Essays on Palestine
We write so the story is not erased.
From Land Day to the Al-Aqsa Flood, from the lives of prisoners to friends of the revolution: articles that document what others want forgotten, and open files that do not expire.
On 31 March 1948 the Zionist Stern Gang mined the Cairo–Haifa railway near the settlement of Binyamina, south of Haifa, and blew up the expr...
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In late 1938, the British Mandate authorities arrested the journalist Sadhij Nassar of Haifa, making her the first Palestinian woman detaine...
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More than 20,000 students killed, more than a thousand teachers and academics dead, and around 98% of school buildings damaged. Gaza's loss...
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Hind Rajab: Three Hours Waiting for PermissionHind Rajab (2018 – 2024). Photo: courtesy of Ghada Ageel, via Al Jazeera.Her name was Hind Raj...
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Did Palestinians Sell Their Land? The Truth in Numbers and DocumentsFor decades, one sentence has been repeated so often that it sounds simp...
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When we see a house in Gaza after it has been bombed, we usually see the end of the process: a collapsed building, ambulances, the wounded,...
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On November 29, 2012, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 67/19, granting Palestine the status of a “non-member observer...
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On May 17, 1939, the British government issued a new policy document on Palestine known as the “White Paper of 1939” or the “MacDonald White...
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Palestine’s Place Names: Memory, Maps, and the Politics of RenamingPalestine’s Place Names: Memory, Maps, and the Politics of RenamingHow do...
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Battles of the revolution
In the autumn of 2000, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque once again moved to the center of the Palestinian confrontation with the Israeli occupat...
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UN Resolution 194 and the Palestinian Right of Return: The Promise Still UnfulfilledOn December 11, 1948, after months of mass Palestinian d...
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On September 17, 1948, Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations Mediator for Palestine, was assassinated in Jerusalem by members of the Zi...
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France was not removed from the early European ideas that linked Jews and Palestine within broader political and strategic projects. By the...
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Events and dates
Izz al-Din al-Qassam was one of the most influential figures of armed anti-colonial resistance in Mandatory Palestine. Through preaching, ed...
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Yahya Sinwar (1962–2024) was a Palestinian leader from Khan Younis refugee camp, from a family driven out of al-Majdal (Asqalan) in the Nakb...
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The Starving of Gaza: The Zionist occupation has been committing crimes of genocide against the Palestinian people since October 7, 2023 in...
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“You are criminals. History will record that you lost Palestine.”(Abdel Qader al-Husseini to the Arab League Military Committee in Damascus,...
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The Nakba: Palestine’s Enduring WoundThe Nakba—Arabic for “the Catastrophe”—is the Palestinian name for the mass displacement, uprooting, di...
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