ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how political practices are being passed between generations of Palestinians. It focuses on the different models of popular, national and democratic organising passed on through informal forms of learning and knowledge production that occur ‘in action’ through shared political work. The chapter will demonstrate how these ideas and practices of political action are currently being disseminated among Palestinians.
The chapter also seeks to chart the current trends of thought and practice present amongst Palestinians. I will introduce these approaches, before focusing on a model of large, national mobilisation campaigns to which I was introduced when reading the report of the Civitas project, and to which I later contributed through initiatives to reactivate and democratise the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). This model organises inclusive, national and popular mobilisations that facilitate Palestinians claiming their national institutions and achieving representation and unity. I will set out the principles of this work as I learnt them and explain why this model, which draws from the Palestinian revolutionary tradition, is an instructive case study on intergenerational learning.
