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Biographies

1880 - 16 June 1946

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Events

Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line

31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

Powerful Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordan

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

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

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Massacre in Deir Yasin

9 April 1948 - 11 April 1948

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

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

8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

A Massacre in al-Dawayima

29 October 1948

Kafr Qasim Massacre

29 October 1956

The 1956 War - The Tripartite Aggression

29 October 1956 - 12 March 1957

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

Japanese Red Army at Lod Airport

Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

6 June 1982 - 29 September 1982

Lebanon War Casualties

1 September 1982 - 11 October 1982

Sabra and Shatila Massacres

16 September 1982 - 18 September 1982

Israel Withdraws from Beirut and the Multinational Force Returns

23 September 1982 - 29 September 1982

Kahan Report on the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

7 February 1983 - 10 February 1983

Commemorating the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

17 September 1984

Closure of Bethlehem University

28 October 1987

Solidarity of Israel's Palestinians with the Intifada

21 December 1987

Multilevel Gaza-Jericho Negotiations

12 December 1993 - 23 February 1994

Hebron Massacre

25 February 1994 - 18 March 1994

SC Res. 904: Condemning the Massacre of Palestinian Worshippers in al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron

July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes

30 July 2006 - 2 August 2006

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3

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

5 October 2015 - 28 November 2015

Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron

1 December 2019

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 2

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

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

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

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

8 November 1948

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

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

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

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

7 February 1983

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

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

13 December 1988

UNSC Resolution 904

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

30 September 2015

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

1 November 2017

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

28 February 2019

Historical Media

British Soldiers Enforce a Daytime Curfew on Lydda

Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing

Highlights

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

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

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

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

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

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'

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 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

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

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

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

Balata Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Shatila 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

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

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

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Lebanon War, 1982

1982 - 1983

Periods

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival