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As Israelis vote today, analysts warn that a change in government is unlikely to bring a change in policy toward Palestinians. At an @imeupolicy briefing earlier this month, @dianabuttu, Tamir Sorek, & @AssalRad challenged Western media’s focus on Netanyahu, arguing the deeper issue is a political system built on occupation and exclusion, one that leaves Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza without a vote and has sidelined Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship. Whatever the result, Palestinians will remain outside the ballot box and at the center of its consequences. Read Alessandra Pellegrini’s report at Palestine Square: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…

Earlier this month, researcher and journalist Sophia Goodfriend was denied entry to Israel after border police questioned her over tweets she published during the genocide. Five other journalists have also been denied entry in the last two weeks, with some visas getting revoked only hours before flights. In 2023, Goodfriend published a piece with the Journal of Palestine Studies about how youths in Jerusalem used social media to draw unprecedented attention to settler violence in the historic city, despite Israel’s intrusive monitoring and surveillance. Read the article on the Journal of Palestine Studies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

In this poem, Mariam Mohammed Khateeb, fleeing the genocide to Japan, reflects on encountering other Palestinians from colonized historic Palestine and the absurdity of settler-colonial displacement and fragmentation. Khateeb reflects on travel and memory, and on the concept of home, describing how places remain alive in human consciousness long after their destruction and regardless of physical distance. Read the full poem on the Journal of Palestine Studies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Rana Anani explores the life and work of the late Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour in "On the Path of the Ghoul: The Memoirs of Sliman Mansour", tracing how his art reflects Palestine’s landscape, heritage, and ongoing struggle. Excerpts taken from the introduction of the English translation of the book. Read the full text at the link below: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…

This chapter by Arees Bishara, from IPS' Arabic flagship reference work "The General Survey of Israel," examines the origins and development of Israel’s technology industries, exploring their ties to military institutions, the systems of surveillance and control imposed on Palestinians, and the broader colonial structures that shape technological innovation and its global expansion. Read the English translation of this chapter from the fifth edition of the General Survey of Israel, originally published in Arabic by the Institute for Palestine Studies, at the link below: palestine-studies.org/node/1…

Israel, as an occupying power, has the obligation to protect Palestinians against all acts of violence. In her article for the Journal of Palestine Studies, Mais Qandeel examines Israeli settler violence from the lens of this obligation and of the law of 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. Read the article via the Journal of Palestine Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.202…

“Amid the ongoing loss, the perpetual deferral of mourning, the endless bereavement of space, of heritage, of beloveds, Palestinians live time and space differently. They carry the memories of all that is now rubble. They take the long view. They recognize how narration works. They understand that 'the passive voice and the targeting system … both leave the object, the body, the home, the family, hung alone in the sentence.' They return to their destroyed lands, tend to the vines that survived, harvest fruit. They recover rare manuscripts, handwritten documents, copies of the Quran and historical works from the devastated Omari Mosque library. And they know the truth.” @shereneseikaly From the latest issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies, coming soon.

This chapter by Himmat Zoubi, from IPS' Arabic flagship reference work "The General Survey of Israel," examines the history, lived realities, and ongoing struggles of Palestinians, exploring the systems of discrimination and control they face, as well as their continued resistance and efforts to sustain collective identity. Read the English translation of this chapter from the fifth edition of the General Survey of Israel, originally published in Arabic by the Institute for Palestine Studies, at the link below: palestine-studies.org/node/1…

Neha Madhira examines the role of AI-assisted warfare in Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza and the corporations helping enable it. Read the full analysis on Palestine Square at the link below: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…

In this review of Tareq Baconi's memoir, Nadim Bawalsa describes Baconi's striking alignment of his experience as a Palestinian in exile with his journey to queer liberation. Fire in Every Direction, Bawalsa argues, is a tribute to the queer Arab, to anguished millennials, to Amman, and to every Palestinian struggling with the rage of injustice. Palestinian exile, as Baconi vividly shows, is ongoing Nakba and, until liberation, it is fire in every direction. Read it on our latest issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly. palestine-studies.org/en/nod…

Palestinian farmers are being driven from their olive groves by settler violence. At a Crisis Action briefing last week, Palestinian farmers’ representatives and humanitarian workers warned that settlement expansion and escalating settler violence are threatening livelihoods, displacing communities, and eroding a tradition central to Palestinian life. Laila Alqaddumi reports: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…