Popular Protest in Palestine

Palestinian Popular Resistance provides an overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil (popular) resistance in the Palestinian national movement. The main focus is on the contemporary popular resistance movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), but it is prefaced by a historical review of how there has always been a thread of unarmed civil resistance throughout the history of the Palestinian liberation struggle. It informs contemporary readership about this under-emphasised dimension of the Palestinian movement for liberation, arguing that at the present juncture the popular resistance movement, especially in the West Bank, is the most significant form of struggle against the ongoing occupation. One of the sub-themes is the argument that the unarmed nature of the resistance enables the Palestinian activists to reach out to significant constituencies of support in the international sphere. Palestinian Popular Resistance also addresses the international dimensions of the Palestinian struggle, focusing in particular on the BDS campaign, the role of international solidarity activists in the OPT and beyond, and the changing forms of engagement developed by international agencies seeking to work on the roots of the conflict whilst fulfilling their humanitarian aid mandates.