Walid Khalidi on the Making of Before Their Diaspora Institute for Palestine Studies 2026-09-20 | Walid Khalidi on the Making of Before Their Diaspora
Youth Agricultural Cooperatives in the Palestinian Central Highlands (West Bank) - 25/3/2024 Institute for Palestine Studies 2024-04-02 | ...
The Second Annual Palestine Forum - 2024 - Opening Session - 10/ 2/ 2024 Institute for Palestine Studies 2024-02-12 | ...
The Destruction of Gazas Health Sector: Confronting Devastation and Forced Displacement Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-12-26 | ...
Collecting Family Stories: Learning from the Case of the Ongoing Nakba Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-12-22 | To commemorate 75 years of the Nakba, the Institute for Palestine Studies hosted a "How to write your Nakba story?" workshop. Five stories were published in English, Arabic, and Spanish after writers attended training in narrative writing, oral history collection, and trauma-informed reporting.Reflecting on her experience as a writer in the series, Marah Abdel Jaber is co-leading this lecture with the writing workshop's organizer Laura Albast, to share a practical guide on documenting family narratives, oral history collection tools, and journalism's role in generating access to personal histories. Focusing on the experience of the Nakba as a canon of violent fragmentation of Palestinian society, the presenters will also discuss the impact of narrative as a producer of the Palestinian collective conscience.This lecture derives from past and current efforts of collecting Palestinian stories combining the practice of oral history, journalism, and trauma-informed tools. Speakers will share tools and examples from 1948 in Silwad to 2023 in Gaza.
Wounds of War: The Gaza Experience Through the Eyes of Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-12-18 | ...
Amahl Bishara: Palestinians in 48 territories have also been impacted by the war Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-12-12 | Since Oct. 7, over 120,000 Israelis have applied for a gun license. As people remember the civilian violence against Palestinians in 2021, these civil militias infuse terror into spaces where Palestinians live in proximity to Jewish Israelis.
Wounds of War: The Gaza Experience Through the Eyes of Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta @G Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-12-09 | LIVE NOW with Dr.Ghassan Abu Sitta speaking about the dire situation in Gaza and his experience from the frontlines. Watch
Michèle Sibony: L’impact des événements de Gaza sur la France Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-12-01 | ...
Tareq Baconi: Oct. 7 shattered the idea that Israel was invincible Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-29 | In this clip, Tareq Baconi talks about the lead-up to the Oct. 7 operation, the relationship between Hamas and Israel during the last 16 years, and what the Oct. 7 attack meant for Israel and Hamas. In the second half of the video, he comments on the temporary ceasefire agreement and how there is relative power on one side of the negotiations. Tareq Baconi is the author of "Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance," and book review editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Professeur Abdel Monhem Hamid: Pneumologue et Réanimateur Chargé de mission médicale pour Gaza Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-29 | ...
Dalal Abou Saoud: département pédagogie et éducation numérique Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-28 | ...
Hakim Sabbah: co-fondateur de lassociation Project Hope a Naplouse Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-23 | ...
Lana Sadeq: Militante palestinienne Forum Palestine Citoyenneté Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-23 | ...
Nadia Chatila: Oui nous savons et nous entendons. Nous sommes derrière la population de Gaza. Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-23 | ...
Isabelle Perez: Doctorat en journalism et journaliste en Espagne Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-23 | ...
Naji El Khatib: Professeur et chercheur en sociologie Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-23 | ...
Leila Shahid : Les luttes des peuples sont devenues plus importantes que celles des États Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-23 | ...
François Burgat:Directeur de recherche émérite au Centre national de la recherche scientifique(CNRS) Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-23 | ...
Gilbert Achcar: Limage dIsraël ne cesse de se dégrader Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-23 | ...
Dr. Tarek Mitri: Arab Popular Solidarity Brought about Important Political Transformations Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-11-09 | ...
Researcher Razi Nabulsi: The Palestinians of 1948 Are Beneath Citizens in the Occupying State Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-28 | ...
Actor Saleh Bakri: Artists/Celebrities Must Speak Up Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-28 | ...
Dispatch from Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Oct. 27, 2023 Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-27 | Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah 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. 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 and the hundreds of patients there.From this clip: “Today, the number of martyrs exceeded 7500, these are only the martyrs that we accounted for. There’s more than 1600 [missing]. We expect that more martyrs are under the rubble. AlShifa hospital only has 36 hours left of fuel. Tens of thousands of displaced families sought shelter to AlShifa [hospital] complex. The complex has become a city of tents for displaced families that fled the barbaric cruel bombardment.”
Dispatch from Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Oct. 16, 2023 Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-26 | ...
Dispatch from Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Oct. 10, 2023 Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-26 | Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah filmed this video yesterday, October 10, from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.“The number of the wounded is 4500, it is almost double the number of beds.”“The siege led to a severe shortage in all medical supplies.”“The wounded, like all Gaza wars, 30 to 40 percent of them are children.”“It’s only day 4… the situation will only get worse.”
Khaled Farraj:The Occupation Also Targets Journalists Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-26 | Our Director General in Beirut gives an overview of Israel’s pattern of targeting journalists. Swipe for the updated graphic on the names of martyred journalists and those reported injured or missing while covering the genocide in Gaza.
Leila Shahid: struggles of people have become more important than states Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-26 | Leila Shahid, former Palestinian Ambassador to Netherlands, Ireland, France, and the EU gives her view of where public opinion in Europe stands in regards to Palestine.
Spanish Journalist Isabel Perez on Gaza in The Spanish Media Scene Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-25 | ...
Yanis Varoufakis: Its not the time to study Palestine, but to defend the existence of Palestinians Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-22 | Yanis Varoufakis is the former Minister of Finance of Greece. During his country's debt crisis in 2015, he led negotiations against the austerity measures being pushed by the European Central Bank and the IMF. An economist by profession, Dr. Varoufakis is the author of more than a dozen books, including 'And the Weak Suffer What They Must?' and 'Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.'In this message, he expresses his solidarity with the Palestinian people. He denounces the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, as well as the false narratives being pushed by Western media and politicians in support of apartheid. "Let's keep fighting," he says.
Mais Qandeel: Violence and State Attribution Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-22 | Mais Qandeel contextualizes her article, 'Violence and State Attribution: The Case of Occupied Palestine,' from the Journal of Palestine Studies to the genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza. Her article examines Israeli settler violence from the lens of this obligation and of the law of state responsibility. In doing so, it first provides examples of settler attacks against Palestinians, with particular emphasis on acts of violence that are backed up or facilitated by state security forces. Second, in an analysis of these acts of settler violence, it argues that these belong to the category of state-backed crimes. Third, it outlines what constitutes state responsibility for wrongful acts, as codified in international law, and demonstrates that acts of settler violence are crimes that are attributable to the state, which triggers state responsibility. Settler violence against Palestinians, which is often lethal and always injurious, is not and has never been a matter of domestic law enforcement.
Muhammad Ali Khalidi: The Most Moral Army in the World Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-22 | Muhammad Ali Khalidi contextualizes his 2010 article from the Journal of Palestine Studies, "The Most Moral Army in the World:" The New "Ethical Code" of the Israeli Military and the War on Gaza, to the genocide carried by Israel in Gaza. His article: palestine-studies.org/en/node/42332
Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb: A word from heads of churches on behalf of Christian Palestinians in Gaza Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-10-22 | Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb is the founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University
The Political Economy of the India-Israel Partnership Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-09-27 | India and Israel use the convergence of the logic of colonialism and capitalism and their narrative fortifications to strengthen their processes of violent state-building and colonial and settler colonial consolidation.This lecture will discuss how the Indian and Israeli projects of economic liberalization overlap with one another in areas such as defense, security, sustainability, and infrastructure. It will contextualize the role played by each component in contributing to each state's respective colonial and settler projects and the entrenchment of authoritarian rule in both. The most notable examples include the Israeli involvement in the BJP's flagship Make in India campaign and the privatization of the Haifa Port, which has since been purchased by the India-based Adani Group.
Jerusalems Interrupted Futures: Special Issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-05-25 | This was a conversation with the authors published in this issue who bring forth the history that shifts the balance between victors and vanquished.
Writing Our Nakba Stories Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-05-22 | Over the past few months, five writers of Palestinian heritage attended the 'How to Write Your Nakba Story?' workshop hosted by the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) to commemorate 75 years of the Nakba. Led by Laura Albast, the workshop aimed to give space, support, and power to young writers to tell their own stories. Journalists and academics delivered sessions on reporting and oral history practices, including how to approach conversations with a trauma-informed lens.Writers read excerpts from their stories and share their experiences collecting the testimonies of family and friends. The stories produced center histories of Palestinians who were expelled from Silwad, Bethlehem, Jaffa, 'Ilabun, Akka, Jerusalem, and Jenin. Their stories are about resistance, displacement, love, family, memory, and sacrifice. We are thrilled to share them with you and introduce new voices and untold histories from the collective Palestinian consciousness. What happened to their family and neighbors in 1948? Where did they go? What was different when they stayed, returned? Who was lost? What was left behind? What are the memories passed down? And what was built in exile, in refugee camps, in the generations that came after the expulsion?The stories have been published in English, Arabic, and Spanish. Palestinian artist and author Aya Ghanameh illustrated the stories. Read the stories: bit.ly/nakbastories
Film Archives after Liberation Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-05-15 | The board of South Africa's Film and Publication Board recently ruled that Ousmane Sembène's seminal 1966 film Black Girl contained hate speech and was not fit for screening during the Joburg Film Festival. A similar incident took place during the fifteen edition of Documenta when an Expert Panel determined that an installation featuring militant films of the Palestinian revolution (1960-80s) was antisemitic because Israel was portrayed in a one-sided negative way. These acts of censorship raise fundamental questions about the politics surrounding film archives. Indeed, what is it about film archives that is so confronting and threatening in the aftermath of formal colonialism and liberation? How do film archives as memory fragments and traces of history contribute to reproduce or unsettle pasts but also to reimagine alternative futures? And what are the challenges of working with film archives in the current political moment, particularly concerning access, indexing, copy rights, circulation, visibility, infrastructure, and so on? These and other questions will be central to our next seminar on the ‘Politics of archives and struggles for emancipation: Reflecting on experiences from Middle East and Southern Africa'.The seminar series ‘Politics of archives and struggles for emancipation: Reflecting on experiences from Middle East and Southern Africa' engages Middle Eastern and Southern Africa experiences in archival building, oral histories and public histories in relation to emancipatory politics. Through five conversations that engage two speakers from each region, we will address critical questions such as what is the role of archive production and public history in the face off between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic narratives? Which uses of archive and public history helped empowering local communities and giving voice to dispossessed populations? How do we conceive archiving practices that fit with emancipatory goals? And what are the archival afterlives of emancipatory politics?These and other questions will be central to our next seminar on the ‘Politics of archives and struggles for emancipation: Reflecting on experiences from Middle East and Southern Africa', an initiative by the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Wits History Workshop, Birzeit University, Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), Observatory of the Arab and Muslim Worlds (OMAM) and IFAS Research.
11 Lives: Stories from Palestinian Exile Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-04-26 | The 11 lives given voice here are unique, each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular; and each tells the story of all Palestinians.As Edward Said argued in 1984, the object of Israel's colonial warfare is not only material—seeking to minimise Palestinian existence as such—but is also a narrative project that aims to obliterate Palestinian history “as possessed of a coherent narrative direction pointed towards self-determination.”In these pages, Palestinian refugees narrate their own histories. The product of a creative-writing workshop organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies in Lebanon, 11 Lives tells of children's adventures in the alleyways of refugee camps, of teenage martyrs and ghosts next-door, of an UNRWA teacher's dismay at the shallowness of her colleagues, and of the love, labour, and land that form the threads of a red keffiyeh.What unites these 11 stories is “the inadmissible existence of the Palestinian people” highlighted by Said. Their words persist, as one contributor writes, “between the Nakba and the Naksa, throughout defeats and massacres, love affairs and revolutions.” The stories of Palestinians in exile are also open-ended, and will continue to reverberate across borders until Palestine is free.This event was co-hosted with Hearing Palestine at the University of Toronto on March 30, 2023.
Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-03-06 | This book is the first comprehensive examination of UN efforts to protect Palestinian human rights in the territories occupied by Israel more than 50 years ago in the 1967 War. Working through the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, three top international legal experts – Richard Falk, John Dugard and Michael Lynk – served for six consecutive years as unpaid Special Rapporteurs with a UN mandate to report on Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and human rights standards. Being outside the discipline that controls UN bureaucrats, they enjoyed a high measure of political independence in carrying out their factfinding and reporting missions. Strikingly, despite their differences in background and political outlook, they came to a unanimous consensus confirming the routine and various Israeli violations of Palestinian basic rights.This book recounts their frustrations, their trials, their experiences, and their conclusions. It provides an authoritative go-to resource, tracing in painstaking detail, in all its aspects, one of the most onerous, longstanding and abusive human rights situations facing the United Nations. Underscoring the importance of this mandate as providing an independent witness to the evolving deleterious effects of the continuing occupation of Palestine by Israel, Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine provides a documented, comprehensive record of violations by Israel and its ongoing defiance of international law and UN resolutions. It is likely to be the book of record on this subject.Foreword is by Francesca Albanese, the current UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestine Territory occupied since 1967.
How the US Is Planning to Build Its Embassy on Stolen Palestinian Land in Jerusalem Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-02-14 | A discussion on the US State Department's plan to build their embassy on stolen Palestinian land in Jerusalem. The plan – a violation of international law – entails the embassy's construction on private Palestinian property that has been illegally confiscated by Israel, the owners of which include numerous US citizens. Panelists will outline what the plan entails, its illegality, and what you can do to stop the US government from moving forward with the plan!ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Dr. Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. He is one of the descendants of the original landowners upon whose property in Jerusalem the US government seeks to build their embassy. Dr. Khalidi received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. He is past President of the Middle East Studies Association, and the co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He is also the president of the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA. Khalidi is the author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (published 2020), winner of the 2020 MEMO Book Award; Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013). He is the co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982), The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020).Dr. Suhad Bishara is Legal Director and Director of the Land and Planning Rights Unit at Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. She has worked with Adalah since 2001. Dr. Bishara, an expert in land rights and dispossession, has more than twenty years of experience litigating cases before the Israeli Supreme Court and served as lead lawyer in major human rights cases regarding Palestinian citizens of Israel and international humanitarian law cases concerning Palestinians in the 1967 Occupied Territory before the Israeli Supreme Court. She is leading the legal team filing an objection in the Israeli planning authorities against the US government's plan to build their embassy on Palestinian land. She holds an LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an LL.M. in Public Service Law from New York University's School of Law (USA), and recently received a PhD from King's College School of Law in London and teaches Human Rights Law at the college. She also was Palestine & Law Fellow at Columbia University Law School (2014-2015).Diala Shamas is Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security, both in the U.S. and abroad. Diala has worked at the intersection of surveillance, policing, immigration, and advises social justice movements and advocates as they face suppression efforts at the hands of the state and private actors. Diala has also worked on a range of international human rights issues. This includes human rights and humanitarian law violations in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Territory, where she has lived and worked extensively, as well refugee policies in Australia and Greece. Diala is a graduate of Yale Law School.Josh Ruebner is Director of Government Relations at the Institute for Middle East Understanding. He is adjunct lecturer in the Justice and Peace Studies program at Georgetown University and author of Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?
Global Implications of the India-Israel Relationship Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-02-14 | Far-Right Zionism and Far-right Hindutva have united to improve their relations fundamentally. The relationship is all-encompassing: economic, political, military, and cultural. How will this impact an already fragile South Asia, and what global ramifications can it have, where both regimes are attempting to crush Palestinian and Kashmiri movements for national liberation? What are the differences and similarities in this situation, and what results and prospects can we hope for? Most importantly, is victory possible, or Is defeat inevitable, and what is the US/EU role in all this?
The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions - 2/ 11/ 2022 Institute for Palestine Studies 2023-01-27 | ...
Persecution of Palestinian Civil Society: Epistemic Violence, Silencing, and the Apartheid Framework Institute for Palestine Studies 2022-12-13 | The speakers authored a new monograph of CURRENT ISSUES IN DEPTH that argues that silencing and delegitimization of Palestinian human rights advocacy, as epistemic violence, constitute key tools to entrench Israeli apartheid over the Palestinian people as a whole. The arguments here draw on Article 2(f) of the 1973 Apartheid Convention, which recognizes as an inhuman act of apartheid the “persecution of organizations and persons, by depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms, because they oppose apartheid.” Through the weaponization of “terrorism” smears, the Israeli regime seeks to discredit decades of Palestinian antiapartheid knowledge production, mobilization, activism, and advocacy for Palestinian liberation, and to justify the very oppression Palestinian civil society is working to challenge. Thus, in the growing international movement against Israeli apartheid, it remains essential to lend support to the work of Palestinian civil society, to reject the baseless designa- tions by the Israeli occupying authorities, and to elevate the experiences of and knowledge production by Palestinians who are directly affected by Israeli apartheid. This monograph is a part of our collaborative series with Against Apartheid and Racial Discrimination (AARDi) in which we aim to further uncover the systemic racism of the Israeli apartheid state.
