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Whose Terms?

Israel–Palestine, explored through interactive cases.

See how
power works.

Explore how rules, institutions, and choices shape lives in Israel–Palestine. Follow a focused case. Examine the evidence. Build an explanation you can support.

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Simulations & learning tools · Created by Yoav Duman

Open now / Institutions and unequal access

The Common Fund

The Common Fund. Whose Terms? Created by Yoav Duman. An open ledger connects two people to olive groves, a workshop, a clinic, and a boardroom in a blue illustrated landscape.

Who can claim what the collective builds?

Created by Yoav Duman
Core about 60 minutes · Full about 90 minutes

Build the rules of a fictional cooperative in Palestine, 1905–1948. Use Shafir and Peled’s Being Israeli to investigate how work, national belonging, donor finance, and institutional authority shape who gains access and who is left out.

9 or 11 decisions. Historical evidence, configurable writing, save and return, and a complete classroom packet.

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Open now / Representation & political power

A Seat, With Conditions

Illustrated cover of A Seat, With Conditions: an empty chair and notebook face a cutaway civic building with uneven rooms, stairways, and an externally controlled doorway. Whose Terms? Created by Yoav Duman.

Who sets the terms?

Created by Yoav Duman
Estimated 90–120 minutes · Pause after encounter 9

Advise a fictional Palestinian civic committee. Build public work, seek representation, and inspect the powers that remain outside the room.

Through Rashid Khalidi’s The Iron Cage. 18 encounters, two after-outcome reflections, and a complete classroom packet.

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Open now / Citizenship & belonging

A Right on Paper

A Right on Paper. What makes a right usable? A Whose Terms? investigation. Created by Yoav Duman.

What makes a right usable?

Created by Yoav Duman
Estimated 90–120 minutes · Solo or pairs

A job offer. A benefit. A household. A court order. Work through the people and institutions that connect a claim to an outcome.

Based on Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled’s Being Israeli. A self-contained browser simulation for introductory students and curious readers.

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Follow the author.
Keep your judgment.

Each case connects scholarly ideas to a question you can investigate. Learn the explanation, use evidence, consider an alternative, and identify what remains uncertain. The case supplies the context needed to begin.

Whose Terms? is a collection of Israel–Palestine simulations and learning tools. These simulations run in your browser. Sources, creator credit, and constructed material are identified within the case.

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