Relocating the US embassy to Jerusalem is illegal, and is a reckless provocation
Kellyanne Conway, President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign manager, has
It's Christmas in Palestine
Every year, Palestinian Christians and other pilgrims converge on the city
The Second Intifada, Then and Now
Marking 16 years since the outbreak of the Second Intifada, we have made available articles from the Journal for Palestine Studies chr
"Making the Desert Bloom": A Myth Examined
Late Israeli President Shimon Peres was quoted back in 1970 as saying, "The country [Palestine] was mostly an empty desert, with only a few islands of Arab settlement; and Israel's cultivable land today was indeed redeemed from swamp and wilderness." This central theme of early Zionist colonization of Palestine was refuted in this 1979 Journal of Palestine Studies article by Alan George.
Sabra and Shatila: A Haunting Microcosm of Continuing Systemic Violence
For our September Special Focus, we are featuring a collection of articles on the massacre, Israeli tactical use of policy and law to inflict violence, and the broad implications of such experiences on Palestinian memory and present.
Four Hours in Shatila
From September 16 to September 18, 1982 between 1,000-3,500 Palestinians were massacred by Phalangist militias supported by Israeli troops. "What can we say to their families who left with Arafat, trusting in the promises of Reagan, Mitterrand and Perini, who had assured them that the civilian population of the camps would be safe? How can we explain that we allowed children, old people and women to be massacred, and that we are abandoning their bodies without prayers? How can we tell them that we don't know where they are buried?"
Zionist Settler Colonialism
To commemorate the United Nation’s “International Day of the World’s Indigenous People,” on August 9th, the Institute for Palestine Studies is making available seven articles from the Journal of Palestine Studies archives that highlight the history of Zionist settler colonialism upon the indigenous people of Palestine and the current methods used which continue this process into the present day.
Special Focus - Palestinian Bedouins
Prior to the founding of the State of Israel, the Bedouins’ claim to the Negev was hardly in question.
From the Small Zinzana to the Bigger Zinzana: Israeli Prisons, Palestinian Prisons
The Palestinian experience has been aptly characterized as carceralism, in both literal and metaphorical senses. It is arguable that ever since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the most consensual pillar of national Palestinian discourse has been the issue of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. After Hamas’s so-called takeover of Gaza in 2007, however, a new, intra- Palestinian carceralism emerged.
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