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We have compiled and made accessible a reading list of 15 articles from the Journal of Palestine Studies providing historical context and analysis on nearly two decades of Israeli incursions, siege, and blockade on Gaza. Read 🧶⬇️: tandfonline.com/journals/rpa…
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Gaza has entered 2024 under the reign of bombs not fireworks. Large gatherings aren’t for celebration — it’s displacement or mass graves.
In this non-exhaustive list researched and compiled by @ntnncy with contributions, are Israeli war crimes that must be brought to justice. ⬇️
ALT No Justice, No Peace: A List of 10 Israeli War Crimes Since Oct. 7
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Professor Rashid Khalidi has withdrawn his fall course at Columbia in protest of the university’s deal with the Trump administration and adoption of the IHRA definition. He calls it a surrender of academic freedom and complicity in genocide.
His open letter in the @guardian:
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Israel has destroyed, bombed, and burned nearly every hospital in Gaza. Mass graves have been found inside medical complexes. Patients, staff, and children were executed or buried alive. Mohammad al-Naami reports from the ground.
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We translated and are republishing this text written by Shireen Abu Akleh in 2016 for Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyyah to commemorate her work. She discussed the role of media coverage in Palestinian uprisings, and Israeli attacks on the news media.
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“We are being annihilated and killed, I speak to you from Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital. Crews are unable to locate sites of constant airstrikes. The situation is devastating! Uplift our voice perhaps this is the last message.
Journalist Ahmad al-Batta.”
نحن نُباد ونقتل ،، أحدثكم من مشفى شهداء الأقصى ،، الطواقم عاجزة عن معرفة أماكن الاستهدافات المتواصلة .. الحال حزين !! أوصلوا صوتنا فلربما تكون آخر الرسائل
الصحفي أحمد البطة
#طوفان_الأقصى
#غزة_تحت_القصف
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"During more than 85 days of mass-scale Israeli assaults throughout Gaza, the West Bank, & ‘48 territories, the Israeli Occupation Forces, with certainty, have committed tens of thousands of war crimes and have broken numerous international laws."
Read: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
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The Institute for Palestine Studies mourns the death of Elias Khoury, the editor of Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya (the Arabic Journal of Palestine Studies), writer, and novelist, who passed away on Sunday morning, September 15, in Beirut, after a struggle with illness.
Khoury had a rich intellectual, cultural, and literary life, moving between journalism, writing, and teaching. He wrote dozens of novels translated into many languages and gained international acclaim. His works won prestigious awards, establishing his international reputation in literature.
Khoury edited several newspapers, magazines, and periodicals, most notably his roles at the newspaper “As-Safir” and the cultural supplement of the Lebanese newspaper “An-Nahar.” These platforms became cultural and intellectual hubs that attracted writers and intellectuals from across the Arab world.
Elias Khoury was also passionate about theatre. He wrote theatre criticism, followed Arab and foreign theatre work, and managed the “Beirut Theatre,” which hosted significant theatrical productions during his tenure. He supported and developed emerging theatrical talents, integrating theatre into the city's vibrant cultural fabric.
Khoury has taught at several prominent Western universities, including Georgetown University, New York University, Berkeley University, Columbia University, and the American University of Beirut, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in recognition of his academic and literary achievements.
Elias Khoury was a staunch advocate for Palestine, contributing to the struggle nationally and intellectually. He wrote numerous articles and studies emphasizing the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli Occupation and confront colonialism.
As the Editor-in-Chief of Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya, he maintained the journal as a free platform, attracting Palestinian, Arab, and Western writers who support Palestinian rights. His editorials and articles in the journal were distinguished literary, political, and intellectual references, complementing his contributions to the Arab press.
Khoury paid exceptional attention to the plight of prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons, devoting pages of the journal to this crucial cause. Despite his illness and prolonged hospital stay, he continued to supervise the journal's work with his colleagues on the editorial board, ensuring its regular publication, especially during the genocide in the Gaza Strip.
