The organisations of the Palestinian national movement, presented through their own founding documents.https://falasteen.ai/enFree to read, quote and cite with attribution to FALASTEEN.AI.https://falasteen.ai/movements/palestinian-national-initiative/https://falasteen.ai/movements/palestinian-national-initiative/Founded at the height of the Second Intifada by a physician, an elder statesman of Gaza and a literary critic dying in New York, on the argument that Palestinians needed a democratic third force between Fatah's corruption and Hamas's armed maximalism — and that the resistance most likely to succeed was unarmed.Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/unified-national-leadership-uprising/https://falasteen.ai/movements/unified-national-leadership-uprising/An anonymous committee of four factions that ran the First Intifada by leaflet. Its bayanat — numbered communiqués, photocopied and passed hand to hand — set the strike days, the boycott, the school hours and the funeral discipline of an entire population for six years, and no one who signed them was ever named.Fri, 01 Jan 1988 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/hamas/https://falasteen.ai/movements/hamas/Founded in Gaza City on the second day of the First Intifada by seven Muslim Brotherhood leaders around Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Its 1988 charter and its 2017 Document of General Principles say materially different things, and the movement issued the second itself, to restate its position.Thu, 01 Jan 1987 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/palestinian-islamic-jihad/https://falasteen.ai/movements/palestinian-islamic-jihad/Founded by Palestinian students in Egypt who concluded that they had found nationalists without Islam and Islamists without Palestine. Its founder Fathi Shaqaqi, a paediatrician from Rafah, was assassinated in Malta in October 1995; the movement has stayed out of elections and out of government ever since.Tue, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/prisoners-movement/https://falasteen.ai/movements/prisoners-movement/The movement the prisoners built inside the prison system itself — a cross-factional structure of representation, education and collective struggle whose weapon is the open-ended hunger strike, and whose own historians trace its first martyrs to the three men hanged at Acre in 1930.Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/dflp/https://falasteen.ai/movements/dflp/Split from the PFLP in February 1969 on the argument that a petit-bourgeois group could not simply declare itself Marxist-Leninist. It was the first Palestinian organisation to argue publicly, from 1973, for a state on the West Bank and Gaza — and the organisation responsible for the killing of twenty-five schoolchildren at Ma'alot in 1974.Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/pflp-general-command/https://falasteen.ai/movements/pflp-general-command/Ahmad Jibril's breakaway of October 1968, founded on the argument that the PFLP was drowning military work in ideological debate. It became the most Syria-aligned of the Palestinian organisations, fought other Palestinians in Lebanon, and negotiated the largest prisoner exchange in Palestinian history in 1985.Mon, 01 Jan 1968 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/pflp/https://falasteen.ai/movements/pflp/Formed six months after the June 1967 defeat from the Palestine Section of the Arab Nationalist Movement, and turned Marxist at its second congress in February 1969. Its spokesman was the novelist Ghassan Kanafani; its external operations branch made the hijacking a global symbol, and its own leadership voted in 1970 to stop them.Sun, 01 Jan 1967 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/plo/https://falasteen.ai/movements/plo/Founded in Jerusalem in May 1964 by a Palestine National Council of 422 delegates, taken over by the guerrilla organisations in 1968–69, recognised by the Arab League in 1974 as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and the body that declared the State of Palestine at Algiers in 1988.Wed, 01 Jan 1964 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/fatah/https://falasteen.ai/movements/fatah/Founded by refugee engineers and teachers working in Kuwait on one inverted premise: that the liberation of Palestine is the road to Arab unity, and not the other way round. It took over the PLO in 1969, renounced armed struggle at Algiers in 1988, signed at Oslo in 1993, and has governed the Palestinian Authority ever since.Thu, 01 Jan 1959 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/arab-nationalist-movement/https://falasteen.ai/movements/arab-nationalist-movement/Founded by medical students at the American University of Beirut who had watched their own towns emptied in 1948, on the premise that Arab unity was the road to the liberation of Palestine. Its Palestine Section became, after the defeat of June 1967, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.Mon, 01 Jan 1951 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/arab-higher-committee/https://falasteen.ai/movements/arab-higher-committee/The first body to speak for all of Palestine — six parties and ten men, formed on the sixth day of the 1936 general strike, outlawed by the British in 1937, and left after 1948 as a government-in-name-only over a people it could no longer reach.Wed, 01 Jan 1936 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/al-jihad-al-muqaddas/https://falasteen.ai/movements/al-jihad-al-muqaddas/The volunteer force that defended the Jerusalem corridor in the winter of 1947–48 — a few thousand villagers with rifles against an organised army. Its commander, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, was killed retaking al-Qastal on 8 April 1948; the road fell, and a day later Deir Yassin was massacred.Tue, 01 Jan 1935 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/black-hand-qassam/https://falasteen.ai/movements/black-hand-qassam/The clandestine cells a Syrian-born preacher built among the dispossessed peasants of Haifa's shanty towns in the early 1930s. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam was killed in the woods at Ya'bad in November 1935; his funeral filled Haifa, and six months later the country rose in the longest general strike of the colonial world.Wed, 01 Jan 1930 00:00:00 GMThttps://falasteen.ai/movements/palestinian-peoples-party/https://falasteen.ai/movements/palestinian-peoples-party/The oldest continuous political current in Palestine, older than every other movement in this archive. It began among Jewish and Arab workers in Jaffa in 1919, split on the national question, was the only Palestinian party to accept the 1947 partition plan, and organised the trade unions that made the First Intifada possible.Wed, 01 Jan 1919 00:00:00 GMT