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Contrasting Narratives of Palestinian Identity
Khalidi argues that Palestinian identity is shaped by uncertain boundaries, overlapping histories, and constant negotiation with others, especially Israel, Arab neighbors, and broader narratives of Arabism, Islam, and Zionism. Rather than being defined solely by territory or chronology, Palestine emerges through relationships with competing \"others,\" as argued by Stuart Hall and Edward Said. Palestinians have experienced unusually intense pulls from transnational, local, familial, and national loyalties because they have never achieved full sovereignty in their homeland. Lacking an independent state, they have been denied consistent control over institutions--education, media, archaeology, and symbols--that typically consolidate national identity. Partial exceptions, such as the PLO's presence in Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority after the 1990s accords, remained non-sovereign and constrained. Palestinians thus resemble other peoples denied self-determination after WWI, notably the Kurds and Armenians, though these groups have since gained more autonomy or statehood. Studying Palestinian identity therefore illuminates processes of nation formation, fragmentation, and contested narratives, both within the Middle East and beyond.
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The Journal of Palestine Studies in the Twenty-First Century: An Editor's Reflections
The Journal of Palestine Studies is celebrating fifty years of uninterrupted publication as the journal of record on Palestinian affairs since its founding in 1971. Historian, book author, and Columbia University's Edward Said Chair of Middle East Studies, Rashid Khalidi, has been at the helm as editor for almost two decades. In this article, he reflects on the Journal's role in knowledge production on Palestine from a number of vantage points: the situation that obtained at the Journal's founding when Palestinians simply did not have \"permission to narrate\" their own story in the Western public sphere; the evolution of the academic universe in the United States and its eventual embrace of disciplines, such as race, gender, Indigenous, and Palestine studies, once considered marginal or fringe; and the concomitant and virulent Zionist campaign to tar speech critical of Israel and the Zionist project with the brush of anti-Semitism, whether in the media, politics, or academia.
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And Now What? The Trump Administration and the Question of Jerusalem
U.S. policy on the Middle East, in general, and on Palestine, in particular, witnessed a seismic shift in the closing days of 2017: the U.S. president announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and to move the U.S. embassy there. While it came as a shock, the announcement was not a complete surprise: in fact, this essay argues, the decision is in line with a long history of bias in Israel’s favor, and constitutes the abandonment of the earlier U.S. pretense of impartiality. The Jerusalem decision is part of what has been termed an “outside-in” approach to the conflict, whereby U.S. client states in the region gradually normalize relations with Israel and accept standard Israeli positions, while simultaneously pressuring the Palestinians to make further concessions to Israel. Taking into account the new international environment, and the equally deep shifts in U.S. public opinion, this commentary also explores the possible formulation of a new strategy to advance Palestinian aspirations for liberation and a just peace.
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Settler
This essay takes a comparative perspective, looking at both Ireland and Palestine in order to assess the term \"settler.\" It argues that the planting of settlers in Ireland and Palestine was intended by Britain to subjugate their peoples and take control of their land, while providing a loyal local garrison for the colonial power, all of this under the rubric of a noble \"civilizing\" mission to tame and uplift the natives. Stripped of its ideological baggage, and placed in context, whether that of Ireland, North America, or Palestine, the term \"settler\" reeks of aggression toward, and disdain for, the native.
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