With the passing of Elias Khoury, he leaves behind a great literary, intellectual, and cultural legacy that future generations will turn to in order to understand the meanings of loyalty, commitment, and Palestine. The Institute for Palestine Studies will publish special dossiers about Khoury and his work in our journals and various platforms.
May God have mercy on him. We extend our sincerest condolences to his wife Najla, daughter Abla, son Talal, grandson Yamen, and siblings.
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Resources, articles, & books from the Institute are cited & recommended in this incredible new resource: @DecolonizePS. Easy-to-browse for anyone looking to learn about Palestine. Created by @AManInTheSun & @RiverToSea48
decolonizepalestine.com/
See thread for cited links 🧵
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Israel destroyed Gaza’s printing presses, publishing houses, and bookstores. These were homes to memory, knowledge, and cultural continuity. Ink and manuscripts turned to ash. Presses were silenced mid-sentence.
Report by Fatma Al Zahraa Sehwail:
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Alaa went to get flour for his family. He came back wrapped in empty flour bags—shot dead by Israeli forces. In this heartbreaking essay, his sister Areej Almashharawi writes about famine, survival, and the cruelty of engineered hunger in Gaza.
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Despite the risks, Palestinian journalists covering Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza are the epitome of the journalistic mission to report the truth. In this sense, journalism has long been a crucial part of Palestinian life in denouncing Zionist strategies and practices. 🧵
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🔴 Day-by-day summaries of Genocide in Gaza:
The #PalestineChronology staff has been documenting Israeli crimes and compiling entries since October 7, based on initial reporting. Follow this thread for daily updates! 🧵
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“When a student falls unconscious, we just assume they have not eaten for two days. And we move on.”
Eman Basher @SometimesPooh spoke to Dr. @izzeddinshaheen, who works while starving, stitching wounds that won’t heal for lack of protein.
Read More: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
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Facebook, IG, & WhatsApp are still down. Jokes aside, these platforms have served as primary sources for evidence of Israeli violence real-time. Palestinians livestreamed raids & communicated with grassroots everywhere. Going on 4 hours offline, what could this mean?
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Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of Edward Said's death. Among his many contributions to scholarship on Palestine was his seminal 1984 article in the Journal of Palestine Studies, "Permission to Narrate." Read it here free for a limited time: jps.ucpress.edu/content/13/3…
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42 years since the Sabra and Shatila Massacres.
Between 16–18 September 1982, Israeli troops encircled the region and sent in Lebanese Phalangist forces, who massacred at least 3,000 Palestinians, Lebanese and other Arab residents. More on #PalQuest:
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.@m7mdkurd LIVE!
“My grandmother had dementia, she could not remember me, but she remembered what the Zionist militia did to her in 1948 and that is an indication of the ongoing-ness of the Nakba, it still haunts you.”
Tune in: palestine-studies.org/livest…
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.@GhassanAbuSitt1 speaks from Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza, via video filmed yesterday: “The siege led to a severe shortage in medical supplies... The wounded, like all Gaza wars, 30 to 40% are children... It’s only day 4 (Oct. 10)… the situation will only get worse.”
Listen📹⬇️
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In Gaza, the press vest no longer shields you from hunger or bullets. Journalists collapse, barter equipment for food, and cover massacres while starving. Nour Abu Rokba reports from the frontlines of genocide and famine.
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Palestinian intellectual Edward Said is recognized as one of the world's leading cultural critics.
As we observe the 20th anniversary of his passing, read Said's biography on #PalQuest
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“This is now a strange scene; to be at a funeral & see a shroud, inside which is a whole body with two hands, ten fingers, two feet, & a head. Nowadays, we are lucky to even have a funeral, to bury an intact body,” writes Mariam from Gaza @WeAreNotNumbers
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Eleven years ago, Israeli settlers kidnapped 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir from Shu'fat , burned him alive, and left his body in the Jerusalem Forest. During the day, there were many protests and clashes in Jerusalem, especially in Shu'fat, leaving 170 Palestinians wounded: palquest.org/en/overallchron… 🧵
ALT Photo: Protest over the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, Ar'ara, Israel, 5 July 2014. Yotam Ronen/ActiveStills.
