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New technologies have enabled Israel to surveil Palestinians on an unprecedented scale. Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Nadim Nashif examines Israel’s use of social media as a tool of surveillance, as well as other digital obstacles to Palestinian rights, and concludes with ways Palestinians can counter these practices and safeguard their digital freedoms.

Building a Failed State: Palestine’s Governance and Economy Delinked

by Ibrahim Shikaki, Joanna Springer

Technical solutions shorn of political context have contributed to a failed state in Palestine and harmed the collective Palestinian struggle for freedom, transforming the Palestinian Authority into an NGO-like body. Al-Shabaka Policy Member Ibrahim Shikaki and Guest Author Joanna Springer analyze the situation and suggest alternative approaches for the PA and the donor community. Read the policy brief or the executive summary.

Radical Futures: When Palestinians Imagine

The US Democratic Candidates on Racial Justice and Palestine: Divergence or Convergence?

Democracy in the West Bank and Gaza: More than Elections

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

Maps, Technology, and Decolonial Spatial Practices in Palestine

The Growing Gap between Jordan and Israel, After 25 Years of “Peace”

The Systematic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention

The Conditional Right to Health in Palestine

When Left is Right: How Palestinians Can Burst Israel’s Political Bubble

Refugees: Israeli Apartheid’s Unseen Dimension

Coronavirus in Palestine