Current Analysis

Occupying Palestinian Space

Peteet’s main theoretical contribution is to show how the violent territorial expansion of Israeli settler-colonialism has developed mobility regimes that govern and restrict Palestinian movement through space.

Haim Jacoby • 7 min read

MER Article

Israel’s Permanent Siege of Gaza

The devastating human and health consequences of intervention by deprivation are noted in Ron Smith’s account of Israel’s decade-long siege of Gaza, whose dynamics are similar to the catastrophic sanctions regime imposed by the United States on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War and the siege warfare util

Ron Smith • 15 min read

MER Article

The Palestinian McCity in the Neoliberal Era

Sami Tayeb examines how a multitude of privately financed urban development projects in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank are creating a form of colonization that parallels that of Israel. Unlike Israel’s settler-colonial urbanism, however, this form of urban colonization is driven by global, and parti

Sami Tayeb • 14 min read

MER Article

The Shifting Contours of US Power and Intervention in Palestine

Lisa Bhungalia Jeannette Greven and Tahani Mustafa argue that the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign against the Palestinians—which gives Israel free reign to violently dispossess Palestinians while simultaneously withdrawing US aid for food, schools and hospitals—has both worsened Pal

Lisa Bhungalia, Jeannette Greven, Tahani Mustafa • 18 min read

Current Analysis

How One Palestinian University is Remaking ‘Israel Studies’

At Birzeit University (BZU) in the Israeli occupied West Bank, just north of Ramallah, a growing cohort of young Palestinian students are studying for their M.A. in Israel Studies. The program’s first cohort was admitted in 2015. By the summer of 2019, nearly 30 Palestinian students will have

Rebecca L. Stein • 12 min read

Current Analysis

Trump’s Full Spectrum Assault on Palestinian Politics

The attack on UNWRA is part of a full-spectrum assault on the Palestinian people’s rights and capacity to engage in politics undertaken by the Trump administration since entering office in 2016. While the President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is reportedly developing a Middle East peace plan, dubbed

Ilana Feldman • 9 min read

Current Analysis

From Gaza to Jerusalem to Iran

By forging a regional alliance aimed at confronting Iran and its allies, the new coalition of the US, Israel and allied Sunni Arab regimes intend to relegate the Palestinian issue to collateral damage in order to succeed.

Joel Beinin • 9 min read

Current Analysis

A Brief History of a Teacher's Strike

In early 2016, nearly 35,000 Palestinian teachers initiated a series of strike actions across the West Bank. Classes were dismissed and students sent home as teachers marched through Ramallah’s streets and organized sit-ins in front of Ministry of Education field offices. What was behind the strike?

Mai Abu Moghli, Mezna Qato • 11 min read

Current Analysis

Running as Resistance in Occupied Palestine

The Palestine Marathon, like its counterparts elsewhere, is meant to be a feel-good event. But it also has a political point: to highlight restrictions on movement for all Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

Joshua Stacher • 5 min read

Puerto Rican Decolonization, Armed Struggle and the Question of Palestine

Lolita Lebrón, 24 years after unfurling the Puerto Rican flag and opening fire in the US House of Representatives in 1954, [1] once again cried out against Puerto Rico’s colonial status in 1978. “The liberation movement of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico,” declared Lebrón, “conscious of its historic

Sara Awartani • 14 min read

MER Article

Palestine Dispatch

Palestinian adherents of what is known as the peace process never quite entertained the illusion that the United States is a neutral arbiter, let alone honest broker in matters Israeli-Palestinian. Rather, they allowed themselves to believe that, precisely on account of its close relationship and th

Mouin Rabbani • 4 min read

MER Article

Talhami, American Presidents and Jerusalem

Jerusalem has been the focus of an increasing number of academic publications in the past several years. Most of these publications focus mainly on the city’s history, identity and changing architectural features since Israel occupied its eastern section after the June 1967 War. Few serious attempts

Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud • 3 min read