuna

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khirbat al-Taqa

Khirbat Ism Allah

Khirbat Karraza

Khiyam al-Walid

Kirad al-Baqqara

Kirad al-Ghannama

Mansurat al-Khayt

Sarafand al-Kharab

Sarafand al-'Amar

Wadi al-Hawarith

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta