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Oldest research institute & publisher of academic journals, books, databases, & stories on Palestine & the Palestinians. Explore, write, signup: linkin.bio/palestinestudies

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 18h
Today marks the 80th birthday of Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, pioneering Palestinian national, political, and feminist figure, among the most notable women of Palestine and the Arab world. Read her Biography on #PalQuest: www.palquest.org/en/biography...
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Hanan Ashrawi - Politicians (1946 - )
Biography - Hanan Ashrawi is the daughter of Dr. Dawud Mikha’il and Wadi‘a As‘ad; she was born in Nablus where her father was working as a doctor, but her family...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The tools of digital repression “battle-tested” on Palestinians are now being deployed elsewhere. Join us, 7amleh, Adalah Justice Projecct, & Union Theological Seminary in New York for a conversation next week. RSVP: bit.ly/BigTechGenocide
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In Gaza, destroyed homes have become graves. Sojoud Alkhour examines the struggle to bury and mourn Gaza’s martyrs amid the destruction of cemeteries and homes. Read the full article at the link below: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🧵In October 1973, the fourth Arab-Israeli war broke out, marking the first time an Arab military initiative took Israel by surprise after its leadership had dismissed the possibility of such an attack. www.palquest.org/en/overallch...
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October War (6 October 1973 - 27 October 1973)
Event - To break the military and diplomatic stalemate in regard to Israel’s occupation of the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, Egypt and Syria launch...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🧵On 31 October 2011, the State of Palestine became a full member of UNESCO, strengthening its participation in international efforts concerning education, culture, science, and the protection of cultural heritage: www.palquest.org/en/overallch...
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The State of Palestine Becomes Full Member of the UNESCO (5 October 2011 - 31 October 2011)
Event - UNESCO ’s 58-member executive council votes (40 in favor, 4 against, and 14 abstentions) to give the Palestinians preliminary approval to upgrade...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
26 years ago, mass Palestinian protests erupted in response to Israeli killings and oppression in Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied areas after Ariel Sharon entered the area around al-Aqsa Mosque, a deliberately provocative act. Read more on #PalQuest: www.palquest.org/en/highlight...
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The October 2000 Events in Israel
Highlight - The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst - The October 2000 Events were a series of mass protest actions by Palestinians in Israel in early October 2000 to protest Isra...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lilith studies global public health, and when her work turns to Palestine, she knows where to look. IPS has made finding reliable resources easier than ever. 📩 Subscribe to our free newsletter: bit.ly/newsletterIPS #BackToSchoolWithIPS
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Join us for a moderated conversation on Big Tech's complicity in the genocide. The panel will discuss the latest US policies related to the "deadly merger" of the US and Israel's military and what we can do to challenge big tech complicity. Register here: bit.ly/BigTechGenocide
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A Conversation on Big Tech & Genocide
7amleh, IPS & Union Theological Seminary discuss Big Tech's complicity in the genocide, from censorship to AI weaponization. Join us!
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’ve put together a fall syllabus drawn from more than five decades of scholarship in the Journal of Palestine Studies & our digital encyclopedia, PalQuest. Use it to build a course, anchor a thesis, or simply read more deeply this semester. #BackToSchoolWithIPS
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Despite Jerusalem’s centrality to the world, few Western university courses focus on the city’s history. Read the full essay in Jerusalem Quarterly. doi.org/10.70190/jq....
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🧵 Fifteen years ago, François Abou Salem, a foundational figure of modern Palestinian theater, passed away near his home in al-Tira, Ramallah. www.palquest.org/en/biography...
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François Abou Salem - Artists (1951 - 2011)
Biography - François Abou Salem (born François Gaspar) was born on 16 November 1951 in the French town of Provins. He was the son of Loránd Gáspár, a French poet...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧵Fifty years ago today, Fouad Nassar, a prominent Palestinian communist leader and figure in the political and labor movements during the British Mandate, passed away. www.palquest.org/en/biography...
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Fouad Nassar - Revolutionaries and Activists (1914 - 1976)
Biography - Fouad Nassar, son of Nehme Nassar, was born on 28 November 1914 in the Syrian town of Bludan to Palestinian parents who had moved there from their...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your syllabus is missing something. 📖 20% off IPS books until Friday Get your copy: store.palestine-studies.org #BackToSchoolWithIPS
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧵 During August 2026, as the genocide in Gaza continued, Israel remained unaccounted for ongoing bombings, shootings, restrictions on humanitarian aid, and efforts to reshape the Strip The Palestine Chronology has been updated to cover these developments: chronology.palestine-studies.org
Photo:  Palestinians attend a funeral for the remains of 50 people recovered from beneath the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes during the war, in Gaza City, on August 20, 2026. Civil Defense crews continue search and recovery operations for bodies trapped under the rubble. Photo by Bilal Osama\ apaimages
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This semester, Haya is taking us through her campus📚 Studying Palestine? Researching it? Writing about it? Bring us to campus! 📩 Subscribe to our free newsletter for reading lists, calls for writers, and new research from IPS: bit.ly/newsletterIPS #BackToSchoolWithIPS
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧵Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi was a prominent Palestinian educator and intellectual who played a major role in developing education in Palestine during the British Mandate.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Alex Winder’s article “Abu Jilda in Fact and Fiction” delves into the enigmatic figure of Abu Jilda, a notorious outlaw during the early years of British colonial rule in Palestine. Read the full piece on Jerusalem Quarterly: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mariam Bagdady examines how Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour after he called for a “free Palestine” onstage and following pressure from venue owners, including Robert Kraft. Read the full article on Palestine Square below: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🧵Thirty years ago, on 24 September 1996, Israel opened a new entrance to the Western Wall Tunnel in the Old City of Jerusalem, running from the Western Wall towards the Via Dolorosa alongside the Haram al-Sharif compound: www.palquest.org/en/overallch...
