Palestine Narrative

The 1936-1939 Uprising was a Palestinian uprising against British colonial rule and Zionist immigration, beginning with a general strike that evolved into armed resistance, resulting in British repression, significant Palestinian casualties, and ultimately forcing British policy changes.

refers to the systematic adoption, rebranding, and commodification of Palestinian cultural elements—such as traditional cuisine, attire, folk dances like dabke, music, art, and historical narratives, by Israel as part of its national identity, effectively erasing or delegitimizing Palestinian indigeneity and heritage. This practice, often described as "cultural theft" and is integrated into broader strategies of memoricide.

A derogatory portmanteau of "Palestine" and "Hollywood," coined in the early 2000s by pro-Israel advocates to accuse Palestinians of staging, fabricating, or exaggerating scenes of injury, death, or suffering—such as bombings, civilian casualties, or humanitarian crises in Gaza and the West Bank—for media consumption

The ongoing process of seizing Palestinian agricultural land, natural resources, and homes to expand illegal, racially exclusive settlements, directly destroying the basis for a Palestinian state and life.

The colonial structure built to annex Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, effectively creating ghettos and isolated enclaves while enforcing a system of racial segregation and restriction of movement for the indigenous population.

The official destructive Israeli military strategy that mandates the use of disproportionate and overwhelming force against Lebanese civilian infrastructure and entire urban centers to inflict collective punishment and destroy the social base of resistance, a documented war crime.

The intentional, ongoing campaign of mass killings, forced starvation, and the systematic destruction of life in the Gaza Strip, constituting a genocidal assault on the Palestinian people as a continuation of the 1948 Nakba.

The overarching strategic and principled commitment to actively challenge and oppose the occupation to achieve self determination, freedom, and human rights. It is defined primarily by its political, diplomatic, and popular forms, including organized protest and international advocacy, as a means of legitimate national liberation.

The profound and deeply ingrained cultural, political, and personal commitment to remain on the land of Palestine, actively defying policies of displacement, occupation, and erasure. It is the core, non-violent form of resistance, expressed through everydayacts like cultivating land, building a home despite demolition threats, and maintaining cultural life.

Introduced by Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls and refers to the extreme, intentional destruction of Palestinian women's and girls' lives, bodies, and reproductive capacities in Gaza—not as collateral damage of war, but as a deliberate genocidal tool targeting them with acts including systematic killings, sexual and gender-based violence, attacks on maternity and fertility services, and siege conditions exacerbating malnutrition and health system collapse to prevent births and ensure generational erasure.