This paper argues that both the institutions and the social cohesion of Palestinians in Jerusalem were dealt a heavy blow following the creation of the Palestinian Authority in 1994. The Palestinian Authority increasingly demobilized Palestinians within Jerusalem and eroded traditional institutions. Nevertheless, the Israeli occupation’s intention to repress Jerusalemites by shutting down their organizations has inadvertently opened up new opportunities for collective action. Since then, Jerusalemites have begun reviving traditional institutions and working to address Israeli policies. This article incorporates new quantitative and qualitative data on the most recent waves of protest to make the argument that social cohesion is crucial to understanding protest capacity in East Jerusalem today.

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Palestinian Protests: Jerusalem’s Shifting Fortunes

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Contemporary Arab Affairs, Vol. 11, Number 4, pp. 19–40. issn 1755-0912. Electronic issn: 1755-0920. © 2018 by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/caa.2018.114002

Dana El Kurd received her Ph.D. in Government from The University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Comparative Politics and International Relations. Today she is a researcher at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar.


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