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Are U.S. Newspapers Biased Against Palestinians? Analysis of A Hundred Thousand Headlines Says Yes: based on a sentiment analysis of headlines spanning 50 years in 5 newspapers dating back to '67: bit.ly/2C7TJeK
@nytimes @washingtonpost @WJS @chicagotribune @LATimes
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📣Join us on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 12pm ET/7pm Palestine with @FranceskAlbs, @luigidaniele10, & @PeruginiNic to discuss how Israel appropriates International Humanitarian Law to mask atrocities in Gaza. The event will be live-streamed. Register: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
ALT Logo of Institute for Palestine Studies Zoom Live, icons of X, Facebook, and Instagram Humanitarian Camouflage: Israel Rewrites The Laws of War to Legitimize the Gaza Genocide At 12pm ET / 7PM Palestine Thursday, September 26, 2024 Dr. Luigi Daniele Senior Lecturer in International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law Francesca Albanese Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the oPt Nicola Perugini Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations Malika Irshad Moderator A Current Issues in Depth installment published by the Institute for Palestine Studies on the same topic by the speakers is forthcoming.
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We’re thrilled to launch a new online database documenting political & military events surrounding the Israeli Occupation of Palestine since 1982.
Day-by-day summaries are accessible in a digitized format updated monthly. Browse The #PalestineChronology: chronology.palestine-studies…
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We are pleased to announce a recent transition in our flagship journal’s editorial team! We honor the editorship of Dr. Rashid Khalidi and welcome Dr. @ShereneSeikaly as Editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. She is the first woman to hold this position.
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Gaza’s horses once offered joy, healing, and dignity to children—including those with disabilities. Today they starve, suffer untreated wounds, or are buried under rubble. Their fate mirrors that of their people: erased, silenced, and left to die unseen.
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In Gaza, even language is weaponized. Israeli soldiers leave behind graffiti that degrades, mocks, and haunts. Donya Abu Sitta reflects on how words, like bombs, can wound and occupy the ruins of homes and minds.
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HAPPENING MONDAY!
@RashidaTlaib, Rashid Khalidi (@PalStudies), @m7mdkurd, Lubnah Shomali (@BADIL_Center), @UmarGhubari (@Zochrot) to shed light on what transpired in 1948 & why the events of the Nakba remain central to understanding Israel and Palestine.
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We have invited a group of authors & poets to recite "On this Land" by Mahmoud Darwish. A selection of articles by him and about his work that have appeared in the Journal of #Palestine Studies and Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya can be found here: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
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Celebrate Palestinian women today and everyday. #InternationalWomensDay
Poster - General Union of Palestinian woman, 1981. Art by Abdel Rahman Al Muzain. Poster credit: @PalestinePoster (Liberation Graphics Collection)
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.@YousefAljamal memorializes the legacy of Refaat Alareer, Gaza's storyteller, for the Journal of Palestine Studies.
“It was Refaat’s mission to uplift the voices of Palestinians in Gaza, because for him, 'Palestine is a story away, a stone away.'”
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ALT A picture of Refaat Alareer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in March 2014 taken by Yousef Aljamal.
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“As scholars, we confront the uncomfortable reality that Western academic institutions cannot truly be decolonized. What do we do, then? I propose clandestine publishing as a form of intellectual resistance,” writes Aziz Yafi* for our blog 👇🏼
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What does U.S. press coverage look like in a time of genocide? Our writers contextualize reported events and expose journalistic (mal)practices & how biases, no matter how subtle, manipulate readers' perceptions and understanding of the situation in Gaza.
