Palestine/Israel Review

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Palestine/Israel Review is an open access journal that provides a platform for exchanging knowledge, scholarship, and ideas among scholars who share the relational, integrative, and holistic approach to the study of Palestine/Israel.
In approaching Palestine/Israel, the journal is committed to the following basic principles of international law:

1. The international Court of Justice has pronounced that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip is a wrongful act of a continuing character, which violate the prohibition on the acquisition of territory by force and the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. Therefore, Israel is under the obligation to bring an end to its illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible, including the obligation to dismantle settlements and the segregation wall.
2. International law also considers the Syrian Golan Heights as occupied by Israel, the colonization of which must end too. International law requires granting Palestinian citizens of Israel full equality, both on an individual level and as an indigenous group.
3. The right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194 is an imperative of core international law norms.

The journal publishes studies in the humanities and the social sciences that emphasize the social, cultural, economic, and political dynamics between the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine/Israel from the nineteenth century until the present. The journal will cover these dynamics in Palestine/Israel (from Ottoman times to the present). Topics of interest will include related processes in the region (for example, among Palestinian refugees in neighboring countries), as well as relevant developments overseas (for example, the place of Jewish communities abroad in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict).

Authors hold copyright to their articles and PSU Press licenses the work under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-NC-ND. The Palestine/Israel Review is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available immediately upon publication without charge to the user or their institution. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, per the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Palestine/Israel Review is made available Open Access with generous support from the Department of History at Penn State University.

There is no fee associated with submitting or publishing an article in the journal.

A special issue: From Nakba to Genocide, guest edited by Dr. Maha Nassar and Dr. Raz Segal is forthcoming in 2026.

Editors
Sonia Boulos
Atalia Omer

Associate Editor
Lior Sternfeld

Book Review Editor
Ian Lustick

Editorial Board
Joel Beinin
Anna Bernard
Leila Farsakh
Honaida Ghanim
Nadeem Karkabi
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
Laura Robson
Ella Shohat
Tamir Sorek
Oren Yiftachel
Raef Zreik

Advisory Board
Bashir Bashir
Basilius Bawardi
Arie Dubnov
Awad Halabi
Liora Halperin
Shai Hazkani
Amal Jamal
Daniel Monterescu
Mohanad Mustafa
Issam Nassar
Randa Serhan
Avi Shoshana
Ran Zwigenberg

To submit a manuscript to Palestine/Israel Review, or a proposal for a book review, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/pir/. The online system will guide you through the steps to upload your article to the editorial office. Refer to these submission guidelines before uploading your manuscript.

For initial consideration, authors may submit their paper in any scholarly format or layout. There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, keywords, figures, tables, references. References can be in any style or format, so long as a consistent scholarly citation format is applied. For final post-acceptance submissions, the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition, should be applied.

Manuscript length might vary by discipline, but the journal will not publish peer-reviewed scholarly papers longer than 10,000 words. The journal will also consider shorter position papers, no longer than 3,000 words.

In addition, the journal invites proposals for peer-reviewed extended book reviews, discussing three to six recent titles in the field of Palestine/Israel, preferably in more than one language. For submitting a proposal, please , mentioning which books you would like to review, as well as your estimated timeline for submitting the review.

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