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
Birzeit University in the West Bank. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) 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
MER Article What is Prevent? In the spring of 2016, a small group of academics at the University of Cambridge put a motion before Regent House, the governing body of the university, to hold a discussion on the Prevent program—the British government’s counter-radicalization scheme. The scene during the discussion was palpably gr Mezna Qato • 7 min read
MER Article Morocco's Palestinian Politics You are not in Gaza, this is al-Hoceima!” This title describes a video clip of tear gas in the streets of al-Hoceima, the epicenter of the ongoing protests by the Hirak movement in the mountainous Rif region of northern Morocco. [1] Hirak protesters risk their lives demonstrating against corruption Zakia Salime, Paul Silverstein • 9 min read
MER Article The Thorns that Exist and Resist On August 12, 2017, more than 1,200 people gathered in Chicago to bid farewell to Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian-American community organizer facing deportation due to US government efforts to repress struggles for social justice and support for Palestinian freedom. At the gathering, Angela Davis honore Andy Clarno • 15 min read
