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Expropriations and restrictive planning threaten Palestinian neighbourhoods of Israeli cities, including Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem Reciprocity Images / Alamy Stock Photo

May 26, 2021

How urban planning plays a role in Israel-Palestine

Irit Katz, University of Cambridge and Haim Yacobi, UCL

From discriminatory land-use policies to evictions and demolitions, urban planning has long been weaponised against the Palestinian people

Arthur James Balfour. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema via Wikimedia Commons

November 1, 2017

A century on, the Balfour Declaration still shapes Palestinians’ everyday lives

Simon Mabon, Lancaster University

With just 67 words, a British foreign secretary kicked off a hundred years of conflict and displacement.

Day of catastrophe: but little is being done to heal the wounds. EPA/Abed Al Hashlamoun

May 15, 2014

Nakba day in Palestine – past catastrophe, future conflict?

Luisa Gandolfo, University of Aberdeen

This year Nakba Day marks 66 years since the displacement of Palestinians prior to the establishment of the state of Israel. The passing of an-Nakbah (literally, “the Catastrophe”) arrives amidst failed…

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Luisa Gandolfo
Lecturer in Peace and Reconciliation, University of Aberdeen
Simon Mabon
Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
Irit Katz
Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge
Haim Yacobi
Professor of Development Planning, UCL

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