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Gaza’s Summer: Destruction, Pandemic, and Climate Change

by Asmaa Abu Mezied on June 13, 2021

Gaza’s Summer: Destruction, Pandemic, and Climate Change

The recent Israeli assault on Gaza has increased fears about the summer to come. As rising global temperatures continue to threaten Gaza, Palestinians are bracing for a hot summer with widespread destruction and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Commentary Civil Society

Gaza Between Occupation, Division, and COVID-19: Confronting Total Collapse

by Ali Abdel-Wahab on January 14, 2021

Gaza is in a state of total collapse. How has the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges Palestinians in Gaza experience as a result of the ongoing Israeli occupation and political division in their leadership? Al-Shabaka member Ali Abdel-Wahab examines the impacts of these three factors on the lives of Gazans, and describes their strategies for confronting this reality. 

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Policy Brief Civil Society

YouTube’s Violation of Palestinian Digital Rights: What Needs to be Done

by Amal Nazzal on December 27, 2020

YouTube Palestinian Censorship

Palestinians are increasingly reporting that their digital rights are being violated by social media platforms, including YouTube. Al-Shabaka policy analyst, Amal Nazzal, examines YouTube’s problematic community guidelines and policies, and how they are used to discriminate against Palestinian users’ content. She offers recommendations for protecting the digital rights of Palestinian activists, journalists, and human rights defenders.

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Policy Brief Civil Society

Destroying Palestinian Jerusalem, One Institution at a Time

by Yara Hawari on October 29, 2020

Israeli closure Palestinian Jerusalem institutions

The Israeli state has actively sought to destroy Palestinian Jerusalem since its creation in 1948. Al-Shabaka’s Senior Palestine Policy Fellow, Yara Hawari, examines the July 2020 attacks on three Palestinian cultural institutions in East Jerusalem as part of the Israeli regime’s systematic destruction of the city’s Palestinian identity. She offers policy recommendations for protecting Jerusalem’s Palestinian cultural and political institutions.

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Policy Memo Civil Society

The Reification of Ramallah: Undermining a Palestinian Capital in Jerusalem

by Halah Ahmad on May 3, 2020

While civil society organizations have highlighted tourism’s role in advancing Israeli land theft in the West Bank, few describe how Palestinian Authority (PA) investments can also undermine Palestinian calls for self-determination. Al-Shabaka’s Halah Ahmad analyzes how the PA’s governmental and cultural investments in Ramallah establish facts on the ground that obscure Palestinian claims to a capital in Jerusalem.

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Commentary Civil Society

Israel’s Losing Battle: Palestine Advocacy in the University

by Hatem Bazian on April 21, 2020

palestine advocacy SJP Berkeley

The majority of suppression of Palestine advocacy in the US targets university students and faculty. Al-Shabaka’s Hatem Bazian traces the historic rise of this advocacy, offering recommendations for how the university, despite attacks against it, can continue to provide and even amplify an environment that fosters critical thinking on Palestine, in turn furthering the struggle for Palestinian rights. 

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Policy Memo Civil Society

In Palestine, COVID-19 Meets the Israeli Occupation

by Yara Hawari on April 14, 2020

covid-19 in palestine

The West Bank and Gaza Strip are confronting COVID-19 from a reality of Israeli military occupation. Al-Shabaka Senior Palestine Policy Fellow Yara Hawari analyzes the severe challenges this presents to Palestinians, Israel’s political manipulation of the virus, and the international community’s normalizing response – and how it should change.  

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Commentary Civil Society

Radical Futures: When Palestinians Imagine

by Yara Hawari on March 24, 2020

radical futures palestine

Settler colonial projects such as Israel seek to control perceptions of reality in order to bind Indigenous and colonized people in a seemingly perpetual state of being. Imagining a future beyond this state is thus a rebellious and radical act. Al-Shabaka’s Yara Hawari explores the need for Palestinian imaginings of radical futures and highlights current examples of such work. 

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Commentary Civil Society

Criminalizing Palestinian Resistance: The EU’s Additional Condition on Aid to Palestine

by Tariq Dana on February 2, 2020

EU aid to Palestine

The EU recently announced additional conditions on its aid to Palestinian civil society organizations, namely that they must not deal with individuals or groups designated by the EU as “terrorist.” What effects will this have and what can Palestinians do about it? Al-Shabaka spoke with policy analyst Tariq Dana about these questions and international aid to Palestine more broadly. 

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Policy Brief Civil Society

Maps, Technology, and Decolonial Spatial Practices in Palestine

by Zena Agha on January 14, 2020

Palestine decolonial maps

The practice of mapping in Palestine-Israel has long been an exercise in power, imperialism, and dispossession. Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Zena Agha examines how Palestinians have been excluded from maps of their own land from the British Mandate to today, and explores ways that Palestinians can – and do – reclaim maps as a means of resistance. 

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