By enforcing draconian media censorship laws, Israel is seeking to control the narrative. @laubast.bsky.social explains 2 of its recent major media bans: barring foreign press from Gaza & prohibiting foreign broadcasters, mainly Al Jazeera, from operating. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

In 2021, our Arabic journal sat down with Mohammad Bakri to explore the broader dimensions of the Palestinian struggle as they intersect with art, culture, and political expression. The interview with the late filmmaker & actor is now available in English: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

In a new report, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel - Adalah shows how Israel has used the war to accelerate laws that silence Palestinians, expand punitive detention, and harden a dual legal system meant to last long after the bombs stop. 🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

‘Aboud is a West Bank village that has been sealed off in all four directions by Israeli settlements, gates, and outposts, turning daily life into a struggle for movement, land, and survival. As Uday al-Barghouthi writes, this is displacement by design. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

Israel debates a death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners, but as Abdel Nasser Ferwana shows, executions have been routine for decades. The bill would simply formalize what already exists: an old policy of killing prisoners outside any legal framework www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

Diaspora scatters stories, but memory refuses erasure. In “Portfolio of Stolen Memories,” Rand Abdalqader weaves poems, heirlooms, invoices, and oral histories into an anticolonial archive of her Palestinian family’s life before and after the Nakba. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Happening today! Join us for a timely conversation with Dr. Tareq Emtairah of @TaawonOrg on the crisis facing Gaza’s orphans and how civil society is responding. Moderated by @jehadabusalim.bsky.social 📅 Today | 🕛 12pm ET / 7pm Jerusalem 🖥️ RSVP & join: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

A garden in Gaza: once rubble, now a lifeline. In this essay, Mariam Mushtaha shows how tending mint and basil became a way to resist hunger and reclaim dignity under genocide. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

What does it mean to walk through Elias Khoury’s novels? In Beirut, an art installation recreates his worlds of memory, exile, and love, one year after his passing. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

“My grandmother survived the Nakba. Will I survive this?” In her latest piece, Areej Almashharawi writes of loss, displacement, and resilience, tying her grandmother’s story in 1948 to her own forced evacuations today in Gaza. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Western media reframes Gaza’s genocide as Netanyahu’s failure, turning systemic settler-colonial violence into the story of one man. Jwan Zreiq writes that narrative itself has become a battlefield, where memory, mourning, and resistance are at stake. 🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

From olive groves seized behind the wall to murals in Bethlehem and youth football in Aida refugee camp, Palestinians resist erasure through land, art, and community. Dalal Radwan writes on life, creativity, and defiance under occupation. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

In this interview, Asem Alnabih, spokesperson for Gaza Municipality, describes the devastation of Gaza City and the collapse of civic life, while insisting that any reconstruction must be led by Gazans themselves. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

In Gaza, Areej Almashharawi teaches kids English words like “tent” and “warplane” while starving herself. Her essay Gaza’s Last Call is a plea for justice, not pity. 🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Quadcopters bomb grazing donkeys. Soldiers shoot them for sport. Others are stolen and sent abroad. Israel calls this “rescue.” In Gaza, it’s the destruction of the last threads of mobility. Report by Mohammad al-Naami. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Two years of genocide have stolen Gaza’s time. For Ghada Abu Muaileq, youth was spent between rumors of peace and the reality of famine, bombings, and aid lines that end in blood. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Ziad Rahbani’s genius was never apolitical. From “Wahdon” to “Tal el Zaatar,” his music, plays, and satire wove art into the fabric of resistance. As Maysaa Ajjan writes, his legacy proves that for Rahbani, art was always a political act. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Israel has turned Gaza’s aid lines into death traps. Families come with hope for flour or beans. They leave blinded, paralyzed, or dead. Since May, Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 people while they waited for food. Report by Sumaya Mohammed. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

It was a real honour and privilege to engage in dialogue with @laythco.bsky.social for @palestinestudies.bsky.social about healthcare in Palestine. Read here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

In conversation with @laythco.bsky.social, Dr. @yipengge.bsky.social exposes Israel’s “choreography of destruction,” a campaign that besieges and empties Gaza’s hospitals, turns them to rubble, and targets the doctors who keep them alive. 🔗 Read here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

"Children are not starving because food is scarce. They are starving because the borders are closed. Because aid is blocked. Because food convoys are targeted... Gaza is not starving. Gaza is being starved. And the world is watching." www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Palestinian activist and teacher Odeh Hathaleen was shot dead by a settler. His body is still being withheld. The killer walks free. Odeh’s story is not the exception -- It is the rule in the West Bank. 🔗 Read the full report: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

“When a student falls unconscious, we just assume they have not eaten for two days. And we move on.” Eman Basher spoke to Dr. Izzedin Shahin, who works while starving, stitching wounds that won’t heal for lack of protein. Read More: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

As Columbia University agrees to a $200 million settlement with the Trump administration, professor Rashid Khalidi slams repression of pro-Palestinian voices at the school and says the institution's leadership seeks to "protect Israel from criticism at all costs."

Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community. 🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem faces censorship, raids, and erasure. In this new policy paper, Rania Elias documents how Israel targets art, history, and memory while Palestinians continue to resist with creativity, courage, and community. 🔗https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657407

@nadinebahour.bsky.social examines how Israel has used hunger as a central tool in its campaign against Gaza, blocking aid, targeting farms and food warehouses, and creating deadly aid sites. Starvation is a calculated weapon of war. Read the policy paper: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Amid bombs and blackout, Malak Hijazi finds refuge in books. From Simone de Beauvoir to Muin Bseiso, she reads to endure, to resist, and to remember. A moving account of life, loss, and literature under siege. Read Malak's diary: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Urgent letter to Pope Leo XIV from Palestinian journalist Hind Shraydeh, writing from occupied Palestine. She pleads for action as Gaza faces mass death, hunger, and the destruction of churches and lives. “Gaza is betrayed by everyone it once trusted.” www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Professor Rashid Khalidi has withdrawn his fall course at Columbia in protest of the university’s deal with the Trump administration & adoption of the IHRA definition. He calls it a surrender of academic freedom and complicity in genocide. His open letter: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

This week we hosted @yara-asi.bsky.social and Bushra Khalidi for a webinar on how Israel's famine is unfolding in Gaza, how it was enabled, and what must be done to address the disaster and its lasting effects. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk1U...

Gaza’s high school students prepare for final exams by candlelight from shelters, under bombardment, grief, and blackout. Others shoulder family burdens after loss. For many, education is not just learning. It is survival. Suha Sami’s full report: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

This week on Palestine Square: voices from Gaza that refuse to be silenced. From the grief and memory of a student writer, to Hebrew graffiti used as a weapon of control, to students preparing for exams in tents and ruins, these are stories of survival, dignity, and resistance🧵

Zohran Mamdani has never shied away from speaking out for Palestine. In a climate where most stay silent, his victory in the NYC mayoral primary marks a major shift. His campaign proves that standing for Palestinian rights can be a winning stance. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Today we honor Professor Walid Khalidi on his 100th birthday! Scholar, teacher, and co-founder of IPS, he shaped global understanding of the Nakba and Palestinian history, and devoted his life to preserving Palestinian memory against erasure. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

“Palestine and the Production of Ignorance” by Muhammad Ali Khalidi traces how US institutions are suppressing knowledge about Palestine through censorship, false narratives, and smear campaigns. A must-read on the war against truth. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

What does it mean to teach, write, and learn under in a time of extreme censorship? Join us for a JPS webinar on July 22 featuring Lara Deeb, Muhannad Ayyash, Rebecca Karl, and Sherene Seikaly in conversation with Nadim Bawalsa. Register here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Israel destroyed Gaza’s printing presses, publishing houses, and bookstores. These were homes to memory, knowledge, and cultural continuity. Ink and manuscripts turned to ash. Presses were silenced mid-sentence. Report by Fatma Al Zahraa Sehwail: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Recognition without rights is not justice. As Western governments symbolically “recognize” Palestine, this essay by Jwan Zreiq asks: what is being recognized, and at whose expense? www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Alaa went to get flour for his family. He came back wrapped in empty flour bags—shot dead by Israeli forces. In this heartbreaking essay, his sister Areej Almashharawi writes about famine, survival, and the cruelty of engineered hunger in Gaza. 🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Israel isn’t just bombing Gaza—it’s arming gangs to sow chaos, starve civilians, and sabotage aid. In this harrowing report, Mohammed al-Naami exposes how the occupation weaponizes collaborators and criminal networks to dismantle Gaza from within. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

An important message and appeal from Rashid Khalidi, IPS-USA President and Board Chairman. For over 60 years, IPS has been the leading institution for independent Palestinian research and publishing. Our essential work needs your support. palestine-studies.networkforgood.com/projects/254...

What does motherhood mean when hospitals are bombed and schoolbags become grave markers? Mohammed Abu Muheisen documents the unbearable weight carried by Gaza’s mothers in a war with no end. 🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Israel has destroyed, bombed, and burned nearly every hospital in Gaza. Mass graves have been found inside medical complexes. Patients, staff, and children were executed or buried alive. Mohammad al-Naami reports from the ground. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Israeli forces forced Palestinian detainees to strip, kneel on freezing floors, branded them, starved them, and unleashed dogs on them. Nurse Lana Abugharbieh heard it all firsthand—and treated their broken bodies in Gaza. Read her testimony: 🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

1/ Ghada Majadli examines how Israel’s systematic targeting of Gaza’s healthcare system has led to mass injuries and amputations, turning disability into a deliberate weapon of war. This policy paper details the genocidal logic behind Gaza’s health crisis.🧵

Israel has cut Gaza off from food, water, and medicine for over two months. With UN agencies warning of famine and mass starvation, its genocidal intent is no longer hidden—it’s policy. Read the full article: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

“You can’t treat burn wounds while the fire is still blazing.” Nurse Lana Abugharbieh recounts her mission in Gaza, where medical care collapsed under siege and bombs. Her message is clear: without a ceasefire, there is no healing. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

“Displacement is an extra limb I carry.” In a searing letter from Gaza, Shaimaa Abulebda captures the weight of exile, the terror of eleven forced displacements, and the grief that reshapes the body and soul. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

“I had to choose who deserved anesthesia and who didn’t.” Dr. Alia Kattan recounts her mission in Rafah during Israel’s invasion, where Gaza’s health care system was so gutted that survival itself had to be triaged. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...