I argue in this Commentary: 🟥 Alarmingly, the new wave of the nominal statehood recognition does not recognize the Palestinians themselves: the people and their individual and collective rights.🟨 The new wave of recognitions of the State of Palestine is largely driven … Continue reading Recognizing Palestine, Unrecognizing Palestinians
After nearly three decades of their existence, neither the Palestinian Authority (PA) nor the internationally-adopted and sponsored Oslo framework, brought the Palestinian people any closer to realizing their inalienable right to self-determination. In fact, these decades of peace and state … Continue reading Assessing the Oslo Accords through a Security Lens
The First MOOC on Palestine on Coursera is Available Now! Sign Up for Free. Please Share and Spread the Word – Knowledge Is Power! After a 5-year journey, our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Contemporary Palestinian History is LIVE … Continue reading MOOC on Contemporary Palestinian History – Coursera
Reimagining Palestine Public Lecture Series | Resisting Domination in Palestine: International Aid, Security, and State/Peace Building as Sites of Settler Colonial Control The ongoing social, political, and conceptual struggles of Palestine against a settler-colonial regime reveal a dynamic interplay between … Continue reading Resisting Domination in Palestine
This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism. Based … Continue reading Resisting Domination in Palestine : Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism
Colonization confines indigenous and native peoples, not only spatially but also psychologically. Continuous colonial repression, subjugation, and attempts at erasure redirect the energies of those struggling for liberation to the immediate, and hinder the capacity to imagine possibilities for alternative … Continue reading Breaking Through Colonial Barriers
Three decades on, the Oslo accords framework continues to affect and shape major aspects of Palestinian life and death. Since its inception and adoption, Oslo has created processes, institutions, and arrangements in Palestinian society that have resulted in major structural transformations and deficiencies, particularly … Continue reading Oslo Accords: Thirty Years of Peace Distortion
Since the Oslo I Accord was signed in 1993, international donors have expended more than $50bn in foreign aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). That funding has been channelled through a western development model that was designed, at least on the surface, to foster Palestinian economic and … Continue reading Palestine: How Western Aid Enables Israel’s Colonialism
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
As in the waves of anger that erupted in October 2015 and July 2017, the current popular action in Jerusalem represents resistance politics in its most vibrant form. Such collective actions present a challenge to authorities and elites, and to their claims of … Continue reading Jerusalem protests: Palestine’s new generation rises up
TRT World Forum 2020’s Expert Roundtable Session ”The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Israel’s Engagement with Arab States. 1 December 2020. Alaa Tartir’s intervention between minutes 1.21 and 1.25 Continue reading TRT World Forum 2020-The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & Israel’s Engagement with Arab States
Theodor Herzl, the father of Israel’s foundational Zionist ideology, once said, “If I wish to substitute a new building for an old one, I must demolish before I construct”. Recent examples of Herzl’s colonial paradigm of displacement and replacement include … Continue reading Peace in Palestine cannot be achieved amid unlawful demolitions
Since the Oslo I Accord was signed in 1993, more than $40bn has been spent by international donors as foreign aid for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. As long-time analysts, we have … Continue reading It’s Time to Rethink the Structure of Palestinian Aid
As of 23 July, persons entering Switzerland from the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) are legally mandated to go into quarantine. The OPT is now identified as a country or area with an increased risk of coronavirus infection. This prompted a Swiss friend … Continue reading Covid-19 has become the last injustice made to Palestine
The Palestinian politcal leadership’s obsession with the idea of statehood as a means to realize self-determination and freedom has proved to be detrimental to the struggle of decolonizing Palestine. In a recent article, Alaa Tartir argued that by prioritizing ‘statehood under … Continue reading Webinar: “What is a State without the People?”: Statehood Obsession and Denial of Rights in Palestine
The Palestinian political leadership’s obsession with the idea of statehood as a means to realise self-determination and freedom has proved to be detrimental to the struggle of decolonising Palestine. By prioritising “statehood under colonialism” instead of focusing on decolonising Palestine … Continue reading “What is a State without the People?”: Statehood Obsession and Denial of Rights in Palestine
Outsourcing Repression is a collection of analyses and essays on the roots, manifestations and consequences of the paradigm of security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). The book discusses four key themes: the evolution and reform of Palestinian security … Continue reading Outsourcing Repression: Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination
Since the onset of the Oslo Accords, Israel has steadily privatized its security apparatus. Rather than deny this process, the government has boasted of it, pointing to the accuracy of its intelligence services, the precision of its weapons, and the … Continue reading Book Review – The Privatization of Israeli Security
Despite Israel’s flagrant violations of international law and the stark failure of the formal Palestinian leadership to address the aspirations of the Palestinian people, the transformative potential of a mobilised, resourceful and resilient people should not be overlooked. Co-written with … Continue reading How local resistance challenges power structures in Palestine
Alaa Tartir discusses his new edited anthology: Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance. A new look into how international aid and also the Palestinian security reform are mechanisms which are used to crush Palestinian resistance to … Continue reading Palestine and Rule of Power
This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance. The project considers expressions of the rule of power in two particular ways: settler colonialism and neoliberalism. … Continue reading Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 