Samer Anabtawi is a PhD candidate at the George Washington University studying comparative politics and social movements.
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The Karameh (Dignity) Strike paralyzed several sectors of the Israeli economy and resulted in millions of dollars in economic losses.
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The protests culminated in a large-scale general strike on May 18 that Palestinians all across historical Palestine observed. Thousands of Palestinians in the so-called mixed cities of Lydd, Ramla, Nazareth, Yafa, and the Naqab, among others, took to the streets asserting their Palestinian identity and solidarity with Jerusalem. Then, violent repression of Jerusalem’s demonstrations spurred a broader protest movement in the West Bank, Israel, and neighboring Jordan in a spectacular show of unity.
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Israel’s planned expulsion of thirteen Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem and police violence against worshippers at both the Al-Aqsa mosque and Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate on May 10, 2021, sparked a series of daily protests and sit-ins throughout the city. What emerges from a still unsettled picture is a renewed sense of unity among Palestinians across divided geographies and the activation of dormant ties with the diaspora. But for all the gruesome familiarity of what unfolded last month, something very dramatic occurred that may eventually have more profound consequences: the recent wave of Palestinian protests, which could be a harbinger of fundamental transformations in the Palestinian national movement. The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas occurred exactly as expected, ruining lives but leaving the region’s politics unchanged. If there is one lesson for diplomacy from the past month’s events, it is to take such depictions as seriously as his audiences do.
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Palestinian composer and pianist Faraj Suleiman’s song “Questions on My Mind” describes a reality for Palestinians that includes daily struggles, neighborhood brawls, and gritty realities of dealers, collaborators, and jail time-quite different from the reality with which diplomats have been dealing.