In Pursuit of Justice at the ICC with Rania Muhareb
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Rania Muhareb 00:00 Together with an ICC investigation, there needs to be also effective measures by states – sanctions to bring to an end the illegal situation, including the apartheid regime imposed over the Palestinian people, and other effective measures in order to end […]
The Politicization of Public Sector Employment and Salaries in the West Bank and Gaza
The Palestinian Authority has withheld salary payments from thousands of Palestinian public sector employees. Al-Shabaka policy analyst, Tariq Dana, and 24456 examine the ways in which the PA has politicized and exploited public sector employment and salaries as a political tradeoff. They offer recommendations for how to remedy the situation, and bring about economic equality for Palestinians.
The Palestinian Elections: Real Change or Reality Check?
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are bracing for the first general elections to take place in 15 years, while the Palestinian Authority seeks to renew its legitimacy amid shifting regional and global realities. Who are the leaders and political bodies Palestinians will be voting for? How are these elections affected by regional and […]
Palestinian Digital Rights: Crackdowns & Corporate Complicity with Amal Nazzal
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Amal Nazzal 00:00 When you are not paying for the product, you are the product. I think this is the case with Facebook and other social media platforms, and all the scandals of Facebook, particularly, in violating our own digital rights and selling our […]
Focus On: Palestinian Political Leadership
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.
The Demise of Palestinian Productive Sectors: Internal Trade as a Microcosm of the Impact of Occupation
The Israeli occupation has crippled Palestinian productive sectors, leading to the dominance of internal trade in the Palestinian economy. Al-Shabaka policy analyst, Ibrahim Shikaki, examines how these structural distortions developed as a result of Israel’s oppressive economic policies since it occupied Palestine in 1967. He offers recommendations to the international community and aid agencies for how to support Palestinian economic self-determination.
Limitations and Possibilities of the Apartheid Framework with Lana Tatour
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Lana Tatour 00:00 Through seemingly radical discourse, for example, apartheid is being reconfigured from a colonial question into a liberal question. So the problem is the lack of equality; it is not colonization; it is not Zionism as a racist, settler colonial movement. Yara Hawari 00:27 […]
Gaza Between Occupation, Division, and COVID-19: Confronting Total Collapse
Gaza is in a state of total collapse. How has the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges Palestinians in Gaza experience as a result of the ongoing Israeli occupation and political division in their leadership? Al-Shabaka member Ali Abdel-Wahab examines the impacts of these three factors on the lives of Gazans, and describes their strategies for confronting this reality.
2020 and the Palestinian Leadership with Tareq Baconi
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Tareq Baconi 00:00 I think the Palestinian struggle is also ongoing – in the sense that its understanding now in this 21st century reality we’re living in – that there are new forms of mobilization that can reshape an alternative phase of Palestinian liberation, […]
