The Humanitarian Adventure: A Museum, a Hug, and a call for Action
In 2015, when I moved to Geneva, visiting the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum was on top of my agenda. When I visited, I was impressed, moved, and inspired. It is a wonderfully curated museum, with stories, insights, … Continue reading The Humanitarian Adventure: A Museum, a Hug, and a call for Action
Reclaiming Narratives in A Loveless World
As Palestinians came together last year under the banner of the Unity Intifada, forming a collective front against Israel’s ongoing colonisation, we witnessed some critical shifts in the conversation on Palestine. This shared moment highlighted the inaccuracy of the mainstream narrative … Continue reading Reclaiming Narratives in A Loveless World
How Content Management on Social Media Platforms Impacts Solidarity in the Digital Age
Social media users are directly affected by technology companies’ content management. This session hosts a group of speakers to discuss how content management mistakes by technology companies affect digital solidarity, and the role of digital content and online movies in … Continue reading How Content Management on Social Media Platforms Impacts Solidarity in the Digital Age
Political Economy of Palestine: Critical Perspectives
Why, how, and by whom is development denied in Palestine? Why have over US $ 45 billion in international aid since the 1993 Oslo Accords failed to alter the existing skewed and distorted political and economic frameworks, but instead entrenched … Continue reading Political Economy of Palestine: Critical Perspectives
How the Russia-Ukraine war exposed European hypocrisy over Palestine
As painful as it might sound, the “Ukraine moment” offers Palestinians a strategic opportunity to set the record straight where resistance, refugees, freedom, liberation, political rights and BDS are concerned. This is a strategic opportunity to hold European actors accountable … Continue reading How the Russia-Ukraine war exposed European hypocrisy over Palestine
The Arms Trade to Africa Can Be Opaque: Why This Is Dangerous
While the specific linkages between arms trafficking and insecurity are complex and context-specific, it is clear that illicit transfers to Africa have the potential to rapidly reach countries and regions affected by insecurity and armed violence. Achieving more transparency in … Continue reading The Arms Trade to Africa Can Be Opaque: Why This Is Dangerous
قطاع الأمن الفلسطيني: ترسيخ القمع والسلطوية
يحظى قطاع أمن السلطة الفلسطينية بنصيب الأسد من ميزانيتها، مما يسمح لها بترسيخ حكمها السلطوي والقمعي على الشعب الفلسطيني. يستكشف محلل السياسات ومستشار برامج الشبكة، علاء الترتير، هذا الواقع المقلق ويقدم توصيات لإعادة التفكير في إدارة وحوكمة قطاع الأمن حيث … Continue reading قطاع الأمن الفلسطيني: ترسيخ القمع والسلطوية
The Palestinian Security Sector: Entrenching State Repression
The Palestinian Authority’s security sector receives the largest portion of its budget, allowing it to consolidate its authoritarian and repressive rule over the Palestinian people. Al-Shabaka policy analyst and program advisor, Alaa Tartir, explores this troubling reality and offers recommendations … Continue reading The Palestinian Security Sector: Entrenching State Repression
Liberation Will Not Be Funded: Alternatives to Donor Dependence
What are the structural shifts needed for the emergence of an emancipatory people-led development strategy for Palestinians? How can donor aid and funding be restructured by Palestinians themselves to bring about a solidarity- (not charity-) based funding landscape? And what … Continue reading Liberation Will Not Be Funded: Alternatives to Donor Dependence
Podcast – International Aid to Palestine with Alaa Tartir
In the first episode of Shifting Tides, Elif Zaim and Michael Arnold talk with Dr. Alaa Tartir, Program Advisor to Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network about the political economy of aid to Palestine. They discuss the Oslo Accords, why aid … Continue reading Podcast – International Aid to Palestine with Alaa Tartir
الاقتصاد السياسي للتنمية في فلسطين
وفي حالة فلسطين المحتلة، تُعد مقاربة الاقتصاد السياسي مهمة للغاية في تحليل الوضع الراهن لأنها تكشف وتُبرز عناصر أساسية في تجليات القوة المادية والخطابية المرئية وغير المرئية على حد سواء. وتشدد نهوج الاقتصاد السياسي على أن المقاربات الاقتصادية التي لا … Continue reading الاقتصاد السياسي للتنمية في فلسطين
