First intifada

US Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor refuses to pause $655m. judgment against Palestinian Authority

The decision allows efforts to collect the money to continue while the PA and PLO prepare another appeal, but it does not mean the Supreme Court has ruled on that appeal itself.

A person uses an umbrella to block the sun at the Supreme Court amid a heatwave in Washington.
A person walks outside BBC Broadcasting House. November 16, 2025.

BBC faces backlash for calling First Intifada 'largely unarmed and popular uprising'

Freed Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, gesture, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025.

Hamas terrorist freed in hostage deal hosted in Canada, US orgs' webinar

JACOB LICHT, 56, from Silver Spring to Jerusalem, 2024.

Biotech between worlds: Jacob Licht's aliyah story - interview


On This Day: Yasser Arafat, PNC, announce Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers

November 15 is also the birthday of Arafat's successor as PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who was born in Safed during the British Mandate in 1935.

Yasser Arafat raises his hand as he declares an independent Palestinian state during the PNC meeting in Algiers. November 15, 1988.

Columbia University students hold lecture teaching ‘lessons’ of First Intifada

Columbia University stated that CUAD was not 'recognized, authorized, or supported' by the institution and that the University rejects 'materials that glorify violence.'

 A timed exposure shot of Columbia University's main academic library (and the largest building on campus), Butler Library, at dusk.

Biden spotted with book that accuses Israel of settler-colonialism, apartheid

The spotting has drawn mixed reactions from both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups that are unclear as to what message is being sent.

 US President Joe Biden seen leaving a bookstore in Massachusetts with "The hundred Years War on Palestine," November 29, 2024.

Israel breaks 20-year record for administrative detention of Palestinians - analysis

Identifying the possible implications of ending the administrative detention of Palestinians.

IDF with Palestinian demonstrators during a rally in solidarity with six Palestinian prisoners who managed to esacpe from an Israeli prison a few days ago, in Hebron, September 9, 2021.

34 years after First Intifada, terror attacks still a daily threat in Israel - analysis

The IDF has been able to handle terror groups like Hamas, but lone wolves are a threat they have yet to conquer.

PALESTINIANS BURN tires in a demonstration during the First Intifada in Ramallah in 1988

The next generation of peace advocates face an even more difficult task

Encountering Peace: The next generation of Israelis and Palestinians will have to try to figure out how to make a single state, from the River to the Sea, of all of its citizens.

HOPE FOR the next generation.

A Gaza diary

My memorable visit to the hotbed of the uprising three decades ago.

Three Palestinian children walk down a dirt road in the Burjeij refugee camp in Gaza

Il y a 30 ans, la première Intifada

Le premier soulèvement populaire palestinien d’envergure a pris l’establishment politique et militaire de court. Les acteurs de cette période racontent

Fouille par l’armée de Palestiniens dans la bande de Gaza en 198

Middle Israel: The Israeli-Palestinian Thirty Years’ War

The balance sheet of the showdown the Palestinians launched in December 1987 indicates more failure than success

The first intifada

Invitation to an intifada: Part 1

Thirty years on, a former soldier recounts 30 days that opened his eyes to the price of occupation

‘OTHER THAN a crash course in crowd control, we were never trained for this.’ The author (foreground) with two other members of his platoon near the village of Yanta, deep in eastern Lebanon, on June 12, 1982, the day after the cease-fire with the Syrians