Palestinian resistance has been structured since the British Mandate (1920-1948) through adaptive forms of resistance to colonial repression. The Great Arab Revolt (1936-1939) was the first episode of large-scale popular mobilization, organized through a long general strike, local committees, and community networks. Women’s participation was fundamental during this period, both in social organization and in logistics, information transmission, and sustaining communities in resistance. After the Nakba of 1948 and, later, with the military occupation that began in 1967, new strategies … Read more

  January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorates the victims and highlights the planned mechanisms of systematic oppression. The Holocaust was not a random act, but an organized and bureaucratized process, as historical documentation on the systematic identification and persecution of Jews and other groups by the Nazis shows. This pattern of violence can also be seen in other recent genocides and ethnic cleansing, such as in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Myanmar. During World War II, state technology and administrative systems … Read more