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 Civil Society
The arrival of new digital technologies over the past decade has had critical implications for Palestinian activism. On the one hand, these developments have reinvigorated the Palestinian cause. Indeed, social media platforms have facilitated new channels and modes of social organization, helping Palestinians counter their geographic fragmentation under Israeli apartheid.
Jerusalem continues to lie at the center of political developments in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and in the shifting landscape of US and EU foreign policy toward Palestine and the Israeli regime.
 Civil Society
Punctuated by the outbreak of the Unity Intifada in May 2021, the trajectory of Palestinian resistance is experiencing a watershed phase marked by new actors and themes. With the effective neutralization of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) since the 1993 Oslo Accords, the deepening geopolitical fragmentation of Palestinians across colonized Palestine and the world, and the global shift to cyberspace, new opportunities — and threats — to Palestinian resistance have emerged.
International aid has become an integral part of Palestinian civil society that is constantly under pressure from various actors including international donors, the Palestinian Authority as well as the Israeli occupation.
Al-Shabaka Tariq Dana
Al-Shabaka Dana Farraj
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Tariq Dana,Dana Farraj,Nur Arafeh + More· Feb 11, 2021
The role of tourism in advancing Israel's settler colonial project dates back to the arrival of Zionists in Palestine.
Al-Shabaka Halah Ahmad
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Halah Ahmad,Nur Arafeh· Dec 13, 2020
Have Arab states abandoned the Palestinian people? In this policy lab, Al-Shabaka analysts Tareq Baconi and Ibrahim Fraihat join host Nur Arafeh to weigh in on the historical understanding of normalization, implications of the UAE-Israel agreement and other normalization developments across the region, and ways forward for Palestinians in light of these changing dynamics.
In his July 2020 report to the UN Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur S. Michael Lynk asserts that "Israel continues to rely upon collective punishment as a prominent instrument in its coercive toolbox of population control."
Al-Shabaka Nada Awad
Al-Shabaka Issam Younis
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Nada Awad,Issam Younis,Nur Arafeh + More· Aug 20, 2020
Normalization relations between Israel and the Arab countries have become clearer and more acceptable than ever before. How has normalization changed over the decades, and what does it look like today? In the upcoming Policy Lab, Al-Shabaka analysts Dana Al-Kurd and Oraib Al-Rantawi will join host Nour Arafa to discuss the stages of development of normalization and its repercussions on the Palestinian struggle and on the citizens of normalizing countries.
Netanyahu has pledged to begin annexing parts of the West Bank as soon as next month. What are the implications of such a move, and what can be learned from Israel’s previous annexations of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights?
Al-Shabaka Yara Hawari
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Yara Hawari,Nur Arafeh· Jun 16, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has reached Palestine, and in doing so has brought to the surface latent power structures that render Palestinians particularly exposed to the virus.
Al-Shabaka Yara Asi
Al-Shabaka Osama Tanous
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Yara Asi,Osama Tanous,Nur Arafeh + More· Apr 7, 2020

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The Israeli system of control is facing strong Palestinian pushback, but the ways Israel seeks to escape this situation would only make things worse for the country. To find a viable way forward, the Israelis must consider the only option that will satisfy Palestinians in the long term, namely ending the occupation.
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Nur Arafeh· Dec 9, 2022
The approved units are "part of older plans made in the early 1990s of Israel's 'Jerusalem 2020' plan," said Khalil Tafakji, the top Palestinian expert on Israeli settlements in Jerusalem and director of the maps unit at Jerusalem's Orient House.
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Nur Arafeh· May 11, 2022
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The Palestinian leadership moved on several fronts this month to implement its threats to redefine and limit relations with Israel.
While a number of recent American maneuvers indicate the adoption of a new approach to resolve the political deadlock, the use of economic means as a way to transition to political peace is neither new nor likely to succeed.
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Nur Arafeh· Jun 11, 2019
Palestinian officials will not take part in a conference in Bahrain next month to encourage investment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Nur Arafeh· May 20, 2019
Recent al-Aqsa clashes are a result of Israel's long-standing plans to expand control over Jerusalem.
Al-Shabaka Nur Arafeh
Nur Arafeh· Aug 11, 2017
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