Islamic Jihad

Summary

The Palestinian faction with which Falk’s hunger strikers Khader Adnan and Hana Shalabi are associated, and whose own shift from violence Falk records in Part 3 (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.96, p.130).

Falk notes in the Introduction that Hamas has not taken responsibility for nonaffiliated allied actors such as Islamic Jihad (PDF p.19).
Adnan is presented as an Islamic Jihad member and, in recent years, its spokesperson, with no indication of direct involvement in violence (PDF p.96, p.101-102); Shalabi is presented as a member (PDF p.104), while her sister Zahra says she chose Islamic Jihad “on a whim” when prison security forces asked her faction (PDF p.113).
On tactics: Islamic Jihad “has seemingly abandoned” suicide bombings, in line with Hamas’s repudiation (PDF p.101-102), and “a more objective look at the evidence suggests that Islamic Jihad has itself for several years abandoned tactics of violence against civilian targets and is part of a broader shift in Palestinian tactics of resistance in the direction of nonviolence” (PDF p.130).
In the November 2012 ceasefire aftermath, Islamic Jihad’s flag flew in Gaza alongside those of the PA, Hamas and the PFLP in a street call for Palestinian unity (PDF p.88).