Decolonising the Everyday:Palestinian Activism in Israel and the Politics of Sumud

Why Palestinians resist—and why they will never stop.

While global attention focuses on Gaza and the West Bank, Dr. Nijmeh Ali centres third-generation Palestinian citizens of Israel, activists who refuse erasure from within the heart of the settler-colonial system.
Through intimate interviews and grounded theory, Ali redefines Sumud as a radical everyday practice of survival, dissent, and political clarity. This book blows open the myth that resistance ends at the checkpoint. It shows us the young Palestinian activists inside Israel—citizens by law—who are redefining what it means to resist
from within a settler state. These are the voices we have not heard, not because they are
silent, but because they have been silenced.

Whether you are a student, academic, journalist, policymaker, or activist, this book offers bold
new insights into a community that challenges every liberal assumption about citizenship,
identity, and belonging. It introduces Sumud—not as cultural endurance, but as radical political
strategy—and invites readers into the daily negotiations of those refusing to disappear.