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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

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

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

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

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

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

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

1923 - 12 May 2004

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1927 - 13 January 2005

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

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

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

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

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

Establishment of Petah Tikva, the First Zionist Colony in Palestine

Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe

Seven Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1880s

Emerging Palestinian Opposition to Zionist Settlement: al-Yahudiyya Village Against Petah Tikva Settlement

Publication of The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Local Control of Zionist Land Purchases in the Sanjaq of Jerusalem

1st Zionist Congress in Basel Calls for a Jewish Home in Palestine

29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897

2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898

Herzl Correspondence with Jerusalem Mayor

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

Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition

8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901

5th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

26 December 1901 - 30 December 1901

Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company

7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903

6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903

2nd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Theodor Herzl Dies; Replaced by David Wolffsohn

Palestinian-Zionist Tension at al-Shajara - Sejera in the Tiberias Region

August 1904 - September 1904

Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism

7th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

27 July 1905 - 2 August 1905

8th Zionist Congress Is Held in the Hague

14 July 1907 - 21 July 1907

Zionist Evasion of Ottoman Regulations

The Zionist Organization Opens an Office in Jaffa

Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley

March 1909 - July 1909

Foundation of Tel Aviv

Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives

June 1909 - 2 November 1909

9th Zionist Congress Is Held in Hamburg

26 December 1909 - 30 December 1909

Arab Ottoman Parliamentarians Address Minister of Interior

First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament

March 1911 - May 1911

10th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

9 August 1911 - 15 August 1911

Publication of Zionism by Najib Nassar

European Powers Renew Pressure on the Ottomans to Ease Zionist Land Acquisition in Palestine

A Zionist–Arab Incident in Zarnuqa

11th Zionist Congress Meets in Vienna

2 September 1913 - 9 September 1913

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission

Proclamations No. 75 and No. 76 on Immovable Property

18 November 1918

3rd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

The General Syrian Congress and the King-Crane Commission

2 July 1919 - 3 July 1919

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

Founding of the Haganah, the Jewish Paramilitary Organization

International Zionist Conference Meets in London

Palestine Civil Government and Appointment of Herbert Samuel as High Commisioner

Mahlul Land Ordinance

Transfer of Land Ordinance

Establishment of the Histadrut

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

May Day Clashes in Jaffa

1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921

The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London

2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922

Report of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry on Jaffa Disturbances

12th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

1 September 1921 - 14 September 1921

Transfer of Land Amendment Ordinance No. 2

8 December 1921

The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine

The Palestine Communist Party Is Officially Announced

13th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

6 August 1923 - 18 August 1923

4th Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Establishment of the Zionist Revisionist Movement

14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna

18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925

Correction of Land Registers Ordinance, No. 12

16 February 1926

15th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 August 1927 - 11 September 1927

Land Settlement Ordinance No. 9

Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall

23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928

5th Wave of Jewish Immigration

16th Zionist Congress Is Held in Zurich

28 July 1929 - 11 August 1929

al-Buraq / Western Wall: Palestinians Rise up in Protest against Zionist Provocations

15 August 1929 - 29 August 1929

Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

4th Palestinian Delegation to London

1 April 1930 - 23 May 1930

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

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Establishment of Irgun

17th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 June 1931 - 15 July 1931

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Arab Youth Congress Meets in Jaffa

Establishment of the Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Establishment of the Reform Party

19th Zionist Congress Meets in Lucerne

20 August 1935 - 4 September 1935

Nuremberg Laws and Jewish Immigration

15 September 1935

Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

Revival of the Legislative Council Idea

December 1935 - March 1936

First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937

British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police

May 1936 - September 1936

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

11 November 1936 - 24 January 1937

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

10 December 1936

Avner Defense Plan

Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

23 July 1937 - September 1938

Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York

August 1937 - May 1941

20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich

3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

21st Zionist Congress Meets in Geneva

16 August 1939 - 25 August 1939

Blowing up of SS Patria

Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York

6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942

Support in the United States for a Jewish Army

Arab National Fund Reestablished

British Recommend Partition

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

Alexandria Protocol and the League of Arab States

Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York

25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950

Pledge to Buy US Armament for the Haganah

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

The US Congress Endorses the Biltmore Program

17 December 1945 - 19 December 1945

Palestinians Declare Strike to Protest Bevin's Policy Statement of November 1945

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Publishes its Report after a Visit to Palestine

