صمود المقاومة كممارسة يومية

Sumud, meaning “steadfastness” or “steadfast perseverance” in Arabic, is a common term used to describe Palestinian nonviolent everyday resistance against Israel's occupation. The term itself entered political discourse as a national symbol during the 1960s, but the collective Palestinian consciousness of struggle for staying on Palestinian land is part of a longer historical development of resistance to oppression and dispossession. The concept of sumud has acquired several meanings and applications at various junctures of the Palestinian struggle against ethnic cleansing. Rather than having a fixed definition, sumud is a continuum of goals and practices of resistance that have been responsive to changes in the dialectic of oppression and resistance.