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Database Launch with Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Dr. Layth Hanbali, and Jehad Abusalim nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1lDGLlqDR…
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A coalition of Georgetown Students have blocked funding ($30,000) for an itrek trip to Israel, in line with BDS principles of academic boycott. Read their victory statement published on our website here:
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.@mhayoun breaks down how Israel dispossessed his family and other Jewish #Arab families from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and others. He also addresses attempts by Zionists to weaponize the identity of #Jewish Arabs against Palestinians.
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Dr. @GhassanAbuSitt1 filmed this early morning of Oct. 27 in Gaza. Hours later reports of a complete communications blackout have come out; internet service in Gaza has been cut off completely by Israeli bombardment.
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We have made public documents from the secret appendix to the report of the Commission of Inquiry, headed by former Israeli Supreme Court president Yitzhak Kahan, which was created to investigate the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. [All downloadable]
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This International #WomensDay, we honor the legacy of the women’s movement in Palestine, which responded to calls by the national movement confronting British and Zionist colonization and occupation (thread) ⤵️
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Quadcopters bomb grazing donkeys. Soldiers shoot them for sport. Others are stolen and sent abroad. Israel calls this “rescue.” In Gaza, it’s the destruction of the last threads of mobility. Report by Mohammad al-Naami.
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One year since Israel killed Refaat Alareer in Gaza. The poet & professor moved millions with his writing and defiance of the Israeli occupation. @YousefAljamal honors his memory in the Journal of Palestine Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.202…
ALT Gaza’s storyteller, connected many in Gaza to the world beyond siege. In return, the world of these young people changed forever on December 6, 2023, when Israel assassinated Refaat. Yousef M. Aljamal for the Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 53 no. 2 Refaat Alareer (1979-2023)
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📚Fresh off the press! The latest issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies is out. Read about Palestinians’ assertion of belonging through conversations, archives, law, and narrative. 🧵⤵. Access the full issue: tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5…
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Jehad Abusalim (@JehadAbusalim) as the executive director of the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA in Washington, DC. Welcome Jehad!
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Palestinian #writers, we can offer our blog platform as a home for your reflections, stories, or analysis on what has happened the past few weeks, especially re-attacks on Jenin, Massafer Yatta, and the killing of Shireen. Please DM for details. We pay for published pieces.
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Remembering 30 years of the Hebron Massacre.
On this day, terrorist Baruch Goldstein killed 29 Palestinian worshipers at the Cave of the Patriarchs (al-Ibrahimi Mosque). The Israeli settler was later bludgeoned to death by survivors. 🧵
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These are testimonies from people who have been displaced from various areas in Gaza. Muhammad apologizes to his son, Wisam receives news of his mother's martyrdom over the phone, and Bahaa speaks of mass graves. Read from our 'Letters from Gaza' series:
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Attacks on al-Aqsa are part of systemic violence exercised by a brutal occupation. Israeli Occupation Forces assault, detain, & murder Palestinians on a daily basis. In 🧵is a chronology of attacks on al-Aqsa mosque over the past three decades.
Explore: chronology.palestine-studies…
ALT A Chronology of Israeli attacks on al-Aqsa Mosque the Palestine chronology
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In our latest issue of Current Issues in Depth, @luigidaniele10, @PeruginiNic, and @FranceskAlbs interrogate Israel's appropriation of International Humanitarian Law to justify the genocide in Gaza by framing Gaza's Palestinian population as “terrorist.”
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ALT Current Issues in Depth 2024 | Issue No. 12 Institute for Palestine Studies Humanitarian Camouflage Israel Rewrites the laws of war to legitimize genocide in Gaza Luigi Daniele, Nicola Perugini, Francesca Albanese
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41 years since the #SabraAndShatila Massacres.
Between 16–18 September 1982, Israeli troops encircled the region and sent in Lebanese Phalangist forces, who massacred at least 3,000 Palestinians, Lebanese and other Arab residents.