Political Economy Of Development In Palestine: A Critical Perspective
Political economy is concerned with institutions, relations of power, and social conflict and struggle. A key task of political economy is to historicize and (re)politicize economics, as politics and economics are deeply inter-related and reside in (and emerge from) particular … Continue reading Political Economy Of Development In Palestine: A Critical Perspective
Podcast –Palestinian Securitization vs Liberation with Alaa Tartir
Alaa Tartir joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the internationally-funded Palestinian security forces. Together, they assess the forces’ authoritarian role in sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project and criminalizing Palestinian resistance, shedding light on the recent killing of critic and activist Nizar … Continue reading Podcast –Palestinian Securitization vs Liberation with Alaa Tartir
Nizar Banat killing: The world must stop enabling PA crimes
Following what appears to have been the politically driven assassination of Palestinian activist and critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Nizar Banat, on Thursday, international actors hurried to issue statements of condemnation. It was an ultimate exercise in hypocrisy and insincerity, as … Continue reading Nizar Banat killing: The world must stop enabling PA crimes
الرعاية الأوروبية للسلطوية والاستعمار في فلسطين
لا تعدو رؤية الفاعلين الأوروبيين إلى السلام المدفوع أمنياً أن تكون مجرّد تكرار مبتذل، واستمرار للديناميات الاستعمارية القائمة. الفحص النقدي الدقيق المستمر لأثر التدخلات الخارجية، المقصودة وغير المقصودة، شرط مسبق واضح، إذا ما أراد الفاعلون الأوروبيون كسر حلقة الفشل والإضرار، … Continue reading الرعاية الأوروبية للسلطوية والاستعمار في فلسطين
صحوة شعبية فلسطينية وكبوة أممية
في ظل الصحوة الشعبية الفلسطينية الجارية الآن في الأرض المحتلة، ونشوء ديناميات جديدة، يقودها جيل جديد من الفلسطينيات والفلسطينيين، وجهاتٌ فاعلة سياسية غير تقليدية ومنظمات شبابية وليدة، كيف يمكن أن نقرأ بعض التحرّكات الإقليمية، وخصوصا ما يتعلق بالدور المصري المتجدّد … Continue reading صحوة شعبية فلسطينية وكبوة أممية
Political Economy of Foreign Aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: A Conceptual Framing
Over US$40 billion has been spent by international donors as foreign aid for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip since the Oslo Accord was signed in 1993. This makes Palestinians one of the highest … Continue reading Political Economy of Foreign Aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: A Conceptual Framing
Political Economy of Palestine Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives
This book explores the political economy of Palestine through critical, interdisciplinary, and decolonial perspectives, underscoring that an approach to economics that does not consider the political—a de-politicized economics—is inadequate to understanding the situation in occupied Palestine. A critical interdisciplinary approach to political … Continue reading Political Economy of Palestine Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives
Palestine-Israel: Understanding the Lessons From Recent Escalations
What can we take away from the international response to the escalation, especially in relation to the US, UN, and EU? They all did what they do best: The US continued its unconditional support to Israel, the UN issued statements … Continue reading Palestine-Israel: Understanding the Lessons From Recent Escalations
بيان الكرامة والأمل
لقد أراد الشباب الفلسطيني أن يُدلي بصوته في الانتخابات التي كانت مقررةً في 22 مايو/ أيار الحالي، بيد أن إسرائيل والمجتمع الدولي والقيادة السياسية الفلسطينية التقليدية لم تسمح بانعقادها عبر صناديق الاقتراع. ومع ذلك، يمكن القولُ إنّ شوارع فلسطين (كل … Continue reading بيان الكرامة والأمل
The Unity Intifada – A Manifesto for Dignity and Hope
The 18 May general strike across Palestine, called and led by non-conventional political actors (new emerging youth-led groups), the level of commitment toward this call, the launch of The Dignity and Hope Manifesto, the powerful narrative emerging and featured on mainstream written and televised media … Continue reading The Unity Intifada – A Manifesto for Dignity and Hope
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 