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In February 2020, the U.N. Human Rights Council finally published a long-delayed list of 112 companies with business activities in illegal Israeli settlements. Nine Israeli banks are on the U.N. list. Today’s new visual explains how these banks are complicit in violat..

Today marks 14 years since 170 Palestinian civil society groups came together to endorse the call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. To put this in perspective, the international movement against South African apartheid spanned more than 30 years, and many of its mo..

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We highlight Christian solidarity and the voices of Palestinian Christians in this visual to deepen international understanding of elements of Palestinian civil society that are often intentionally overlooked. Israel’s oppression of Palestinians impacts all Palestinians: Muslims, Chri..

In an era where corporations wield seemingly immovable power, ordinary citizens have used collective action to take on multinational corporations—and they have won.

This policy change by the Silicon Valley giant is an important win for Palestinian human rights, but it goes beyond that. This step sets a precedent for other tech companies to take greater responsibility for how their policies and practices affect human rights in various contexts.

Today, we launch a new series of visuals to illustrate some of the parallels between the state policies of apartheid-era South Africa and those of the present day Israeli regime towards Palestinians. These visuals will be exhibited for the first time in partnership with the

Imagine that you are standing at a bus stop alongside one other person, waiting for the bus to arrive. You are both heading in the same direction, but when the bus pulls up, you are not permitted to board. It pulls away without you. Why? Because you were born with the wrong ID. 

Every year on March 30th, Palestinians commemorate the events of Land Day, when the Israeli government killed six unarmed Palestinians who were protesting the state’s expropriation of land in the Galilee. On Land Day of 2018, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip initiated the Great Return Ma..

This week, Donald Trump announced that the US would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and pledged to move the US embassy there. This unilateral move breaks with a global consensus and past US positions, and constitutes a flagrant violation of international law...

Imagine if you came home to find your living room filled with cement, your doors soldered shut, or your home reduced to rubble. For Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, this possibility is a daily reality.

For victims and survivors of the 2014 assault on Gaza, Israel’s own military courts are the only place to seek legal recourse. These courts do not offer a genuine avenue for justice to Palestinians. 

Of the 500 Palestinian complaints which were filed with Israeli military courts in..

In July 2014, Israel began a military assault on the Gaza Strip, including an indiscriminate bombing campaign and a brutal ground invasion. In total, the assault killed 1,545 Palestinian civilians, including 556 children, and made 11,166 families homeless.

Three years on, no..

Since 1967, Israel has revoked the residency status of more than 14,500 Palestinians from Jerusalem. Revocation of residency leads to forcible transfer, a war crime under the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court and a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Visualizing Palestine presents Anatomy of Inequality, our latest visual in a series exploring Israeli policies on Jerusalem. This original VP illustration, inspired by the commonly held sentiment that Jerusalem is at the heart of Palestine, makes visual reference to anatomical drawings ..