interactive encyclopedia of the palestine question – palquest | search

Sections

About

Use quotation marks “…” to search for an exact phrase.

Events

Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine

April 1834 - August 1834

Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism

Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Young Turk Revolution

Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul

2 September 1908 - April 1909

Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

The Arab Congress Meets in Paris

17 June 1913 - 24 June 1913

Formation of the Covenant Society in Istanbul

28 October 1913

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Establishment of the Zionist Revisionist Movement

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

Arab Youth Congress Meets in Jaffa

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

Establishment of the National Bloc Party

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

Saudi Arabia Opens a Consulate-General in Jerusalem

5 April 1941 - 29 April 1941

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 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

Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem

11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)

24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949

Israel Decides to Issue Temporary Residency Permits for Palestinians Not Included in the Census

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

1 January 1951 - 30 November 1952

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

Bloody Israeli Attack on the Gaza Strip

28 February 1955

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

4 October 1956 - 11 October 1956

Fatah Is Founded

Palestinians in Israel Demonstrate

21 September 1961

Military Training for Palestinians

11 October 1965

The Knesset Paves the Way for the Annexation of East Jerusalem

27 June 1967 - 28 June 1967

The Knesset Amends the Municipal Corporations Ordinance to Extend Area of West Jerusalem Municipality

27 June 1967 - 29 June 1967

Assassination of Palestinian Leaders Kamal Nasser, Kamal Adwan, and Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar in Beirut

Foreign Embassies Leave Jerusalem

20 August 1980 - September 1980

Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

6 June 1982 - 29 September 1982

Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo

16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Attempts to Form a Jordanian-Palestinian Delegation to Meet the US

1 March 1985 - 1 September 1985

Assassination of Caricaturist Naji al-Ali

22 July 1987 - 29 August 1987

Israeli Raid on Palestinian Base South of Beirut; Ahmad Jibril Is Targeted

9 December 1988

Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections

1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989

Dial 1-202-456-1414

US Letters of Assurances to Parties to Upcoming Peace Conference

15 October 1991 - 18 October 1991

President Clinton's Visit to Gaza

14 December 1998

Clinton's Letter of Assurance to Arafat as a "Compensation" for Not Declaring a State

Abu Ali Mustafa, PFLP Deputy Secretary-General Returns to Palestine

30 September 1999

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

Sharm al-Shaykh Summit

16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000

Israeli Idea of Security Fence (Separation Wall) Begins to Take Shape

26 December 2000 - 3 January 2001

14th Arab Summit Meets in Beirut and Adopts Saudi Peace Initiative

27 March 2002 - 28 March 2002

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

1 April 2002 - 10 May 2002

Israel Decides to Create Buffer Zones (Separation Wall)

14 April 2002 - 25 April 2002

Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Raids West Bank Towns and Shells Arafat's Headquarters

5 June 2002 - 17 June 2002

Israel Adopts Plan for Second Phase of Separation Wall

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

Operation Active Shield in Gaza; Assassination of Militants in Gaza and West Bank

27 June 2004 - 5 August 2004

Disengagement: Evacuation of Settlers

8 August 2005 - 22 August 2005

Disengagement: Israeli-Egyptian Protocol on Gaza-Egypt Border

1 September 2005 - 12 September 2005

Disengagement: Celebrations in Gaza

12 September 2005 - 24 September 2005

Operation Blue Skies and Continuing Escalation

22 December 2005 - 23 January 2006

Major Arrest Raid Against Hamas-Affiliated PA Officials

29 June 2006 - 19 August 2006

July War: Israel Attempts to Establish a Limited Foothold in Southern Lebanon

19 July 2006 - 29 July 2006

July War: Israel Attempts to Create a Special Security Zone

2 August 2006 - 10 August 2006

July War: Diplomatic Efforts for a Cease-Fire

5 August 2006 - 9 August 2006

July War: Israel Attempts a Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon

11 August 2006 - 14 August 2006

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Resume: Refugees and Territory Stumbling Blocks

24 March 2008 - 4 May 2008

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

War on Gaza, Day 2

28 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 4

30 December 2008

War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties

War on Gaza: Israel Announces a Unilateral Cease-Fire

17 January 2009

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Held in Sharm al-Shaykh and Jerusalem

14 September 2010 - 15 September 2010

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011

Impact of the Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Popular Politics

2 February 2011 - 15 March 2011

Trilateral Agreement for a Red Sea-Dead Sea Link

9 December 2013

A Lebanese Government Readiness to Facilitate Licensing of Palestinian Associations

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

Palestinians in the West Bank Boycott Israeli Dairy and Processed Food Products

9 February 2015 - 2 March 2015

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

A Day of Escalation in the West Bank

A Third Intifada or a Temporary Outburst?

2 October 2015 - 31 January 2016

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

France Plans to Resume its Peace Initiative

29 January 2016 - 16 February 2016

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

15 February 2017

As Israel Backtracks on Its Measures Concerning the Haram al-Sharif, Palestinian Pressure Continues and Succeeds

24 July 2017 - 4 August 2017

Trump Administration Defunds the UNRWA

16 January 2018 - 25 January 2018

Amendment by the Knesset of Its Code of Ethics to Allow Restricting Palestinian Members' Travel Abroad

22 January 2018 - 13 March 2018

Opening of the “Apartheid Road”

10 January 2019

Hanan Ashrawi Resigns from PLO Executive Committee

9 December 2020

The General Strike of the Unity Intifada

Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters

Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1859 - 21 July 1921

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

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

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

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

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

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

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

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

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

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

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

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

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

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

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

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

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

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Growth

1860 - 1948

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Fertility Rate

1962 - 2018

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (2)

2000

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (1)

2000 - 2010

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (1)

2015 - 2048

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (2)

2015 - 2048

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (3)

2015 - 2048

Historical Texts

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

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

Palin Commission Report

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

Shaw Commission Report

The Hope Simpson Report

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Charter of the Arab Youth Congress

The Murison Commission Report

National Bloc Party: Bylaws

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Grady-Morrison Plan

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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

8 November 1948

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

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

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

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

9 December 1969

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

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

17 September 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

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

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

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

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

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

7 February 1983

Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians

26 February 1988

UNGA Resolution 42/229

The Shultz Negotiations Plan

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

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

Press Conference Statement of Yasir Arafat Clarifying His Speech Before the UN General Assembly

14 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

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

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

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 the Palestinians

18 October 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

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

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241

President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement

23 December 2000

The Mitchell Report

Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

UNGA Resolution 58/292

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

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

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

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

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

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

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

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

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

28 February 2019

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

12 February 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

Historical Media

Young Turks Revolution

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing

Periods

III. Late Mandate

Highlights

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

III. Late Mandate

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

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

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh 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

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

I. Ottoman Rule

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

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 Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

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 New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

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 Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

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 Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

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

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression