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U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians

In order to encourage the Palestinians to participate in the Madrid Peace Conference as part of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, the US administration sent them, through Faisal al-Husseini, a ...
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A Piece of Paper That Changed Everything

Palestine Square ...
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Archiving in a Time of Genocide

JOIN US ON ZOOM ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 21 AT 11 AM EST/6 PM PALESTINE* Since the genocide began, documenting and archiving ...
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Silwan: Biblical Archaeology, Cultural Appropriation, and Settler Colonialism

Archaeological excavations in the village of Silwan, southeast of the Old City of Jerusalem, began more than 150 years ago and have revealed multiple layers of civilizations dating from as early as ...
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Silwan, the Bleeding Wound

Silwan neighborhood, immediately south of the outer walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, has been the site of an ongoing Zionist settlement campaign using all of the diverse tools of demographic ...
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Shrinking Spaces and Prospects for Resilience: Palestinian Civil Society in Jerusalem Between Repression and Conditional Funding

تواجه منظمات المجتمع المدني الفلسطيني في القدس مرحلة مفصلية من تاريخها، إذ باتت تتعرض لمساحات متقلصة متزايدة بفعل سياسات إسرائيلية ممنهجة تجمع بين نزع الشرعية، والإسكات، والرقابة الصارمة، وتجفيف مصادر ...
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Israeli Security Discourse on the Jordan Valley After October 7: Security as a Tool and a Result of Sovereignty

تبحث هذه الورقة في التحولات التي جرت في الخطاب الأمني الإسرائيلي بشأن غور الأردن بعد 7 تشرين الأول/أكتوبر 2023، انطلاقاً من فرضية أنّ الأمن لم يعد مجرّد وسيلة لحماية السيادة، بل أيضاً غدا أداةً لإنتاج ...
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The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Thinking and Practice: Historical Roots and Contemporary Challenges

Introduction Land and demography were always at the heart of the conflict between the Zionist colonial-settlers in Palestine and the indigenous Palestinians. Today most scholars of colonialism ...
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Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Gaza

Cultural heritage is defined as everything that mankind inherits from its past and includes material and non-material heritage. It is an essential component of cultural identity and a principal avenue ...
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Jaffa: The Rise and Fall of an Agrarian City

Nadi Abusaada is an architect, urbanist, and researcher. He is currently a PhD candidate in architecture at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on urban and architectural transformations ...
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'According to Whose Archives?’: The Tantura Massacre and Revisionist Israeli Historiography

Hashem Abushama is a doctoral candidate in human geography at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment. His research interests lie at the intersection between urban ...
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Beyond Grief: To Love and Stay with Those Who Die in Our Arms

Devin G. Atallah, PhD is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB). His research and action team at UMB is the DARA Collective. He is a diaspora Palestinian ...