More on #PalQuest
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Plainclothes officers in Zurich violently detained Palestinian journalist @AliAbunimah on Jan. 25. Authorities plan to deport him this week, raising concerns among human rights groups about freedom of expression in Europe. @flstniya reports
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Recognize what lands Israeli settlements have been built on and call them by their *real names.* In the table published here, a list of some of the settlements that surround Gaza and the corresponding stolen Palestinian lands that they have been built on.
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📣We have launched a new platform, supervised by Dr. @GhassanAbuSitt1, documenting the targeting and destruction of the health sector in Gaza. This bilingual database offers resources, records, analysis, and testimonies from medical workers on the ground.
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"Death from hunger is the most humiliating form of death. It does not come suddenly like a missile, but slowly and cruelly, until life fades quietly...hunger seems to be its ugliest and most degrading weapon."
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Israeli forces forced Palestinian detainees to strip, kneel on freezing floors, branded them, starved them, and unleashed dogs on them. Nurse Lana Abugharbieh heard it all firsthand—and treated their broken bodies in Gaza. Read her testimony:
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🧵Today, as the world witnesses Israel's genocide in Gaza, we mark 77 years since Zionist forces committed the Deir Yasin massacre.
The military and political developments that preceded and followed it made it a turning point in the 1948 Nakba and a symbol for Zionist plans to uproot and forcibly evict Palestinians from their towns and villages:
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107 years ago, Palestine was promised away in the form of a short letter dated 2 November 1917 from Lord Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, to Lord Lionel Walter de Rothschild, head of Britain's Jewish community.🧵
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📚Out now: Journal of Palestine Studies’ (JPS) last issue of 2024, featuring powerful research, reflections, and voices on the the genocide in Gaza, the expanding war against Palestinians across their homeland, and its implications in Palestine and beyond. Read research articles, essays, testimonies, and reviews (THREAD) ⤵️ tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5…
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Congratulations to the co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies for her appointment! @shereneseikaly 🎉
Dr. Sherene Seikaly has been appointed as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB. Seikaly is Associate Professor of History and the author of "Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine" (Stanford, 2016).
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For #Nakba75, we share stories in English, Arabic, & Spanish from 5 writers who attended our 'How to write your Nakba story?' workshop.
@Samah_fadil @KarakMufti @zaiin_as Marah Abdel Jaber & Odette Yidi, led by @Lau_Bast, bring ancestral memories to life.
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. @nouraborokba, who wrote this report, is now Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza City after Anas Al-Sharif was assassinated. May she be safe, and may her voice reach the world!
In Gaza, the press vest no longer shields you from hunger or bullets. Journalists collapse, barter equipment for food, and cover massacres while starving. Nour Abu Rokba reports from the frontlines of genocide and famine.
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Israel has turned Gaza’s aid lines into death traps. Families come with hope for flour or beans. They leave blinded, paralyzed, or dead. Since May, Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 people while they waited for food. Report by Sumaya Mohammed.
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Areej Sabbagh-Khoury reviews Adel Manna’s book, which recounts the stories of Palestinians from Haifa and the northern Galilee amid the traumatic rupture, mass displacement, and dispossession of the 1948 Nakba: doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.202… @areejsabbagh26
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📚The latest issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies is out! Read pieces on systems of settler-colonial control, international policies, and a meaningful reflection on "revolutionary grief" from Devin Atallah and Hisham Awartani ⬇️🧵 tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5…
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This is al-Jura, al-Khisas, Ni'ilya, and al-Majdal in the Gaza perimeter. They were depopulated & ethnically cleansed in 1948 by Zionist militia. 26 Palestinians in Gaza who were killed by recent Israeli airstrikes appear to have been descendants of the village of al-Majdal.
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Also today, Israel insinuated plans to bomb AlShifa hospital falsely claiming that H**@* headquarters are beneath it—doctors at AlShifa hospital gave a press conference before the blackout, countering Israeli claims and urging the international community to protect the hospital.
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The soundtrack of "Mo" (@realmoamer, Netflix) was intentionally curated to showcase the talent of artists in Palestine & in exile. @DanielGHajjar introduces us to to the selections and their significance from @ClarissaBitar, @47soulofficial to @Elyanna.
