The Palestinian Spring That Was Not: The Youth and Political Activism in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Author(s): Jacob Høigilt

In: Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol 35, No 4, 2013, pp. 343-359

Argues that Palestinian youth were constrained by the Israeli occupation, political oppression by both Fatah and Hamas, and 'political paralysis' resulting from the divisions between these two parties.  But youth activism did challenge the role of these parties. 

Available online at:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.35.4.0343