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When you support IPS-USA, you help sustain independent research, publishing, and documentation-- and ensure Palestinian voices reach millions around the world. Donate today: palestine-studies.networkfor…
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“It didn’t feel like a wedding. It felt like a funeral.”
In Gaza, the promise of a new beginning is often shadowed by the losses of war. In this personal reflection, Alaa Dmeida writes about becoming a bride amid the loss of her fiancé’s mother, the struggle to imagine a shared home amid displacement, and the weight of building a future shaped by war. For many couples in Gaza, love and mourning are inseparable.
Read at Palestine Square at the link below:
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Ibrahim Saïd examines how Israel’s invocation of self-defense operates as a settler-colonial security lexicon that legitimizes conquest, displacement, and the genocide of the Palestinians.
Saïd argues that when decisive victory over the Palestinians proved unattainable, Israel shifted its strategy to conflict management, stabilizing domination through siege, permits and closures, spatial fragmentation, targeted killing, and cyclical punitive campaigns.
Read it in the latest issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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In his book "How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza," @adamjohnsonCHI examines how U.S. mainstream media, particularly liberal and center-left outlets, shaped public perceptions of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and helped justify U.S. political support for Israel.
In this clip from a webinar hosted by IPS in July, Johnson discusses these dynamics and the role of U.S. party politics in the context of Palestine.
"How to Sell a Genocide" has been shortlisted for the 2026 Palestine Book Awards (@palestineawards ).
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We're heading to MESA 2026 in Boston this month @MESA_1966. Here’s where to find us 👇🏽
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ALT This November Find us at MESA Sign up for updates bit.ly/IPSatMESA Boston | November 21-24, 2026 Exhibition Booth A roundtable by the Journal of Palestine Studies MESA Presidents Panel An Evening Honoring Professor Walid Khalidi Palestine Studies Reception
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📚 Booth #59, all conference long.
🕯 An evening honoring Walid Khalidi. Saturday, Nov 21.
🎙 Storytelling, Nakba, and Return (Roundtable sponsored by the Journal of Palestine Studies). Chair: @shereneseikaly. With @mayamikdashi , @AmahlBishara, Nora Barakat and Abdel Razzaq Takriti.
💬Former MESA Presidents Reflect on Major Events in the Last 30 Years featuring IPS-USA President Rashid Khalidi.
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Celebrate 55 years of the Journal of Palestine Studies with us at #MESA2026, join our reception!
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Sliman Mansour brought Jerusalem to life, alleviating it into the realm of the mythic through his now-iconic depictions of the city. Mansour created a new visual language that became embedded in Palestinian collective consciousness, with miniatures and replicas of his formidable pieces strewn across Jerusalemite interiors and beyond.
In this Jerusalem Quarterly piece, Tina Sherwell takes us through Mansour’s journey, foregrounding pivotal moments that have transformed both his art and life.
”The construction of the image of the landscape of the homeland, then, is conditioned through the dialectical processes of the experience of estrangement and exile, memories and loss.
What we witness in Mansour’s oeuvre over the decades are these recurring themes that have contoured his depiction of Jerusalem and the Palestinian landscape in particular; themes that are continually embedded in his paintings and later in the mud works, as is the pervasive sense of loss and melancholy.”
Read the full article via the Jerusalem Quarterly.
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🔥NEW ISSUE: Journal of Palestine Studies 219🔥
In this robust issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies, contributors enrich our understanding of the Palestinian experience—past, present, and future.
Special to this issue is a two-part series titled “Essays on Shami Futures, introduced by Sami Hermez and featuring eight essays that emerged from a 2025 workshop where scholars and writers from across Bilad al-Sham imagined a future liberated from Zionism.
Together, they join the long tradition of Palestinians offering readers “a code for collective Shami liberation, as well as lessons to imagine the way out of the darkness of Zionist genocide in Palestine and settler-colonial violence and expansion in Bilad al-Sham."
In Gratitude and Solidarity,
The JPS Editorial Team
Check out the new issue on the Journal of Palestine Studies.
tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/c…
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Samah Zaqout was eight in 2008 when Israel bombed her family’s home in Gaza. She spent the next decade moving between rented houses and finally went back to a rebuilt home, until Israel destroyed it again. Now her youngest sister is eight, carrying her teddy bear from tent to tent.
Read her testimony: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
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Digital settler colonialism is how platforms extend the erasure of Palestinians from the land to the feed. @dromarzahzah talks to @annarajagopal for Palestine Square about their book 'Terms of Servitude,' AI targeting, and the tech pipeline from Gaza to ICE.
Read: palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
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Beyond standalone articles on digital suppression, no monograph had traced this digital continuum of Zionist imperialism which continues to evolve today.
The book is co-published by @7StoriesPress & The Censored Press (@ProjectCensored)
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Senior lecturers, Nicola Perugini and Shaira Vadasaria discuss the University of Edinburgh’s racial entanglement with the British Empire and settler colonialism in Palestine through the figure of its former chancellor, Arthur James Balfour. The authors call for academic institutions to interrogate, reckon with, and assume accountability for their historical implication in imperialism and Zionist settler-colonial violence.
Read the article on the Journal of Palestine Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.202…
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🧵 On 1 November 1956, Israeli forces began the first Israeli military occupation of the Gaza Strip during the Suez War. They captured Rafah, Gaza City, and Khan Yunis. The occupation ended on 7 March 1957: palquest.org/en/overallchron… 🧵
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Today, Israel is expanding its military-controlled territory beyond the so-called Yellow Line. The shifting boundaries raise serious concerns about the consolidation of Israeli control over Gaza amid the ongoing genocide and international inaction. 🧵
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From the first occupation in 1956 to the expanding control of today, Gaza's history underscores the continuing struggle against occupation and for Palestinian self-determination. Explore this Historical Event on the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question: palquest.org/en/overallchron…
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While people dress up as monsters and line up for horror movies and haunted houses today, some have no choice but to live through horrors that aren't fiction, and have no escape.
Read testimonies from those on the ground, living this reality, at the link below:
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🧵Thirty-five years ago, the Madrid Conference opened what was presented as a new path toward resolving the Palestine question through negotiations. It was the first international conference in which Palestinians formally participated alongside Israelis, and was followed by the 1993 Oslo Agreement. palquest.org/en/highlight/17…
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Thirty-five years after Madrid, Palestine has not moved toward greater territorial continuity or independence. Instead, Palestinians continue to face genocide, dispossession, forced displacement, settlement expansion, and the fragmentation and shrinking of their land. 🧵
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This #PalQuest Highlight traces the Madrid Conference, Oslo Agreement, and the decades that followed.palquest.org/en/highlight/17…
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