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Tunnel Opened by Israel in Old City, Jerusalem; Palestinian-Israeli Clashes (24 September 1996 - 28 September 1996)
Event - Under heavy police guard, Israel undertakes, at Via Dolorosa , a surprise midnight opening of a doorway to a tunnel (the "Western Wall Tunnel" or...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"I would see paramedics leave in an ambulance and return dead." Since March, at least 135 healthcare workers in Lebanon have been killed—many in deliberate double-tap strikes on rescue teams. Nourhan Kazak reports for Palestine Square: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Psst… we know you want to intern with us. 👀 The intern panel at our #BackToSchoolWithIPS orientation is a rapid-fire look at what interning at the Institute for Palestine Studies is actually like + how you can apply this fall semester! 📅 Wednesday, Sept 23 | 2pm ET 🔗 Register bit.ly/IPSOrientation
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🎬 Palestinian cinema has roots in the earliest history of filmmaking: the first known motion-picture footage was shot in Jaffa and Jerusalem in 1897. After the Nakba, Palestinian filmmaking developed in exile and underwent a breakthrough with the emergence of the revolutionary movement in the 1960s.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Scholarship matters. So does how you use it. How do you bring published research into organizing and political education? Sereen Haddad & Haitham Khraishi are here to answer during our #BackToSchoolWithIPS orientation on Wedneday. Built for students. Free for all. Register: bit.ly/IPSOrientation
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ready to write your first paper? 📝 Join us Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 2pm ET for Track 2 of #BackToSchoolWithIPS orientation! Built for students, free for all. Free registration: bit.ly/IPSOrientation
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
80 years ago today, Haifa railway station was bombed by Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary group, as part of its campaign against British infrastructure in Palestine. A 1946 #PalQuest photograph captures the station during the final years of the British Mandate: www.palquest.org/en/media/953...
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Haifa Railroad Station - 20 September 1946 (Photograph)
Historical Media - 20 September 1946 - Imperial War Museum collection - Haifa - The railroad station at Haifa blown up by the Irgun . This was among the first of 67 Irgun attacks on the railway ...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You don't need a byline to write for us. Palestine Square publishes student writing. On Sept. 23, our editors Laura Albast & Laila AlQaddumi, and contributors Marah Abdel Jaber and Yezen Saadah walk through how the process actually goes. Free to attend: bit.ly/IPSOrientation #BackToSchoolWithIPS
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In this firsthand account of the Sabra and Shatila massacre 44 years ago, Zakaria al-Shaikh offers a glimpse of what it was like to witness one of the most harrowing episodes of the Lebanese Civil War. www.palestine-studies.org/sites/defaul...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🧵 A new Biography from #PalQuest explores the life and legacy of Mustafa al-Kurd. Born in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1945, al-Kurd became one of Palestine’s leading musicians and cultural figures: www.palquest.org/en/biography...
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Mustafa al-Kurd - Artists (1945 - 2024)
Biography - Mustafa al-Kurd was born on 20 December 1945 in the Old City of Jerusalem to Darwish al-Kurd and Intisar al-Shawwa. His father owned a shop that sold...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
(1/3) In this article, published in Jerusalem Quarterly, postdoctoral fellow at New York University, Elizabeth Bentley, presents a rhetorical historiography of the last Palestinian crocodile, tracing its circulation across colonial zoological literatures between 1870 and 1935.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Decades of stacking the record on Palestine. Sijil, our monthly membership, keeps it growing. Join Sijil, build the future: sijil.palestine-studies.org
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Amanda Batarseh argues that the struggle is not merely over narration or the right to narrate, but more fundamentally over the production and recognition of knowledge itself. Read the open-access article in the Journal of Palestine Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0377...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An Israeli reservist soldier is suing Toronto-based independent magazine The Grind for $1.3 million over its reporting on events featuring Israeli soldiers. The Grind has stood by its reporting. Yara El Murr for Palestine Square: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Georgios Samaras traces the shifts in far-right Greek political rhetoric on Jews, Israel, and Palestine. Rather than rupture, Samaras argues that these developments reveal continuity: old prejudices reorganized through new alliances, with Gaza as catalyst and alibi. doi.org/10.1080/0377...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're proud to support Aquí Seguimos, an exhibition tracing historical ties between Mexico & Palestine, on view in Baltimore. Join us Oct. 1 for an artist talk with Palestinian playwright Ismail Khalidi & Mexican multimedia artist Edgar Reyes. RSVP at la-sonora.com/events/aqu-s...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Under what law does asking where public money goes get you arrested? Noura Erakat was escorted out a public budget hearing in Palm Beach County in handcuffs yesterday. Nourhan Kazak reports: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🧵Today we remember the 44th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacres. Between 16–18 September 1982, Israeli forces encircled Beirut’s Sabra neighborhood and Shatila refugee camp, established observation posts overlooking the area, and facilitated the entry of Lebanese Phalangist forces.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🧵Sulafa Hijjawi, Palestinian poet, scholar, and militant activist, passed away five years ago today. Born in Nablus in 1934, she became known for her literary translations of Palestinian resistance poetry, bringing Palestinian voices to English-speaking audiences: www.palquest.org/en/biography...
