Climate change is among the greatest threats facing humanity. Although Palestinians and Israelis inhabit the same terrain, Palestinians under occupation will suffer the effects more severely. Decreased precipitation is expected to be the most significant effect on Palestine-Israel over the course of this century, accompanied by a rise in average temperatures. The combination will result…

Palestinians recently ranked corruption as the second largest problem after the economic crisis – higher than the Israeli occupation. Palestinians generally view Palestinian Authority (PA) officials as a self-serving, elitist group disconnected from the Palestinian struggle and the people’s daily suffering. Despite this dissatisfaction, there has been little change. What remains are the “old guards”…

The US embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May 2018 set a dangerous precedent that both encouraged Israel to continue its annexation of Palestinian land and invited third states to join in violating their obligations under international law. Although condemned by many states, others followed suit and opened embassies in Jerusalem. Normalization was…

It has been 42 years since the Israeli police shot and killed six Palestinian citizens of Israel as they protested the expropriation of Palestinian land. The protests were a result of collective action to resist not only Israel’s land seizures but also its policies of erasing the presence of Palestinians. March 30, 1976 has since…

In recent months, Israel has made a series of relentless attempts to annex settlements bordering Jerusalem. Buoyed by Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Benjamin Netanyahu government has brazenly presented a slew of plans, resolutions, and bills toward this goal. Israeli politicians, administrators, and planners have also approved thousands of housing units…

Israelis speculate whether the latest developments in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption scandals mark the beginning of his political demise. It is troubling, especially to Palestinians, that if these corruption cases are the harbinger of Netanyahu’s downfall, they will have had nothing to do with the more egregious crimes for which he is responsible, and…

In 1994, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israeli government signed the Paris Protocol. It established a “contractual agreement” to formalize economic relations, which had previously been determined by Israel, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for a period of five years. Despite its expiration 19 years ago, the protocol still constitutes the basis…

The past decade has seen major shifts in Palestinian and Palestine solidarity activism in the US. Many of these changes both inform and are caused by the explosion of awareness of the Palestinian struggle. However, Palestine’s newfound popularity does not necessarily translate into more political power or better conditions for Palestinians. The wins that Palestinians…

The term apartheid is often used to refer to the situation of the Palestinians under occupation. Al-Shabaka Policy Fellow Yara Hawari examines the application of the term to the Palestinian citizens of Israel by focusing on citizenship, land, education, and politics. She also discusses whether such analysis can advance this community’s rights and counter fragmentation among Palestinians as a whole.

Surveillance of Palestinians has always been part of Israel’s colonial project, but new technologies have made this surveillance even more intrusive and widespread. Israel particularly uses social media to monitor what individual Palestinians say and do, as well as to gather and analyze information on attitudes among the Palestinian public more broadly. Palestinian anger in…