WHAT'S NEW  Al-Shabaka Policy Brief: Keeping an Eye on UNRWA Jerusalem Quarterly Winter Issue #48 is out Lisa Hajjar: Lawfare and Targeted Killing: Developments in the Israeli and US Context   The Third IPS-Mansour Armaly MESA Panel. In early December, the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) was privileged to host the third IPS–Mansour Armaly panel on Palestine at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) held in Washington, DC. Dr. Armaly (1927–2005) was a world renowned pioneer in the treatment of glaucoma.  Though the recipient of the medical field’s highest honors, he never forgot his roots in Shafa ‘Amr, Palestine, and was a supporter of the Institute for Palestine Studies. Dr. Armaly’s family honors his commitment to Palestine through these panels.   "Israel/Palestine as a 21st Century Lawfare Laboratory"  Lisa Hajjar, professor, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Forensic Architecture and the Politics of War Crime Investigation" Eyal Weizman, professor, Goldsmiths College (UK) "Spectres of Estrangement: the ‘ungovernable’ camp & the figure of the ‘irreconcilable’ refugee" Nasser Abourahme, graduate student, Columbia University.  The presentations can be viewed on this video player (if you cannot view the player, click on the links above to view on YouTube). Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com       The issue of imprisonment by Israeli authorities is longstanding and pervasive. It is estimated that since 1967, one-fifth of the Palestinian population in the occupied territories has been in an Israeli prison at one time. In this Special Focus, we share selected Journal of Palestine Studies articles about Political Prisoners in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.     THE AUTUMN 2011 issue features Alain Gresh’s essay “Reflections on the Meaning of Palestine.” The longtime editor-in-chief and current deputy-director of the French monthly Le Monde diplomatique reflects on why Palestine has been widely embraced as a “universal cause.” Margret Johannsen studies the use of ultra-short-range rockets by Palestinian militant factions in the Gaza Strip as part of the overall dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and as a tool employed within internal Palestinian rivalries. In “Letter from the UN: The Palestinian Bid for Membership,” Graham Usher considers the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member state at the United Nations the latest stage in its “alternative peace strategy.” He writes this initiative was “born of the collapse of the U.S.-sponsored Oslo peace process.”  Writing about Holocaust denial, which is on the rise in Arab countries since the 1980s, Gilbert Achcar explores it in contradistinction to Western Holocaust denial. Laura Robson writes about the Greek Orthodox Church in Palestine.  The largest of the Christian denominations, is has long been troubled by a conflict (“controversy”) between its all-Greek hierarchy and its Arab laity hinging on Arab demands for a larger role in church affairs.  In a historical piece, Bedross Der Matossian, discusses the Armenians of Palestine, for whom “the three decades of the Mandate were probably the most momentous in their fifteen hundred-year presence in the country.” Also:   From the Editor by Rashid Khalidi Book reviews by Musa Budeiri, Aslam Farouk-Alli and Cheryl Rubenberg and others. BACK MATTER: Quarterly Update, Chronology, Documents and Source Materials, and Bibliography etc. See our video about this essential book This classic, landmark work has been re-printed and is available for purchase!  Before Their Diaspora is a visual journey into Palestine before 1948.  It documents the lives of Palestinians before the upheaval of 1947-48. Every important aspect of Palestinian society comes to life in the nearly 500 photographs, carefully selected from thousands available in private and public collections throughout the world. READ MORE.     This issue of Jerusalem Quarterly is dedicated to the memory of François Abu Salem (1951-2011), a pioneer of Palestinian theater and a true Jerusalemite, ...more Shifting Ottoman Conceptions of Palestine-Part 2: Ethnography and Cartography Pierre Loti's Perplexed Pilgrimage to Jerusalem The Awakening of Palestinian Hydropolitical Consciousness: The Artas-Jerusalem Water Conflict of 1925 In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material Afterlife in Post-Oslo Palestine Staging the Sublimation of Cliché: Elia Suleiman's Silences in the Time That Remains (2009) Ethnic Cleansing Continues: Israeli Lawyers Tell UN Palestinian Jerusaelmites Targeted   The Congressional Monitor Database is a powerful new research tool that contains every legislative initiative introduced in the U.S. Congress from 2001 through 2010 that mentions Palestine or Israel. The database is web-based and completely open access. Users can quickly search legislation dealing with key issues such as refugees and Jerusalem, and by the names of the Senators and Representatives who initiate and support the legislation. See Frequently Asked Questions for a detailed guide to the database and the legislative process.   IPS fellows contribute commentary, analysis, and insight into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. IPS makes their writing available for free Rashid Khalidi interview: A Reset for U.S. Policy? Not Now, But Watch the Base Khalidi: Haaretz interview Rabbani: Harvard event Rashid Khalidi: Ross's Departure Salim Tamari: Is There a Palestinian Strategy? Joseph Massad: Nuclear Israel Revisited  Joseph Massad: Truth, Facts and Facts on the Ground Mouin Rabbani Quoted in Al Jazeera English Article Mouin Rabbani: U.S. Should Step Aside as Mideast Broker Mouin Rabbani: Prisoner Exchange Levels Hamas, Fatah Playing Field