News & Analysis – Palestine Square

Exclusive: Are U.S. Newspapers Biased Against Palestinians? Analysis of A Hundred Thousand Headlines Says Yes

January 9, 2019 Dorgham Abusalim

With the growth of the Palestine solidarity movement, the question is whether these and other news agencies will continue to tarnish their record by disregarding the facts about Palestine.

United Nations Inaction and the Gaza Crisis: Ten Years ago and Today

January 9, 2019 Phyllis Bennis

Ten years since Operation Cast Lead and UN obligations remain unfulfilled.

An Error of Omission: The Congressional Research Service and Israeli Settlements

December 21, 2018 Andrew Wickersham

Faulty Congressional Research Service reporting reveals bias against Palestinians.

U.S.-Mexico Border: An Israeli Tech Laboratory

December 6, 2018 Brittany Dawson

“They all loved the state/corporate idea of fusing Mexican low-wage manufacturing with Israeli boundary building and homeland security companies.”

How Brazil’s Bolsonaro Foreign Policy Will Impact Palestine

November 15, 2018 Fernando Brancoli

The population that identifies itself as evangelical has grown more than 60% in Brazil, and has become one of the most important political forces in the country.

The Multiple Dimensions of the Palestinian Crisis

November 1, 2018 Hani Al-Masri

All of these developments reveal that Palestinians are facing an unprecedented crisis. What is desperately needed is a national vision that would overcome the polarization and produce a united, consensual, and democratic electoral process.

Gaza’s Status Quo Unlikely to Change

October 22, 2018 Tareq Baconi

Three crucial developments today are testing an equilibrium of belligerence that has shaped relations between Hamas and Israel for the past eleven years.

How Bolton’s Strategies toward Palestine Could backfire at World Court

October 18, 2018 Victor Kattan

A favorable ICJ decision in Palestine v. United States of America would be more significant than the Court’s 2004 Advisory Opinion on the Wall because it would be binding on the United States.

What the Closure of the PLO Office in Washington Really Means

October 10, 2018 Dorgham Abusalim

In shuttering the General Delegation of the PLO to the U.S., the Trump administration has cut off any U.S. citizen, including Palestinian-Americans, from engaging with Palestine at the institutional level.

The Sabra and Shatila Massacre: New Evidence

September 25, 2018 Rashid Khalidi

More than 36 years after these tragic events, the Institute for Palestine Studies hopes that by making public these documents, it can help those who wish to shed light on them, and thereby honor the memory of those who lost their lives in Sabra and Shatila