Over the past century, Palestinian women's political protest has been anchored in nationalist responses to colonialism, dispossession, and military occupation. Despite a tumultuous history marked by serial crises, social fragmentation, and statelessness, women's forms and focuses of protest have been remarkably enduring.

A defining moment in the history of women's organized protest was the 1929 gathering of 200 elite Muslim and Christian women in Jerusalem to found the Arab Women's Congress; resolutions against Zionist colonization were delivered to the Briti…