Popular Resistance in Palestine

Qumsiyeh, Mazin B.

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“…By contrast, public opinion polls have shown that Palestinians oppose violence when diplomacy is considered effective (Shikaki 2006). Numerous studies dedicated to nonviolent forms of collective resistance emphasize this view (Awad 1984;Sharp and Safieh 1987;Bakan and Abu-Laban 2009;Chenoweth and Stephan 2011;Qumsiyeh 2011; Darweish and Rigby 2015; see Pearlman 2011 for a comparison of violent and nonviolent resistance). In contrast to their large-scale mobilization during the intifadas, Palestinians have however refrained from similar mass uprisings over the last decade.…”

Section: The Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exit, Voice, Loyalty … or Deliberate Obstruction? Non-Collective Everyday Resistance under Oppression.

Dornschneider¹

2021

Perspect. polit.

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In highly oppressive environments, collective resistance is very costly. Non-collective resistance constitutes a less risky alternative. Focusing on a particular oppressed setting, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, I identify everyday forms of non-collective resistance: signaling, persevering, eschewing, and coping. Characterized by low visibility and targeting political goals indirectly, these activities have not yet been recognized as forms of resistance. However, they constitute important resistance efforts that deliberately obstruct oppressive regimes. These efforts show that individuals who are not visibly resisting their rulers cannot be assumed to be loyal or to suffer from a barrier of fear, as often suggested by theories in politics. They also offer an important addition to theories that identify violence as a common response to oppression, suggesting that peaceful non-collective activities constitute an everyday alternative.

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Section: The Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exit, Voice, Loyalty … or Deliberate Obstruction? Non-Collective Everyday Resistance under Oppression.

Dornschneider¹

2021

Perspect. polit.

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“…Thus effective strategies of mass civil disobedience in the first intifada (1987-93) encompassed both street confrontations between Palestinians and the Israeli army and an 'economic war' designed to strike at the heart of the Israeli economy through boycotting Israeli goods and jobs and refusing to pay taxes. The cost to Israel was huge: in the first three months alone, government revenues dropped by 30 per cent (compared to the same period the previous year) and exports to the oPt declined by 40 per cent, 79 Furthermore, the withdrawal of Palestinian workers from their jobs in Israel, estimated to lie anywhere between 20-40 per cent, led Israel's minister of finance to conclude that 'ending the uprising is one of the top priorities for the Israeli economy'. 80 In response, everyday life for Palestinians was disrupted (and suspended for those jailed) as Israel sought to crush the resistance by curfews, arrests and direct military violence.…”

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Peacebuilding as counterinsurgency in the occupied Palestinian territory

Turner¹

2014

Rev. Int. Stud.

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It is often suggested that Western peacebuilding in the occupied Palestinian territory has failed because it has not delivered a viable Palestinian state. But if peacebuilding is reinterpreted as a form of counterinsurgency whose goal is to secure a population, then it has not failed – in fact, on the contrary, it has been quite successful. This article therefore critically evaluates the idea and practice of peacebuilding as counterinsurgency by exploring the symbiosis in the philosophy and methods of COIN and peacebuilding, and charts its implementation in the oPt through the realms of governance, development, and security. It argues that peacebuilding in this context operates as another layer of pacification techniques whose goal is to secure the Palestinian population and ensure acquiescence in the face of violent dispossession.

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“…63 Examples of other organisations gaining ground in Sweden are Ship to Gaza, attempting to reach Gaza with ships sailing across the Meditarrenean, or local branches of the international network Samidoun, describing themselves as anti-imperialist and with the prime focus on Palestinian prisoners. In Sweden, the globalised Boycot Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement 64 is loosely organised, driven by the Palestine Group. It hasn't been able to attract widespread support, although there are occasional debates concerning a boycott reaching deeper in Swedish society.…”

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Bridging identities through activism: Palestinians in Sweden navigating the transnational divide

Lindholm

2021

Conflict, Security & Development

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This article deals with the ways in which diaspora communities use activism, transnational political engagements and mobilisation in order to create and sustain identities and navigate in the transnational space of being neither 'here' nor 'there'. Through an exploration of how Palestinians in Sweden use activism as a way to navigate their situation in between Palestine and Sweden, it is shown that transnational activism and social mobilisation are means of managing, meaning-making, mediating and negotiation vulnerable and complicated position between places and identities. Using narrative material collected through interviews with Palestinians in Sweden, this article unveils the relationship between conflict, activism and identity formation and how tensions, struggles and contestations inform that interlinkage. The article explores those relationships through investigating the case of the Palestinian community in Sweden and its narrated experiences of conflict and activism through the lens of the former homeland as well as the new or current country of residence. The study aims to deepen our understandings of the profound meaning of solidarity with a homeland lost as well as to a deeper understanding of the Palestinian diaspora in the Global North.

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Popular Resistance in Palestine

Cited by 11 publications

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Exit, Voice, Loyalty … or Deliberate Obstruction? Non-Collective Everyday Resistance under Oppression.

Exit, Voice, Loyalty … or Deliberate Obstruction? Non-Collective Everyday Resistance under Oppression.

Peacebuilding as counterinsurgency in the occupied Palestinian territory

Bridging identities through activism: Palestinians in Sweden navigating the transnational divide

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