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Grounding the Current Moment: An Al-Shabaka Syllabus

Focus Politics

Grounding the Current Moment: An Al-Shabaka Syllabus

by Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network on October 24, 2023

As much of the world struggles to make sense of the devastation across colonized Palestine since October 7th, Palestinians speaking out continue to be dehumanized and silenced in an effort to quash testimonies that challenge the dominant discourse. To counter this strategy, Al-Shabaka has compiled a collection of its past works that may serve to ground readers in the wider context of this current moment. Together, these publications, webinars, and podcasts speak to the many layers that form the foundation of this point of rupture. They offer possibilities for new ways both to understand the past and present, as well as to envision a radically different future.

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Focus On: Visions for Political Futures

by Amal Ahmad, Yara Asi, Sam Bahour, Nadim Bawalsa, Leila Farsakh, Layth Hanbali, Yara Hawari, Ahmad Samih Khalidi, Rania Muhareb on September 12, 2023

With the demise of the so-called two-state solution and the entrenchment of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid across Palestine, the possibility of a sovereign Palestinian state is further from reality than ever before. What does a Palestinian political future beyond partition look like? What would this entail for Palestinians within colonized Palestine and across the diaspora? Given their forced fragmentation, how might Palestinians forge collective visions for their political future? In our latest Focus On, Al-Shabaka’s policy analysts imagine Palestinian political futures within the context of historical and ongoing realities. 

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Focus On: Palestinian Digital Rights

by Wassim F. Abdullah, Zena Agha, Nur Arafeh, Sam Bahour, Ahmad Barclay, Tariq Dana, Marwa Fatafta, David Musleh, Nadim Nashif, Amal Nazzal, Ibrahim Shikaki on August 17, 2022

New digital technologies have reinvigorated the Palestinian cause locally and globally. However, Palestinians and their allies have been increasingly targeted online, including through surveillance, silencing, and cyberthreats. In this Focus On, Al-Shabaka analysts examine these trends and address Israeli surveillance tactics, the complicity of the PA, and how Palestinians and their allies can resist violations of their digital rights.

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Focus On: Jerusalem Revisited

by Zena Agha, Halah Ahmad, Nur Arafeh, Tareq Baconi, Muna Dajani, Dana El Kurd, Yara Hawari, Nadia Hijab, Victor Kattan, Munir Nuseibah on April 27, 2022

Jerusalem is increasingly at the center of developments across colonized Palestine. Indeed, from forced expulsions to attacks on worshipers, the Israeli regime is determined to de-Palestinianize the city. In light of Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign and Palestinian Jerusalemites’ resistance to it, Al-Shabaka revisits the topic of Jerusalem with a new selection of publications from our analysts.

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Focus On: Cracking Down on Resistance

by Sam Bahour, Rana Barakat, Mary Nazzal-Batayneh, Oroub el-Abed, Nadia Hijab, Victor Kashkoush, Anis Kassim, Osamah Khalil, Mouin Rabbani, Jamil Hilal, Loubna Qutami, Haidar Eid, Yara Hawari, Nadim Nashif, Raya Naamneh, Omar Barghouti, Marwa Fatafta, Tariq Dana, Hatem Bazian, Noura Erakat, Alaa Tartir, Issam Younis, Nada Awad, Nur Arafeh, Diana Buttu, Ingrid Jaradat Gassner on August 26, 2021

palestinian resistance

Palestinian resistance to Israeli hegemony is transforming significantly. In this Focus On, Al-Shabaka’s policy analysts examine the trajectory of contemporary Palestinian resistance. They focus on ongoing challenges, including the censorship of anti-Zionist activists, and the persecution of Palestinians by Palestinian security forces. They emphasize which actors and tactics should be harnessed as the resistance continues to grow and confront oppression.

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Focus On: Palestinian Political Leadership

by Jamil Hilal, Marwa Fatafta, Yara Hawari, Zachariah Sammour, Fadi Quran, Dana El Kurd, Noura Erakat, Haidar Eid, Samah Sabawi, Loubna Qutami, Ali Abdel-Wahab, Tareq Baconi on February 23, 2021

Palestinian political leadership is in a state of crisis. How did this come to be and what does the future hold? In this Focus On, we look back on several pieces authored by Al-Shabaka analysts which explore issues of Palestinian leadership in the past and present, and which propose concrete possibilities for future models that specifically engage youth.  

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Reclaiming The PLO, Re-Engaging Youth

by Nijmeh Ali, Marwa Fatafta, Dana El Kurd, Fadi Quran, Belal Shobaki on August 13, 2020

PLO report

How can the PLO maintain accountability as both a national liberation movement and governing body? How might Hamas and Islamic Jihad be integrated after decades of exclusion? What models of Palestinian youth leadership can be further developed? Al-Shabaka analysts address these and other questions in this full-length report, a year-long exercise facilitated by Alaa Tartir…

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Marking the Nakba: From Betrayals and Warnings to Future Visions

by Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network on May 15, 2020

To mark the 72nd year of the Nakba – the catastrophe when Zionist forces evicted the majority of Palestinians from their homes and lands, occupying 78% of Palestine – Al-Shabaka reissues this insightful compilation of essays by its engaged scholars and analysts.  These timely pieces dissect the betrayal of Palestine, the struggle of the refugees, the warning signs during the decades of seeking Palestinian-Israeli peace without justice, and strategies for the future. They give us strength at a time of looming annexation and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Focus On: Palestine’s Natural Resources

by Samer Abdelnour, Zena Agha, Tareq Baconi, Muna Dajani, Victor Kattan, Vivien Sansour, Alaa Tartir, Rami Zurayk on October 17, 2019

Palestine has an abundance of natural resources, but in the decades since the establishment of the state of Israel they have been compromised and exploited. In this collection of analysis, Al-Shabaka experts provide insight into issues related to Palestinian natural resources, from their theft by Israel to the effects of climate change and its intersection with the Israeli occupation.

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Focus On: International Aid to Palestine

by Samer Abdelnour, Sam Bahour, Nora Lester Murad, Alaa Tartir, Jeremy Wildeman on September 4, 2019

The Trump Administration’s aid cuts to Palestinians, while disastrous, can spur a reassessment of the Oslo Accords aid model, which for decades has failed to bring Palestinians closer to freedom, self-determination, or statehood. In this collection of pieces, Al-Shabaka analysts examine aid to Palestine and its harmful ramifications, and suggest ways to reform and reinvent Palestinian aid.

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