Marwan Barghouti

Abbas's unilateral successor pick sparks fears of division, anarchy among Palestinians

Palestinians fear that Abbas’s decision to unilaterally appoint his successor could lead to internal tension, political division, and even anarchy.

DECEMBER 16, 2025|ByDANA BEN-SHIMON

A Palestinian man walks past graffiti showing Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti in Bethlehem, West Bank.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves as he arrives for the opening the Fatah youth conference in Ramallah on November 27, 2025.

Palestinian Authority's succession struggle: Who will succeed Mahmoud Abbas? - analysis

As PA president, Mahmoud Abbas enters his tenth decade, rival factions, popular prisoners, and regional powers brace for a turbulent succession.

DECEMBER 16, 2025|ByMICHAEL MILSHTEIN

PAUL SIMON performs onstage at the 2021 Global Citizen Live concert at Central Park in New York. ‘I find it hard to believe that your father, a professor of education, would have approved of your recent stance,’ the writer asserts.

Paul Simon shattered my dreams: Support for Barghouti is profoundly dissapointing - opinion

Paul Simon's music has enriched many lives and provided joy and inspiration, but many are disappointed by his stance.

DECEMBER 10, 2025|ByMENACHEM GRANIT YADIN

Past and present meet in antisemitism. Zvika Klein and Noa Tishby in Paris, two cases with ten years of difference, but the same endings

How Europe turned Jewish visibility into a thought crime - comment

The message is simple, and very old: if you are visibly Jewish, if you defend Israel, if you challenge the narrative that paints Hamas as “freedom fighters,” you are the problem.

DECEMBER 9, 2025|ByZVIKA KLEIN

Barghouti to form own list for elections in blow to Abbas - report

Abbas and senior Fatah officials have threatened to expel any member of the faction who runs on a separate list.

MARCH 31, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH

Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti would win elections for Palestinian president according to a poll held in early summer by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion.

Palestinians elections – just like in the West?

“The Palestinian system is now divided. Hamas and Fatah are seeing what’s going on… with the new administration of [US President Joe] Biden and after four bad years for them”

JANUARY 24, 2021ByBARUCH MOORE

A Palestinian Mandela and an Israeli de Klerk

Interesting comparison can be made between players in the local scene and these historical figures.

JANUARY 1, 2020ByGERSHON BASKIN

A Palestinian protester burns a replica Israeli flag as another holds a Palestinian flag during clashes with the Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah October 18, 2015.

Italian city of Palermo names square after Yasser Arafat

In 2014, the mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando also awarded the city's honorary citizenship to Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life-sentences in Israel for terrorism.

NOVEMBER 1, 2019ByROSSELLA TERCATIN

Yasser Arafat in 1968 at the then PLO head quarters.

Ofra and Givat Assaf terrorists reported to be Barghouti brothers

The Barghouti brothers belong to a clan whose members are famous for carrying out a series of terrorist attacks against Israel in the past four decades.

DECEMBER 20, 2018BySARA RUBENSTEIN

Palestinian Hamas militants attend the funeral of their comrades who were killed in an explosion, in the central Gaza Strip May 6, 2018

Poll: Palestinians favor jailed leader Barghouthi as Abbas successor

The poll was conducted by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR), which interviewed 2,150 adults in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

JULY 4, 2018ByREUTERS