PIPD launches ‘Communicating Palestine’ portal
by Piyush Mathur
The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) has launched a full-fledged website intended as a ‘go-to guide offering tools to narrate and engage with Palestine ethically and responsibly.’
The portal’s self-introduction notes that it has been put together by a Palestinian-led team of international organisations, researchers, and editors.
This is a screenshot of the logo for the ‘Communicating Palestine’ portal launched by the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD). (Credit: PIPD)
The portal includes an extensive range of resources and experts-on-call ready to assist individuals, organisations, and governments around the world gain insight into the Palestinian outlook for their future, informed by their history and current situation.
Global citizens can also use these resources to organise informational and activist events locally. To that end, the portal also has a ‘Workshop and General Inquiries’ contact form, whose link is this: https://www.communicatingpalestine.org/contact
This ‘go-to guide’ includes photographs, an online quiz, a terminological repertoire, and an articulate philosophical framework within which Palestine’s aspirations for liberation are candidly located and promoted.
The research methodology used to put together this guide/portal is also explained on one of the pages: https://www.communicatingpalestine.org/about#what
While the website mentions that the idea for putting together a guide like this was conceived in 2019, it does not provide a precise date when it was launched; social media posts announcing it indirectly indicate that it may have been launched in the first week of October, 2025.
The researchers and editors acknowledged on the portal are as follows: ‘Lina Hegazi, Ania Kdair, Iuna Vieira, Inès Abdel Razek, Mariam Barghouti, Mayss Al Alami, Aseel AlBajeh, Danielle Ferreira, Diana Alzeer, Farah El Yacoubi, Haneen Kinani, Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal, Laura Albast, Mehdi Beyad, Sara Abdel-Qader, Sara Husseini, Makan, and Al-Haq.’
The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD)
Describing itself as ‘a non-governmental independent organization advocating for the liberation of Palestine from all forms of settler colonialism and advancing Palestinian people’s diplomacy and a Palestinian-led movement’, the PIPD is located in Ramallah, in the West Bank, though it operates rather like a virtual network of researchers, writers, activists, and technicians.
The PIPD website itself contains detailed information and updates on Palestine, and a resource machinery all its own; it also retains an open invitation to join the organisation.
Piyush Mathur, Ph. D., is the author of the book Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic (Lexington Books, 2017). See also Global citizens can now meet virtually with Israeli hostages’ families and Essential English-language video sources on Israel-Palestine History