From the River to the Sea,
Palestine Will Be Free

A Palestinian-led resource on the Nakba, occupation, siege, apartheid, resistance, return, and the fight for liberation.

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Timeline: 1900-May 2026

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Palestinian History, Told From Palestine

Palestine is a homeland with cities, villages, farms, refugee camps, holy places, archives, songs, foodways, family histories, and a people who have refused erasure.

From a Palestinian point of view, the core story is settler colonialism and dispossession: British rule, Zionist colonization, the 1948 Nakba, the 1967 occupation, settlement expansion, Gaza's siege, political imprisonment, exile, and the ongoing demand for return and liberation.

78+
Years Since the Nakba
59+
Years of 1967 Occupation
500+
Destroyed Villages

Palestinian Resistance

Popular Resistance

Marches, strikes, sit-ins, village defense committees, prisoner solidarity, and the Great March of Return keep Palestinian demands visible.

These actions center freedom of movement, refugee return, land defense, and an end to military occupation.

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

BDS is a Palestinian civil society call to pressure institutions that profit from or normalize apartheid and occupation.

It asks people to withdraw money, legitimacy, contracts, and cultural cover from systems that deny Palestinian rights.

Narrative Resistance

Palestinians document raids, demolitions, siege, checkpoints, killings, censorship, and everyday survival in real time.

Sharing Palestinian voices challenges propaganda that dehumanizes the colonized and hides state violence.

What This Site Stands For

Return Is a Right

Palestinian refugees and their descendants have not surrendered the right to return to the homes, towns, and lands from which they were expelled.

Occupation Must End

Military rule, settlements, checkpoints, raids, home demolitions, land theft, and administrative detention are not normal political disputes. They are structures of domination.

Gaza Must Be Free

The siege of Gaza is collective punishment. Palestinians in Gaza deserve open borders, reconstruction, healthcare, education, safety, and political freedom.

Apartheid Must Fall

Any system that grants rights by ethnicity, controls movement, fragments land, and privileges settlers over indigenous Palestinians must be dismantled.

Who Betrayed Palestine?

Western Governments

US/UK veto UN resolutions, fund Israeli military.

Provide unwavering political, economic, and military support to Israel, enabling its occupation and human rights abuses.

Arab Regimes

Normalization deals while occupation continues.

Prioritize political and economic interests over Palestinian rights, normalizing relations with Israel despite the ongoing occupation.

Corporate Media

Dehumanizes Palestinians, spreads propaganda.

Bias reporting, censorship, and the spread of misinformation to justify Israeli actions and suppress Palestinian voices.

Take Action Now

Sign Petitions


Sign Now

Demand sanctions, arms embargoes, an end to diplomatic cover, and accountability for crimes against Palestinians.

Donate


Donate Now

Spread Awareness


Share

Share Palestinian sources, survivor testimony, historical context, boycott targets, and calls to action in your community.

Contact Representatives


Contact

Push elected officials to stop funding occupation, stop arming Israel, protect protest rights, and support Palestinian self-determination.

Educational Resources

History Hub

Start with Palestinian memory: the Nakba, the Naksa, Intifadas, siege, massacres, uprisings, and ongoing resistance.

Open History Hub

Myth Checks

Short explanations for common claims about Palestine, Zionism, refugees, land ownership, resistance, and international law.

Read Myth Checks

Legal Library

International law resources, UN material, ICJ and ICC context, and legal tools for naming occupation, apartheid, genocide, and accountability.

Open Legal Library

Country Positions

Track which governments enable Israel through weapons, money, vetoes, silence, normalization, or public relations cover.

Browse Countries

Start Here

Learn the Timeline

Follow the major events from colonial partition proposals and the Nakba through occupation, uprisings, Gaza assaults, and international court cases.

Begin with 1948

Use Classroom Materials

Teacher and student pages provide structured objectives, activities, reading prompts, and print-friendly learning resources.

Open Education Kit

Support Organized Action

Find boycott resources, solidarity organizations, campaigns, donation links, and practical ways to pressure institutions complicit in occupation.

Open Boycott Guide

Explore Palestinian Communities

Read about diaspora regions, women, youth, labor, journalists, and the cultural work that keeps Palestinian identity alive across exile and siege.

Open Diaspora Hub

Voices of Resistance

"Palestinian resilience is not passive survival. It is organizing, memory, refusal, return, and the insistence that no power can erase a people."

Dr. Leila Khaled
Palestinian Activist

"We will not be erased. Our history, our culture, our rights - these are not negotiable. Palestine lives in every heartbeat of our people."

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Palestinian-American Writer

"Gaza is not a humanitarian footnote. It is the sharpest proof that occupation, siege, and impunity must be confronted directly."

Dr. Randa Fahmy
Human Rights Advocate

Palestinian Culture & Heritage

Palestinian culture is resistance against erasure. Tatreez, olive harvests, village names, keys, poetry, dabke, cuisine, archives, and family stories carry a map that colonization tried to destroy.

Culture keeps the homeland present in refugee camps, diaspora communities, prisons, besieged neighborhoods, and every place Palestinians rebuild life after displacement.

Traditional Music

Preserve songs of harvest, exile, steadfastness, prisoners, martyrs, and return

Cuisine

Protect food memory tied to villages, seasons, olive oil, zaatar, bread, and family tables

Arts & Crafts

Read tatreez, posters, murals, keys, and visual art as records of land and struggle

The Future of Palestine

Liberation, Return, Accountability

A free Palestine means the right of return, an end to occupation and siege, Palestinian sovereignty from the river to the sea, freedom for prisoners, protection of land and holy places, and accountability for those who carried out or enabled oppression.

Right of Return

Defending refugees' right to go home and restoring Palestinian presence to erased villages and cities

Land Back

Protecting Palestinian land, water, farms, homes, archives, and sacred places from confiscation and destruction

Self-Determination

Supporting Palestinian political, cultural, economic, and educational power without colonial control

Historical Gallery

Faris Odeh confronting an Israeli tank during the Second Intifada in Gaza
Second Intifada Faris Odeh became a symbol of Palestinian youth facing military occupation in Gaza.
Fawzi al-Juneidi detained by Israeli soldiers in Hebron in 2017
Children Under Occupation Fawzi al-Juneidi's detention in Hebron showed the daily violence Palestinian children face.
A Palestinian flag raised during a protest
Flag of Return The Palestinian flag remains a public claim to land, memory, liberation, and return.
Visual Memory This gallery now uses project-held Palestine-related images instead of generic stock photos. Add more verified photos to assets/images to expand it.