Palestinian resistance

Israeli soldiers operate with their armored vehicles in the West Bank city of Jenin, March 4, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israel’s designs for Jenin refugee camp are about more than just destruction

After being expelled from their homes, residents watch from afar as the army re-engineers the camp to inhibit resistance and undermine the right of return.

By Majd Jawad April 16, 2025

Palestinians and Israelis protest against Netanyahu's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, Tel Aviv, June 6, 2020. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

Grappling with Jewish fears in a just Palestinian struggle

Recognizing Zionism’s settler-colonial nature shouldn’t prevent us from reimagining a collective Jewish existence in this land, or taking seriously the fears that are weaponized to justify Palestinian subjugation.

By Haggai Matar November 26, 2024

Screengrab from "Lyd." (Courtesy of the directors)

A Lyd without the Nakba

Merging documentary with sci-fi, a new film narrates the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian city in 1948, and imagines what it would look like if the war never happened. So the Israeli government banned it from being screened.

By Dikla Taylor-Sheinman October 25, 2024

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Israeli military forces seen during an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, September 2, 2024. (Flash90)

Inside the brutal siege of Jenin

The Israeli army is destroying civilian infrastructure, blocking medical access, and conducting mass arrests in its largest West Bank operation in years.

By Mariam Barghouti September 4, 2024

Activists demonstrate in support of Palestinian resistance, and against collective punishment imposed Israel and the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Paris, France February 3, 2023. (Anne Paq)

Rethinking philanthropy in the fight for Palestinian liberation

Organizations working to uphold Israeli apartheid enjoy vastly greater funds than the Palestine movement. How can progressives mobilize more resources?

By Rebecca Vilkomerson and Deborah Sagner February 17, 2023

Visitors browse the exhibitions at documenta fifteen, Kassel, Germany, June 19, 2022. (Dr. Hans-Günter Wagner/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Uniting behind Palestinians, German art festival hits back at antisemitism charges

Curators and artists at the renowned documenta fifteen exhibition faced a torrent of denunciations, including from German officials, for hosting Palestinian collectives and exhibits on Palestine solidarity.

By Hebh Jamal October 24, 2022

Palestinian mourners attend the funeral one a fighter killed by Israeli forces in Jenin, occupied West Bank, September 28, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

In Jenin and Nablus, resistance and despair go hand in hand

Palestinian youths are taking up arms amid unrelenting Israeli incursions into refugee camps, with the pervasiveness of death ensuring more will follow.

By Yuval Abraham October 5, 2022

Thousands of Palestinians rally in solidarity with the hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, Nelson Mandela Square, Ramallah, West Bank, May 03, 2017. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills)

What lessons can Palestinians really take from the struggle of Black South Africans?

With comparisons growing between Israeli and South African apartheid, we must consider the different strategies adopted by both resistance movements.

By Ran Greenstein September 11, 2022

Palestinian gunmen take part in the funeral of two Palestinians who were shot dead by Israeli security forces, during their funeral in Jenin, in the West Bank, March 31, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

How a resurrected militia is defying Israeli and Palestinian rulers

In Jenin and Nablus, members of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades are uniting with other factions to challenge Israel and the Palestinian Authority, as more young fighters from refugee camps take up the mantle of armed resistance.

By Fatima AbdulKarim and Dalia Hatuqa August 11, 2022

Palestinians climb over the Israeli Separation Wall to attend the Friday prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the town of Al-Ram, West Bank, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, July 3, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

How Palestinian resistance tore down the Green Line long ago

Israel's consolidation of a single regime unwittingly enabled Palestinians to rebuild their national fabric between the river and the sea. Now, despite their physical dispersal, Palestinians have never been more connected.

By Amjad Iraqi August 10, 2022

British soldiers clear an improvised roadblock during the Arab Revolt. (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi archives)

The imperial roots of ‘shrinking the conflict’

Long before Israel paved segregated road networks to maintain the separation of Jews and Palestinians, the British had already laid their foundations.

By Shira Pinhas May 17, 2022

Israeli security forces in front of the Dome of the Rock during clashes with Palestinian protestors on the holy month of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa mosque Compound in Jerusalem's Old City, April 15, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

The scars of May still haven’t healed

For all the anticipation of another uprising, Palestinians have yet to recover from the last one — because Israeli violence never stopped.

By Amjad Iraqi April 21, 2022

A Palestine solidarity activist hoists the Palestinian flag as demonstrators move to block an Israeli-owned ship at the Port of Oakland, in protest of Israel's aggressions, June 4, 2021. (Brooke Anderson)

How Palestinian resistance inspired a new generation of labor activism

Israel’s latest assault on Gaza has prompted US labor unions to mobilize at unprecedented levels, further establishing Palestinian rights as a core component of progressive politics.

By Alex Kane August 31, 2021