Palestinian trade unionist George Mansour (b. 1905 – d. 1963) initially worked as a baker, then as school teacher in Nazareth before his family moved to Jaffa in 1927, where he worked first in tra...
Men of Capital in Mandate Palestine
This essay examines Palestinian “men of capital” in British-ruled Palestine. It lays out their historical erasure as the product of settler colonialism; the historiographic dominance of the aristoc...
US Labor & Imperialism Pt. 2: Zionism w/ Jeff Schuhrke (Palestine Pt. 16)
A Theory of Forced Labour Migration
This book focuses on labour dislocation and migration of Palestinians between 1967 and 1990. In particular, it highlights the social transformations in the occupied Palestinian territory where Palestinian labour was permitted to work in Israel from 1968 onwards.
The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian-Arab Middle Class Under the British Mandate, 1920–39
The Palestinian-Arab middle class under the Mandate may be characterized as bourgeois and educated, similarly to bourgeois classes that have developed in the West in the Modern era. The bourgeois characteristics of the Palestinian-Arab middle class, and their influence on its historical trajectory during the Mandate era, have not been studied in depth yet. This article aims to focus on a local aspect of the rise of the middle class in the region in that period: the rise of the Palestinian-Arab middle class under the Mandate, until the Palestinian-Arab Revolt (1936–9). The main hypothesis is that particular bourgeois social and cultural characteristics prevented the middle class full incorporation into the Palestinian-Arab National Movement, and even led to estrangement between the middle class and the national leadership, as well as members of lower strata, especially the villagers. Members of the middle class, mostly Christians but Muslims as well, espoused in their daily life modern habits, ideas, and customs, as a means to distinguish between themselves and other classes, similarly to their parallels in the West, and like their contemporaries elsewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean, as has demonstrated by Watenpaugh. Those gaps reached their climax during the years of revolt.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine | Oneworld
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel. ‘Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.’ NEW STATESMAN Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and […]
Joe Kent’s Resignation Was Brave. His Analysis Is Faulty.
The former counterterrorism official’s assertion that Israel was responsible for US wars in Iraq and Syria is false, and evidence of a dangerously…
British White Papers: White Paper of 1939
White Paper issued by Great Britain in 1939 proposing a unitary state in which the Arabs would have been in control with the power to limit Jewish immigration.
Habermas as an ethnic thinker Par Excellence: on critique, Palestine and the role of intellectuals
Taking Habermas’ 2023 statement on Palestinians-Israel as the point of entry, this article examines his concept of critique. Against the dominant view of him as a philosopher of ‘universalism’ and ...
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex
The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalism
The Palestinian Nakba and its Continuous Repercussions
Adel Manna', The Palestinian Nakba and its Continuous Repercussions, Israel Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2013, Shared Narratives—A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue / Guest Editors: Paul Scham, Benjamin Pogrund, and As'ad Ghanem
Britain’s Palestine failure and the collapse of the international rules-based order
Britain dithers on the sidelines instead of seizing the opportunity to address a century-old injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people
Modern Day Slavery: the Kafala System in Lebanon
"Two hundred and fifty thousand workers under the Kafala system in Lebanon are currently struggling to survive in an exploitative system."
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Twitter / X
The reality is that there are no heroes here. No one cared about the truth or about Jason Arday’s life, including, most sadly, Jason Arday himself.A- Many things could be, and are, true at the same time. Arday clearly was a troubled man. You can see it in his photos and hear it… pic.twitter.com/T8k3lnJZeY— Hussein Aboubakr Mansour (@HusseinAboubak) August 20, 2026
Mapping Our Way Through Nehemiah
Mapping Our Way Through Nehemiah Ref Place Time Characters Events Prayer 1:1-3 Susa Chislev Nehemiah (1st person Ref.) Hanani Certain men Hanani and men come from Judah to Susa. Nehemiah asks about Jews who survived exile and about Jerusalem They report: Remnant in great trouble an...
Jewish Materialism
A paradigm-shifting account of the modern Jewish experience, from one of the most creative young historians of his generationTo understand the organizing fra...
