Op-Eds & Articles

A leadership vacuum is looming, and its effect on the peace process and everyday life has alarmed many observers.

EU support for Palestinian security reforms has not increased prospects for a democratic and viable Palestinian state as intended.

Recent al-Aqsa clashes are a result of Israel's long-standing plans to expand control over Jerusalem.

A legal challenge over humiliating treatment of female passengers on Israeli airlines highlights the racist and gendered nature of security faced by Palestinian women flying to and from Israel.

The crisis in Gaza is not simply a humanitarian tragedy. It’s a moral outrage.

Israel has used the last 50 years of occupation to shape the Palestinian economy to suit its own interests.

Al-Shabaka's Nadia Hijab, Nur Arafeh and Tariq Dana lend their expertise to this critical compilation from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Palestinian nationalism, Palestinian voices, and policy alternatives.

Empowering Palestinians means equipping them with the tools to resist Israeli settler colonial rule and enhancing their capacities for solidarity, resilience and steadfastness. International aid actors must recognize and accept that development under military occupation and colonization means first and foremost a process of confrontation to realize rights, including the right to self-determination.

As we mark the anniversaries of the Balfour Declaration, the Palestinian nakba, the Israeli occupation, the Oslo accords and the intra-Palestinian divide, the realities on the ground get worse, the ramifications of these tragic events become more entrenched, and justice and peace recede further and further into the distance. Given these political trajectories, and the new global, regional and local orders, a discussion of how to end the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 might appear odd to some.