Confronting Energy Poverty in Gaza with Asmaa Abu Mezied
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Asmaa Abu Mezied 0:00 So what the international community ends up doing is really providing Palestinians with painkillers and very short-term solutions rather than addressing the big elephant in the room, rather than addressing the root causes, which is the role of the Israeli […]
Shrinking the Conflict: Debunking Israel’s New Strategy
Since 2021, Israeli leaders have proposed a new series of economic policies under the approach of “shrinking the conflict.” This strategy aims to afford Palestinians more economic opportunities and so-called freedoms as a way to sustain the Israeli occupation. In this policy brief, Al-Shabaka policy analyst 24583 debunks the framework and explains why Palestinians will not be pacified with economic incentives.
The PA’s Revenue Structure and Israel’s Containment Strategy
The Palestinian Authority’s budget disproportionately relies on clearance revenues that the Israeli regime regularly withholds as political blackmail. Combined with a negligible domestic tax base and the absence of political sovereignty, it is therefore futile to speak of real fiscal reform within the PA. In this policy brief, Al-Shabaka policy analyst, Amal Ahmad, examines the foundational logic of this distorted arrangement.
Israeli Demographic Engineering Across Colonized Palestine
The Israeli regime subjects Palestinians across colonized Palestine to an intricate system of demographic control.
Learning & Unlearning Palestine Part 1: Who Can Speak on Palestine?
Corporate Accountability in Palestine: Grassroots Strategies
In recent years, Palestine solidarity activists have pressured corporations to end their complicity in the Israeli regime’s violations of Palestinians’ rights.
The Legacy of Mahmoud Abbas
As of 2023, Mahmoud Abbas surpasses his democratic mandate as President of the Palestinian Authority by 14 years. And as speculation mounts about his successor, the question of his legacy lingers. In a new Al-Shabaka roundtable, policy analysts Tareq Baconi, 24588, Alaa Tartir, and Tariq Kenney-Shawa reflect on Abbas’s impact on Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
Palestine in 2022: A Year of Resistance
Yara Hawari 0:00 In our final podcast episode of the year, we have put together some of our favorite soundbites from all the episodes in 2020. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoy putting it all together. We also want to ask you for your support. At Al-Shabaka, we’re working to strengthen […]
Challenging Anti-Boycott Legislation in the US
The Israeli regime’s defenders across the US are ramping up efforts to criminalize the constitutionally protected right to boycott. Beyond violating the rights of Palestine solidarity activists, this threatens to undermine the tenets of a healthy democracy. Al-Shabaka’s US Policy Fellow, Tariq Kenney-Shawa, examines this development and suggests what lawmakers, civil society organizations, and concerned citizens should do to challenge it.
