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Biographies

Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
Hisham Sharabi
1927 - 13 January 2005
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Naji al-Ali
1936 - 29 August 1987
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

Event
Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)
1917 - 1921
Event
White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration
3 June 1922
Event
White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall
19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928
Event
1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
26 October 1929
Event
John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development
2 May 1930
Event
Hope-Simpson Report Is Published
22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930
Event
White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published
20 October 1930
Event
MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann
13 February 1931
Event
The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Denounces MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann
11 March 1931
Event
Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme
19 July 1931 - April 1932
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Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37
31 August 1933
Event
Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission
4 January 1938
Event
The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem
13 January 1938
Event
Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
October 1938 - September 1939
Event
MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians
17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939
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The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Event
21st Zionist Congress Meets in Geneva
16 August 1939 - 25 August 1939
Event
Stern Gang Calls for Alliance with Axis
October 1939
Event
Land Transfers Regulations
20 February 1940
Event
Five-year Limit on Jewish Immigration Extended
November 1943
Event
British Recommend Partition
December 1943
Event
Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism
1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945
Event
Palestinians Declare Strike to Protest Bevin's Policy Statement of November 1945
February 1946
Event
Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks
17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946
Event
US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition
18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948
Event
The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel
15 May 1948
Event
The US Recognizes Israel on a de jure Basis
31 January 1949
Event
UNRWA Signs Agreement with Jordan as Refugee Host Country
14 March 1951 - 20 August 1951
Event
The US and Jordan River Waters
25 June 1954 - 6 July 1954
Event
US Withdraws Aswan Funding
19 July 1956
Event
Appointment of Special Representative of the UNCCP
24 August 1961
Event
Proposals Announced by Joseph Johnson, Special Representative of the UNCCP
31 August 1962
Event
Israeli and Arab Responses to Joseph Johnson's Proposals
5 October 1962 - 17 October 1962
Event
Israel Prepares for War with US Consent
2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967
Event
June War, 6th Day
10 June 1967
Event
US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Principles for Peace in the Middle East
19 June 1967
Event
A Probable Israeli Nuclear Test Explosion in the Ocean near South Africa
22 September 1979
Event
Dial 1-202-456-1414
13 June 1990
Event
Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation
13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000
Event
Israeli and Palestinian Response to the Clinton Proposals
28 December 2000 - 3 January 2001
Event
Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks
7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001
Event
US Response to the Israeli Invasion
4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002
Event
Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map
2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004
Event
Mahmoud Abbas's First Visit to White House as PA President
26 May 2005
Event
The US to Strengthen Security Forces Loyal to Abbas
14 December 2006 - 5 January 2007
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: A Disappointing Abbas-Bush Meeting
24 April 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 10; Gaza Strip Segmented into 3 Operational Zones
5 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 14
9 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks
10 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 17
12 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 18
13 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 20
15 January 2009
Event
Israel Approves a Major Settlement Plan in Gilo, East Jerusalem
17 November 2009
Event
President Obama Meets Netanyahu and Pushes the Palestinians for Direct Talks with Israel
6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010
Event
Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington
1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010
Event
US Makes Incredible Offer to Israel in Exchange for a Two-Month Partial Settlement Freeze
29 September 2010 - 12 December 2010
Event
John Kerry Conducts Shuttle Diplomacy for Resumption of Negotiations
4 March 2013 - 8 May 2013
Event
Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative
29 April 2013
Event
Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds
23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013
Event
Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry
28 July 2013
Event
Launch of Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Direct Negotiations in Washington
29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013
Event
Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Take Place in Jerusalem
14 August 2013 - 2 September 2013
Event
Israeli-Palestinian Talks Accelerate for Nothing
25 September 2013 - 23 October 2013
Event
Israel's Settlement Expansion Disrupts the Palestinian Negotiation Team
31 October 2013 - 13 November 2013
Event
Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement
14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014
Event
Abbas Meeting with Kerry in Paris Ends in Total Failure
19 February 2014 - 21 February 2014
Event
Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations
15 March 2014
Event
Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners
17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014
Event
25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait
25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014
Event
Settlement Announcement in the Midst of a Crisis Regarding the Negotiations
1 April 2014
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction
20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20
23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: The Intermittent Cease-Fires (Phase III)
31 July 2014 - 26 August 2014
Event
The PLO Strives for a Security Council Resolution Specifying a Timetable for Ending the Occupation
26 September 2014 - 28 November 2014
Event
Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel
10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014
Event
Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?
22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015
Event
The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba
21 February 2016
Event
Palestinians Thwart the Setting Up of Cameras at Haram al-Sharif
18 March 2016 - 18 April 2016
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Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace
28 December 2016
Event
First Trump Administration Statement on Israeli Settlements
2 February 2017
Event
The Israeli Knesset Passes a Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively
6 February 2017
Event
First Phone Contact Between Trump and Abbas
10 March 2017 - 12 March 2017
Event
PLO President Mahmoud Abbas Meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House
3 May 2017
Event
Trump Signs the 6-Month Waiver Delaying the Application of the Jerusalem Embassy Act
1 June 2017
Event
White House Statement on Israeli Settlement Activity
5 July 2017
Event
Trump Peace Negotiating Team to Travel to Middle East
15 June 2018 - 24 June 2018
Event
Dissolution of the Knesset; Three Election Rounds to Form a Government in Israel
26 December 2018 - 11 December 2019
Event
The US Recognizes the Golan Heights as Part of Israel
21 March 2019 - 25 March 2019
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US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ Plan and Conference
22 June 2019 - 26 June 2019
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US Officials Partake in Inauguration of Large-Scale Settler Project in East Jerusalem
30 June 2019
Event
Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected
10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019
Event
Trump Administration Presents Peace Plan
28 January 2020
Event
Inconclusive Results of Elections for the Knesset in Israel
2 March 2020 - 17 May 2020
Event
Ceremony of Normalization between UAE and Bahrain, and Israel
15 September 2020

Historical Texts

Document
Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
Document
Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929
12 March 1930
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Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann
13 February 1931
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
Document
Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Document
Land Transfers Regulations, 1940
20 February 1940
Document
Biltmore Conference Declaration
11 May 1942
Document
Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on the Occasion of the Entry of the Arab Armies in Palestine
15 May 1948
Document
Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
Document
Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
14 March 1951
Document
Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East
19 June 1967
Document
Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
26 March 1979
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations
29 April 1994
Document
Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/6
9 February 1999
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East
24 June 2002
Document
President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007
Document
Joint Understanding Between Israel and the PLO Read by President Bush
27 November 2007
Document
President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
10 January 2008
Document
Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
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Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
Document
President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy
19 May 2011
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel
6 December 2017
Document
Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People
19 July 2018
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
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President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel
25 March 2019
Document
Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates
13 August 2020

Highlights

Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
Highlight
The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948
The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
Highlight
The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
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The Second Intifada, 2000-2005
Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations
Highlight
Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
Highlight
Palestinian Embroidery
A Rich and Diverse National Heritage
Highlight
France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993
Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement
Highlight
The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
Highlight
The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
Highlight
The Palestinians in Chile
A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine
Highlight
Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
The Palestinian Flag
A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity
Highlight
X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority
1993-2000
Highlight
Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
Highlight
XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks
2006-2017
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
The Palestinians in Sweden
Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses
Highlight
June 1967 War
A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Highlight
The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Perpetuating the Temporary
Highlight
The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
Highlight
China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
Highlight
Fawwar Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
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Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
Highlight
Palestine and International Justice
The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology
Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations
2013 - 2014

Historical Media

Document
Palestine: A Homeland Denied
1979