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The Palestinian people must hold the Palestinian leadership accountable for the persistent failure of negotiations. As Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Randa Farah argues, the PLO/PA should not replace different forms of resistance to the occupation with unlimited negotiations while finding itself under pressure to actively work to halt other acts of resistance simply for these negotiations to continue – and should remember the centrality of the right of return.

Trashing Four Generations of Palestinian Inheritance

by Dina Omar

As Palestinians commemorate the 46th anniversary of Israel’s occupation on June 5th, the villagers of Rammun are particularly incensed – but their wrath is targeted primarily at the Palestinian Authority. They suspect it of complicity with the Israeli occupation in confiscating their ancestral lands for a trash landfill, just one outcome of the many decades of rights violations Palestinians everywhere experience. Al-Shabaka Policy Member Dina Omar tackles the issues.

What’s Really Going On at Rafah?

by Laila el-Haddad

Egypt now has a government more sympathetic to Hamas, the de facto government in the Gaza Strip. But Egyptian policy towards the Rafah Crossing still largely follows the parameters established by Israel for Palestinian passage -- and even when the Crossing is "open" thousands of Palestinians are not allowed through. Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Laila El-Haddad provides a concise overview of how the Crossing has been managed and its impact on the Palestinian residents of Gaza.

Palestinian Oral History as a Tool to Defend Against Displacement

The “S” in BDS: Lessons of the Elbit Systems Campaign

Threats to Human Rights Defenders: How Far Will Israel Go?

Obama’s Last Gasp on Palestine-Israel

The ICC and Palestine: A Case of Doubtful Justice

BDS: Discussing Difficult Issues in a Fast-Growing Movement

Which Jerusalem? Israel’s Little-Known Master Plans

Defeating Dependency, Creating a Resistance Economy

Keeping an Eye on UNRWA

Integrating Palestine into the Progressive Left

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