Said out loud
Palestine has long been part of a global argument about colonialism, apartheid, and human rights. These are the people who made it, in their own words.
21 entries · 1964–2025
Palestinian-Canadian lawyer; former legal advisor to the PLO negotiating team and former PLO spokesperson
Diana Buttu on Negotiations and Media Framing
The idea that people who are living under occupation have to negotiate with their occupier is repugnant.
Barrister, Matrix Chambers; counsel for South Africa
South Africa v. Israel: The Genocide Case at the International Court of Justice
The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something.
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Francesca Albanese: 'Anatomy of a Genocide' and the Reports of the UN Special Rapporteur
There are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating that Israel has committed genocide has been met.
Counselling psychologist, Palestinian Counseling Centre, Ramallah
Rana Nashashibi: I'd rather build a house than offer counselling
Next time I go to Gaza, I won't go as psychologist. I will go as a builder.
Writer and journalist; author of 'Between the World and Me'
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Palestine and 'The Message'
It occurred to me that there was still one place on the planet — under American patronage — that resembled the world that my parents were born into.
Professor and founder, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University
Rita Giacaman: We normalize the abnormal
It is not enough to count dead bodies; we need to tally the effects of war by finding out what happens to the living.
Palestinian psychiatrist; head of the Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health at the time of writing
Samah Jabr: There is no "post-traumatic" safety
In Palestine, traumatic threats are ongoing and enduring. There is no "post-traumatic" safety.
Announced by Khalid Mishal, head of the political bureau, in Doha
The Hamas Document of General Principles and Policies
Palestine is the land of the Arab Palestinian people, from it they originate, to it they adhere and belong, and about it they reach out and communicate.
Scholar, activist, and author; Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Angela Davis: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle — From Ferguson to Palestine
Solidarity with Palestine must likewise be taken up by organizations and movements involved in progressive causes all over the world.
Archbishop and anti-apartheid activist
Desmond Tutu: Israeli Apartheid is Worse Than South Africa's
I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces.
Palestinian psychiatrist; founder of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (1944–2013)
Eyad El-Sarraj: The real heroes are the victims
I am proud and happy to receive this prize, but I consider that the real heroes are the victims of violence, torture and war.
Unions, associations, coalitions and political parties representing the three parts of the Palestinian people
The Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS
These non-violent punitive measures should be maintained until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people's inalienable right to self-determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law.
Former President of South Africa
Nelson Mandela on Palestine
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
Palestinian-American critic; former member of the Palestine National Council
Edward Said on Oslo: The Morning After
So first of all let us call the agreement by its real name: an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles.
Head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference
Haydar Abd al-Shafi at Madrid: We Come to You From a Tortured Land
We come to you from a tortured land and a proud, though captive people, having been asked to negotiate with our occupiers, but leaving behind the children of the intifada, and a people under occupation and under curfew who enjoined us not to surrender or forget.
The parliament-in-exile of the Palestine Liberation Organization
The Declaration of Independence, Algiers
The Palestine National Council hereby declares, in the Name of God and on behalf of the Palestinian Arab people, the establishment of the State of Palestine in the land of Palestine with its capital at Jerusalem.
French writer and playwright
Four Hours in Shatila
Genet's eyewitness account of the aftermath of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre — four hours among the dead, written without flinching.
Palestinian-American intellectual
Edward Said: The Question of Palestine
Palestine is a state of mind, a place of exile and longing, and a territory that has been the site of successive dispossessions.
Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat at the United Nations: The Olive Branch and the Gun
Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom-fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Novelist; spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Ghassan Kanafani: A Conversation Between the Sword and the Neck
Conversation between the sword and the neck.
Minister and human rights activist
Malcolm X in Gaza and "Zionist Logic"
Days after walking through the refugee camps of Gaza, Malcolm X set down his analysis of Zionism as a new form of colonialism.
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