Palestinian

comparative more Palestinian · superlative most Palestinian · alternative Palæstinian · alternative Palestinean

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Palestine or the Palestinian people.

   Here, Rose shares her Palestinian grandmother's delicious rice and lamb recipe. Her grandmother would make this as a family meal.

   2021 April 13, Shandra Woworuntu, Taste of Freedom: Recipes for Resilience, Balboa Press, →ISBN

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   Halaby […] accompanied the curators on their trip through the Middle East to collect the artwork of over 20 Palestinian artists.

   2007 December 30, Fayeq S. Oweis, Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 143

   Prospects for a Palestinian state seem unclear amid various regional challenges, resistance from Israeli officials, and questions regarding U.S. policy in early 2025.

   2025 May 14, “The Palestinians: Overview, Aid, and U.S. Policy Issues”, in congress.gov

   The group assembled in Romare Bearden Park shortly after 6 p.m., just barely outnumbering a dozen city police officers stationed in clusters around the area’s edge. The crowd grew to more than 50 people within the hour, many draped in keffiyehs and hoisting Palestinian flags high above their heads.

   2025 June 27, Lila Hempel-Edgers, Damenica Ellis, “Protesters gathered in uptown Charlotte to oppose Trump bombing of Iran sites”, in The Charlotte Observer, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2026, Politics & Government

plural Palestinians · alternative Palæstinian · alternative Palestinean

1. datedAny inhabitant of Palestine, whether Arab, Jewish, or otherwise.
2. An Arab inhabitant of Palestine.

   فقال لي الأستاذ أنت مصري قلت لا بل فلسطيني

   The Soundest Divisions in Understanding the Regions

   985, شمس الدين المقدسي [Shams al-Din al-Maqdisi], أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [The Soundest Divisions in Understanding the Regions], published 1906, page 440, lines 8-9; quoted and translated into English in Zakariyeh Mohammed, “Maqdisi: An 11th Century Palestinian Consciousness”, in Jerusalem Quarterly, number 22/23, Institute for Palestine Studies, 2005, page 89

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   In 2008 the Rozana Association […] instituted a Maftoul Festival in Bir Zeit, near Ramallah, celebrating the many tasty ways in which Palestinians cook maftoul, or couscous.

   2011, Sarah Irving, Palestine, Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 24

   We got a message back from Israel that they were withdrawing their troops immediately from Lebanon. We are notifying the Syrians and the Lebanese and demanding that they mutually participate in a cease-fire and withdrawal of the Palestinians back ten kilometers from the Israeli borders.

   2011 [1977 September 24], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107

   About 3 million Palestinians live in the West Bank, plus an estimated 2.1 million in Gaza. Around 98% are Sunni Muslim, with a small Christian minority. Another estimated 2 million Palestinians live in Israel as citizens. Of the Palestinians living in the Middle East, about 5.9 million are registered refugees (in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria) whose claims to land in present-day Israel constitute a major issue of Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

   2025 May 14, “The Palestinians: Overview, Aid, and U.S. Policy Issues”, in congress.gov