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Sulafa Hijjawi - Revolutionaries and Activists (1934 - 2021)
Biography - Sulafa Hijjawi, daughter of Hassan Hijjawi, was born in Nablus. It is said that the poet Ibrahim Tuqan was the one who named her. She married the...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Palestinian folk songs do more than entertain, they document occupation in real time. Serena Rasoul launches the Palestinian Folk Music Archive: a free digital collection of 800+ songs gathered from Palestinian families everywhere. Yezen Saadah reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Her university withheld her degree last year because she spoke up for Palestine. Now Sereen is at IPS, and we want to invite you to go #BackToSchoolWithIPS. Events, books, and reliable scholarship for your next paper. And keep an eye out for 20% off select books on our website.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧵#PalQuest hosts the digital, interactive version of All That Remains by Walid Khalidi, documenting Palestinian villages depopulated and destroyed in 1948. Among them is al-Lajjun, located in the Jenin sub-district of the Samaria district: www.palquest.org/en/place/168...
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al-Lajjun — اللَجُّون
The village stood on a slightly elevated hill on the southwestern edge of the Marj ibn 'Amir Plain, on the two banks of Wadi al-Lajjun. Jenin as...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Framework for Peace" or blueprint for long-term occupation? On June 26, a trilateral agreement was signed by the U.S., Israel & Lebanon. Nicolas Sawaya examines all 14 articles of the agreement, read the full critical breakdown: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You're looking at 63 years of Palestinian scholarship, documentation, and truth-telling. But this record only survives through people like you. Protect the record. Build the future. Join today: sijil.palestine-studies.org
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Luqman Abu El Foul | لقمان أبو الفول @luqmanabuelfoul.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🧵A new Highlight available on #PalQuest examines the United Kingdom’s role in the Palestine Question between 1917 and 1950, tracing the political, diplomatic, and military policies that shaped Palestine during and after the British Mandate: www.palquest.org/en/highlight...
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The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question, 1917-1950
Highlight - Imperial Design, Sordid End - The British Empire’s military occupation of the Palestine region in 1917–18 ended four hundred years of Ottoman control. The British were assisted by...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We’re launching Sijil ✍🏼 — a monthly membership community sustaining decades of Palestinian scholarship, archives, & voices. IPS has dedicated itself to preserving & expanding the record of Palestine—documenting rich histories, nurturing intellectual life, & honoring the struggles of its people.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
SIJIL (سِجِلّْ) — record. Because the knowledge of Palestine belongs to Palestine and its people. Join actor Adam Bakri, scholar & lawyer Noura Erakat, scholar & editor Sherene Seikaly, & nurse Abeerah Muhammad in sustaining Palestinian research, publishing, and archives. Sijil.Palestine-Studies.org
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How was resistance understood and practiced by a generation of Palestinians consuming a new wave of Palestinian rap, especially one that challenges the neoliberal pacification of their societies? Open-access article from JPS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🧵Five years ago, six Palestinian political prisoners made a historical escape from Israel’s high-security Gilboa Prison after spending 10 months digging a tunnel with their hands and a metal spoon: www.palquest.org/en/overallch...
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Gilbo Prison Escape (6 September 2021 - 21 May 2022)
Event - Six Palestinian prisoners—Zakaria al-Zubaidi (former leader ofal-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin ), Mahmoud Ardah , Yakub Qadri , Munadel...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This review essay of The Phoenix of Gaza virtual reality project and exhibit puts Indigenous studies and Palestine studies, as well as scholars of these fields, into citational and historical conversation around the themes of archives, futurity, history, and colonial epistemology.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On this day, 80 years ago, British authorities uncovered hidden arms dumps in Zionist colonies in Palestine, revealing how militias concealed weapons among settlements. The 1946 photograph on PalQuest documents one such arms cache. Explore the archive on #PalQuest: www.palquest.org/en/media/946...
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Arms Dumps in the Colonies - 2 September 1946 (Photograph)
Historical Media - 2 September 1946 - Imperial War Museum collection - Many of the Zionist colonies had arms dumps hidden among their civilian population and beneath ostensibly civilian installations....
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