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Ten years ago today, Israeli settlers kidnapped 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir from Shu'fat, burned him alive, and left his body in the Jerusalem Forest. During the day, there were many protests and clashes in Jerusalem: palquest.org/en/overallchron… 🧵
ALT Photo: Protest over the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, Ar'ara, Israel, 7 July 2014. Yotam Ronen/ActiveStills.
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Resistance against resettlement schemes has historic roots in Gaza.
In Gaza, Palestinians have refused any plans involving resettling in Egypt, an idea that is echoed by chants of "Heaven is closer to us than the Sinai." 🧵
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The press summaries on the War on Gaza from December 8-13 are available here: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
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In conversation with @laythco, Dr. @yipengGe exposes Israel’s “choreography of destruction,” a calculated campaign that besieges and empties Gaza’s hospitals, turns them to rubble, and targets the doctors who keep them alive.
🔗 Read here: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
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Jaffa Road from Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem (1930s) is an image from collection of Khalil Raad, Palestine's first Arab photographer. In the 1890s, Raad opened a photography studio on Jaffa Road, which continues to be a bustling central street in Palestine's capital.
ALT Jaffa Road from Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem (1930s) is an image from collection of Khalil Raad, Palestine's first Arab photographer. In the 1890s, Raad opened a photography studio on Jaffa Road, which continues to be a bustling central street in Palestine's capital. His work was devoted to the coverage of political events, daily life in Palestine, and major archeological excavations. Jaffa Gate, from which this image is captured, is one of seven gates into the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the gate through which General Allenby entered on foot in 1917 and delivered his proclamation that the city was formally under martial law, thus beginning the British rule in Palestine. More images from Khalil Raad's archive collection are exhibited in our gallery in Beirut through September 30 as part of the Beirut Image Festival.
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The updated entries from December 14-19 are avaiblabe here: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
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We are proud to launch 'The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question' with @palmuseum!
The fully bilingual platform is entirely devoted to the history of modern Palestine, from the end of the Ottoman era to the present. Start navigating: palquest.org
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"Censorship of all things Palestine has been the norm for generations, but Palestinians will not allow for our language, art, or fight for humanity to be deemed a threat by the very people who seek to eradicate us," writes Asma Barakat. @PalestineWrites
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🚨 Join us tomorrow for a conversation with @Hind_Gaza, @amiramakkik, and @yipengGe on the destruction of healthcare, famine, forced displacement, and international complicity in Gaza.
Monday, July 7 at 11 AM EST | 6 PM Jerusalem
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📢 Coming up: a timely Space on Gaza:
Gaza Must Remain the Headline: Starvation, Strikes, & Testimonies
🗓️ Monday, July 7 at 11 AM EST | 6 PM Jerusalem
Featuring voices from Gaza and beyond.
Speakers will be announced soon. Mark your calendars.
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After the events of October 7, Hamas informed its intent to negotiate a prisoner exchange with Israel — Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. This brings to light Israel's practice of administrative detention, jailing Palestinians without charge or trial.🧵
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.@RandaAFattah's essay on the weaponization of rape atrocity propaganda by Israel and the New York Times (which still refuses to retract its debunked story), and interrogating the racism and Orientalism of mainstream feminism was the most read article of 2024! palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
ALT A Critical Look at the New York times' Weaponization of Rape in Service of Israeli Propaganda. by Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Reaffirming their continued dispossession & displacement from their land, Palestinians mark another Nakba day & take to the streets to protest the Israeli occupation.
A May 15 chronology of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians documented by the Journal of Palestine Studies:
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Since October 2023, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have evoked the horror of the 1982 Israeli invasion and siege of Beirut, as well as the 2006 War which killed an estimated 1,200 Lebanese civilians (a third of them children). 🧵
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.@RazanShawamreh debunks China’s claim of impartiality in its foreign policy toward Palestine and Israel since 1989, highlighting its investments in Israeli settlements and uncritical support for Arab normalization with Israel and other key foreign policy approaches. doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.202…
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Dr. Ali Elaydi is a Dallas-based surgeon from Gaza. He embarked on a medical mission in April, treating dozens of gunshot & blast injuries caused by Israeli Forces. In June, he returned on another mission & was denied entry for his 'Palestinian roots.'