6 March 1946 - 20 April 1946

Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party

Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan

New Wave of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

9 September 1946 - 2 December 1946

Round Table Conference on Palestine Held in London

10 September 1946 - 3 October 1946

22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946

London Round Table Conference Reopens and Fails

27 January 1947 - 18 February 1947

Deadly Zionist Anti-British Attacks

28 February 1947 - 1 March 1947

Continuation of Zionist-British Confrontation

16 April 1947 - 26 April 1947

Casualties of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

Zionist Attacks Against Palestinians

21 May 1947 - 15 August 1947

Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition

15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947

Palestinians and Zionists on UNSCOP Partition Plan

29 September 1947 - 3 October 1947

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

The Haganah Implements Plan Gimmel

1 December 1947

Palestinian Strike Against Partition Plan and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 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

Zionist Attacks

15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948

Plan Dalet Finalized by the Haganah

Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive

10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition

18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948

Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas

19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948

Plan Dalet Launched

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

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Unit of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Attacks Kfar Darom

Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May

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

Arab Gains in Gush Etzion

3 May 1948 - 14 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

Arab States Explain Reasons for Intervening in Palestine

The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes 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

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

The Zionist Organization/Jewish Agency Status Law

24 November 1952

Covenant between Zionist Organization and Israel

24th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

24 April 1956 - 7 May 1956

Lebanon Establishes a Higher Commission for Palestine Affairs

25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961

26th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

30 December 1964 - 10 January 1965

27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968

Fatah Defines its Political Objective

19 October 1968

5th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 February 1969 - 4 February 1969

6th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 September 1969 - 9 September 1969

Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972

UNGA 3379 (XXX): Determining that Zionism is a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination

10 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum on Israeli Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel

1 March 1976 - April 1976

13th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

29th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

20 February 1978 - 1 March 1978

14th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

10th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

11th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

30th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1982 - 16 December 1982

16th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987

4th Visit of US Secretary of State Shultz to the Region

3 June 1988 - 7 June 1988

Rishon LeZion (Uyun Qara) Killings

UNGA 46/86: Revoking UNGA 3379 (XXX) that Had Determined Zionism as a Form of Racism

16 December 1991

32nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 July 1992 - 30 July 1992

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution

33rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

23 December 1997 - 26 December 1997

UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban

31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

34th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

17 June 2002 - 20 June 2002

Assassination Attempt of Hamas Leadership, Including Ahmad Yasin, in Gaza City

6 September 2003

Annual Zionist General Council (WZO) Meets in Jerusalem

Olmert's Separation Plan

5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006

35th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

19 June 2006 - 22 June 2006

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

36th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

15 June 2010 - 17 June 2010

The Knesset passes the Law on Disclosure Requirements for Recipients of Support from a Foreign State Entity

Israel Approves Settlement Expansion

2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011

Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion

12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 3

16 November 2012

Surge in Settlement Expansion

30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013

Israel Uses the Palestinian Cabinet Formation as a Pretext to Launch a New Wave of Settlement Plans

Tension Mounts with the Kidnapping of Three Israeli Settlers in the Hebron Region

12 June 2014 - 30 June 2014

Arab Parties in Israel Form a Joint List For the Knesset Elections

22 January 2015

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

17 March 2015 - 19 March 2015

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

Hamas New Charter

Israeli Settlement Construction Continues Unbated in Third Year of Trump Administration

31 December 2019

Jewish National Fund Adopts New Policy to Purchase and Claim Lands in the West Bank

25 February 2021 - 2 September 2021

Historical Texts

Basel (Zionist) Program

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

Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

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

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

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Charter of the Arab Youth Congress

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

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

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

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

Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National (watani) Charter

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

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

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

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

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

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

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

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution

29 October 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)

10 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

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

30 November 1977

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

8 December 1977

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

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

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

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

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

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

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

1 November 2017

The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada

Historical Media

Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

Pan-Islamic Congress, 1931

16 December 1931

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

Aftermath Outside of the New Gate

13 October 1933

Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate

Illegal Immigration (I)

Illegal Immigration (II)

Arms Dumps in the Colonies

2 September 1946

Zionist Terrorism

29 December 1947

Battle for the Roads

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities

1944 - 1947

Thematic Chronology

Regulating Palestinian Land

1858 - present

Thematic Chronology

World Zionist Organization Congresses

1897 - present

Thematic Chronology

Military Operations and Zionist Ethnic Cleansing

1946 - 1949

Periods

III. Late Mandate

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

I. Ottoman Rule

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

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

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

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

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

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

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

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

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

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

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The Israeli Military

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

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

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 Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

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

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

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

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station