IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
The use of nonviolent means by Palestinians to defend their rights, land, and livelihoods has a long and diverse history. It goes back more than a hundred years and continues up until today. More often than not, Palestinian nonviolence has been met with a violent response, first by British authorities, and then by Israel. In recent years, another major nonviolent Palestinian initiative has been the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).
Fact Sheets
The Palestinian “Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the mass expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from British Mandate Palestine during Israel’s creation (1947-49). The Nakba was not an unintended result of war. It was a deliberate and systematic act necessary for the creation of a Jewish majority state in historic Palestine, which was overwhelmingly Arab prior to 1948.
on April 5, 2023
Palestinian-American Profiles
Palestinian-American Alex Odeh was a passionate defender of Palestinian human rights and advocate of inter-faith unity between Jews, Muslims, and Christians, a loving husband and father, and a talented poet.
on April 2, 2021
Sharp, funny Palestinian writer Suad Amiry has won one of Italy's Nonino prizes along with Portuguese novelist Antonio Lobo Antunes, Italian psychiatrist Giuseppe Dell'Acqua, and French philosopher Michel Serres - for "her work to promote peace."
on January 14, 2014
Fact Sheets
The First Intifada was a large-scale popular uprising launched by Palestinians in 1987 against Israel's then 20-year-old military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
on December 16, 2012