“Occupied Palestine effectively functions as an open-air laboratory for Israel to test techniques of espionage and surveillance before selling them to repressive regimes around the world.” –Middle East Institute “Israel’s use of surveillance and facial recognition appear to be among the most elaborate deployments of such technology by a country…

Visualizing Palestine is publishing this open brief to share some of the research behind our latest visual with Growing Palestine on Palestinian food sovereignty. If you are an artist, designer, data storyteller, or creative and interpret this brief for your own piece, we’d love to know. …

Visualizing Palestine Year in Review 2021 — We will look back on 2021 as a year of pivotal inflection points in the movement for Palestinian rights. Gut-wrenching and headline-capturing continuations of Israeli colonization and oppression demanded a global response, while hard-won narrative breakthroughs and hope-instilling mobilizations demonstrated the power we’re building as a movement. …

We have updated and re-released two of Visualizing Palestine’s widely used visuals to reflect more recent data and statistics. New versions of Gaza Water Confined and Contaminated (published 2012) and A Guide to Administrative Detention (published 2013) are now available to download from our website. Read on for: A summary…

2020 Releases This year, Visualizing Palestine released 5 short films, 2 interactives, and 13 infographics, and updated 2 ongoing interactive projects. …

Will Israel follow through with its pledge to officially annex up to one third of the occupied West Bank in a few days? We don’t know. What we do know is that many “takes” leading up to this moment have left Palestinians out of the discussion altogether. The erasure of…

Protest Repression from Black Lives Matter to the Great March of Return — “Less lethal” tactics of protest repression uphold a deadly status quo. Whenever people mobilize to protest injustice, they put their bodies and health on the line. In many places around the world, the pain and possibility of protest are routinely met by state violence and repression, including but not limited…

How does the Visualizing Palestine team decide what to work on? One of the most common questions the Visualizing Palestine team receives is “how do you choose what visuals to create?” To answer this question, we’ve compiled some reflections on how we find and prioritize data and topics. There are…

Visualizing Palestine’s latest data-driven visual highlights the growth of collective action for Palestinian human rights, amidst trend of censorship. — Dozens of musicians have cancelled appearances in Israel, pulled out of events sponsored by Israeli institutions, or expressed their support for the cultural boycott of Israel. …