We spoke to Dr. Elaydi:🧵⬇️
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In 2006, Israel bombed the Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut. This strategy would later be publicly articulated as the Dahiya doctrine, a policy deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure to induce such suffering that it creates deterrence: doi.org/10.1525/jps.2014.44.…
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“Israeli tanks approached, and drones showered the street with live bullets. I held little Haneen and Abdullah by their hands, running from an absolute death. I closed my eyes and walked over dead bodies. Horror. Horror,” writes Shahad Ali from #Gaza.
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In this 3-part series, stories about the work, life, and legacy of Shireen Abu Akleh are told to us by some of the women who were closest to her: @LinaAbuAkleh, @nnajjab, & @RZabaneh. In family, friendship, and profession, her loss is insermountable.
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"The [debates around Tantura] are reflective of the wider settler colonial power relations that determine who remembers, how they remember, and according to whose archives," writes @HashemAbuShama
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"[Amnesty] seems more preoccupied with addressing political accusations than discussing the contents of the report," write @soheirasaad & @Rania_Muhareb in this in-depth analysis of the organization's messaging around its Apartheid report.
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All Journal of Palestine Studies articles referenced in @DecolonizePS have been made available to download for free. See thread under above tweet.
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Rashid Khalidi for the @guardian: "[This] is a recent product of the irruption of imperialism in the Middle East and of the rise of modern nation-state nationalisms; it is a product of the violent European settler-colonial methods employed by Zionism."
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Merry Christmas from the family of the Institute for Palestine Studies!
Photo: Christmas Day in Bethlehem (1910) #Palestine
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Even after the Edward Said Conservatory in Gaza was destroyed, music still plays in displacement camps, on rubble, and in shelters. This report tells the story of children who lost limbs but not hope—and of music as resistance, memory, and survival.
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“We’ve cried too much and there are no tears left. I yearn for our voices to echo across the globe with the truth, reaching out to those who seek it,” says Marwa Abu Hatab a resident of the Beach Camp in Gaza.
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The First Palestine Arab Women's Congress was held 95 years ago in Jerusalem. Indicating the impact and political organization of women, the Congress established a 14-member Executive Committee and recommended the establishment of women societies in Palestinian cities. 🧵
ALT Photo: Arab Women Congress Delegation to the High Commissioner. Jerusalem, 1929. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection.)
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From June 16 to 30, Israeli forces killed over 800 Palestinians in Gaza, many during bombings of homes, hospitals, and aid sites in Khan Yunis, Rafah, Nuseirat, and Gaza City. Dozens more were shot while seeking aid. Here are the summaries between June 16 and 30, 2025, from the #PalestineChronology 🧵
ALT Photo: (add first page template) Photo: Displaced Palestinians carry relief packages along Rashid Street, west of Jabalia, 22 June 2025. Photo by Omar Ashtawy\ apaimages.
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"The concern is not that Israeli police might teach otherwise friendly London Bobbies their cruel methods of violence & oppression, but that two forms of colonial policing, with similar origins, might reinforce & embolden one another," writes @akramquds.
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Starvation is rapidly worsening in Gaza - Israeli ministers openly revere it as a moral necessity.
Reflecting on the Irish famine (An Gorta Mór) of 1845-1852, @brendancbrowne examines the use of starvation as a colonial tactic: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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ALT Memorial at Lough Thoir on Arranmore, commemorating the connection with Arranmore and Beaver Island. Many of the island community left Ireland during An Gorta Mór, making the perilous journey across the Atlantic ocean in search of sustenance. Credit: Brendan Ciarán Browne.
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