Permission To Narrate

– Edward Said

The late Palestinian scholar, Edward Said, remarked that Palestinians had been denied permission to narrate their history and speak of the day-to-day experiences of life in the margins. Here, we reclaim that permission to narrate our own stories.

2018 Palestine Center Annual Conference: Panel 1

Panelists Josh Ruebner, Lamis Deek, and Zena Agha address the issues of UNRWA, Activism, Legislation, Right of Return. Accompanying their presentations is a video prepared by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta on the attainable logistics of the right of return.

Why did CNN fire a pro-Palestinian commentator?

“Why is it so difficult, if not impossible, to have a candid debate about the grim Israeli-Palestinian catastrophe that prevails in our midst? What stands in the way of our capacity to grasp the undeniable need for justice for Palestinians and the understandable fear of annihilation of the Jews in Israel?”

Education in Palestine

Dr. Abuhiljeh, president of Birzeit University, shares his insights on overcoming the many challenges posed to Palestinian higher education and the lead that Birzeit University has taken in establishing the Right to Education campaign, which has spread to other Palestinian universities. This event was cosponsored by the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF) and the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS).

Teach a Man to Fish

By Rima Kamal

A cliché to be sure, but it is directly relevant to grant making. Most everyone has heard some version of the story that is often attributed to a Chinese folk tale. In this story, a poor man comes across a fisherman just returned from his fishing expedition with a basket full of freshly caught fish.

Watch the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see

From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article was published by The Electronic Intifada on November 2, 2018   “The Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of The Lobby – USA, a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in … Read more

The Discourse on Palestine Is Shifting. Will Concrete Policy Changes Follow?

“Even as Washington churned through a miasma of Brett Kavanaugh lies and horror, a different kind of history was being written more than a thousand miles west. For all who doubted whether the public and political discourse on Palestine and Israel has changed at all, the keynote speakers at the national conference of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights in St. Paul, Minnesota proved them wrong.”