During Israel’s lengthy 2014 assault on Gaza, voices within and outside Gaza rose in desperate protest. Using numerous creative means, Palestinians and their allies bore witness to the Israeli attacks—and to the crushing siege that...
Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the ‘mixed towns’ of Israel/Palestine....
The Politics of Suffering examines the confluence of international aid, humanitarian relief, and economic development within the space of the Palestinian refugee camp. Nell Gabiam describes the interactions between UNRWA, the United Nations agency...
There are more than two sides to the conflict between Palestine and Israel. There are millions. Millions of lives, voices and stories behind the enduring struggle in Israel and Palestine, yet, the easy binary of Palestine vs. Israel on which the...
In a chance conversation with her mother, Jasmine Donahaye stumbled upon the collusion of her family in the displacement of Palestinians in 1948. She set out to learn the story of what happened, and discovered an earlier and rarely discussed piece...
Seikaly's Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home, and...
Hundreds of Palestinian villages were left empty across Israel when their residents became refugees after the 1948 war, their lands and property confiscated. Most of the villages were razed by the new State of Israel, but in dozens of others,...
Ilan Pappé is professor of history at the University of Exeter, and was formerly head of the Emile Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa. A veteran of the Yom Kippur War and two time Knesset candidate, Pappé...
Sustaining conflict develops a groundbreaking theory of political apathy, using a combination of ethnographic material, narrative, and political, cultural, and feminist theory. It examines how the status quo is maintained in Israel-Palestine,...
In the summer of 2014, Gaza was attacked by Israel for the fourth time since 2006. This attack lasted fifty-one days. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor, had worked at al-shifa hospital during each previous conflict, and in July 2014 he...
