Civic space worldwide is shrinking – nowhere is this plainer than in Palestine–Israel

Suppressing Dissent brings together leading experts of shrinking civic space and transnational repression concerning Palestine–Israel to show how failing to address the phenomenon has impacts in the United States, the Middle East and beyond.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Palestine, Israel, and the Battle for Hearts and Minds – and the Levers of Policy by Zaha Hassan

Palestinian Civil Society in the Shadow of a One-State Reality: Managing the Terms of Subjugation After the Oslo Accords … Resentfully and Ineffectively by Nathan J. Brown

The Oslo Framework and Palestinian Authoritarianism by Dana El Kurd

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Impact of Israel’s Occupation and Palestinian Authoritarianism on Community Organizing and NGOs by Zaha Hassan and Layla Gantus

The Rise, Weakening, and Resurgence of Civil Society in Israel by Dahlia Scheindlin

Neo-Kahanism: The Growing Influence of a Violent, Jewish Supremacist Ideology by Jessica Buxbaum and Katherine Wilkens

US Counterterrorism Law and Policy: Its Role in Shutting Down Palestinian Activism and Agency by Nour Soubani and Diala Shamas

Israeli Mechanisms to Restrict Civic Space: From Surveillance and Repression in the Occupied West Bank to Policing Israelis Writ Large by Yael Berda

Made in Palestine: Repackaging Apartheid as “Smart” Cities by Matt Mahmoudi

Digital Repression: How Palestinian Voices are Censored, Surveilled, and Threatened Online by Marwa Fatafta

The How-to of Shutting Down Pro-Palestinian Speech and Protest in the US by Lara Friedman

Restrictions on Financial Services and Banking and their Impacts on Palestinian NGOs by Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery and Paul Carroll

Closing Spaces Beyond Borders: Israel’s Transnational Repression Network by Yousef Munayyer

From Exclusion to Erasure: The Attempt to Silence Arab Americans on Palestine by Maya Berry

Shrinking Civic Space in the Arab World and its Relationship to Palestine/Israel by Marwan Muasher and Rafiah Al Talei

Conclusion: Rules, Dissent, and National Security by H.A. Hellyer