Al-Shabaka Commentary Dina Omar

Trashing Four Generations of Palestinian Inheritance

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Al-Shabaka Commentary Rosemary Sayigh

The Price of Statelessness: Palestinian Refugees From Syria

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Al-Shabaka Policy Brief Tariq Dana

Palestinian Civil Society: What Went Wrong?

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Al-Shabaka Policy Brief Samer Abdelnour

Beyond South Africa: Understanding Israeli Apartheid

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Israel is estimated to have forcibly displaced some 66% of the whole Palestinian population by 2011. Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Munir Nuseibah identifies six different methods Israel uses on both sides of the Green Line and elaborates two: Personal status engineering and urban planning. He argues for a holistic approach to address the systematic nature of forced displacement, which is grounded in the very ethos of a state established to create and maintain a Jewish majority in all of historic Palestine.

Al-Shabaka in the Media

4 June 2013
Opinion by Sam Bahour

Next to U.S. support for Israel, the main reason why the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip continues is that the Europeans have reduced themselves to a subservient role in the Middle East Peace Process: one in which they underwrite the cost of Israel’s occupation by artificially propping up the Palestinian Authority, which created from the Oslo Peace Accords but has no sovereign authority whatever...

15 May 2013
Interview by Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

On May 15th, Palestinians commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe) that led to the expulsions from their homes and decades of exile and dispossession. We hear their stories and hopes for a resolution to the conflict, including those of Al-Shabaka co-founder Osamah Khalil, Assistant Professor at Syracuse University.