Talal Abdul Jabbar Ismail Abu Afifa

Personal Info

Country of residence: Palestine

Gender: Male

Born in: 1953

Information

Talal Abdul Jabbar Ismail Abu Afifa is a Palestinian figure born in Jerusalem in 1953. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Beirut Arab University in 1978, and obtained a law degree from the Jordanian Bar Association in 1991.

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He studied primary school in the schools of Jerusalem, and secondary school in the Hashemite School in Al -Bireh .
He worked as an employee in the Ministry of Justice in the UAE between 1978 and 1979.
He worked as a journalist for Al-Fajr newspaper in Jerusalem between 1980 and 1993.
He worked as Director General at the Ministry of Youth and Sports between 1994 and 1996.
Legal advisor to the Ministry of Youth from 1996 until his retirement in 2005.

Belonging

Talal Abu Afifa joined the Fatah movement in 1972 and was active in planning and implementing its national activities.
He founded the General Union of Youth Committees for Social Work in the Occupied Territories and was its president from 1981 to 1985. He was responsible for the Fatah movement in Jerusalem from 1985 to 1988.
Member of the Supreme Movement Committee of the Fatah Movement in the West Bank between 1991 and 1996.
Member of the Mobilization and Organization Office between (1996-2009).
Member of the Fatah Movement's Movement Court (2010-2016). He ran in the 2006 legislative elections, but did not win.

He was expelled from the Fatah movement.

He was expelled from the movement for running for election as an independent, and the expulsion was later turned into a fifteen-month suspension.
Among those who wrote in support of the settlement project while he was in Shatta prison , where he wrote an article in 1989 that was published in Al-Fajr newspaper.
He participated in the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991 as part of the advisory committees supporting the Palestinian negotiating delegation.

Bar Association membership

Abu Afifa has been a member of the Jordanian Bar Association since 1982.
Member of the Palestinian Bar Association since 2006. Member of the General Secretariat of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors, and member of the Palestinian Civilian Retirees Authority.

Activity

He participated in dozens of youth and cultural conferences in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and abroad.
Active on the cultural and social levels.
He was the head of the Palestinian Al-Farafeer Theatre Troupe between 1974 and 1986.
Head of the Social Youth Center in Shuafat Camp for several terms.
President of the Jerusalem Intellectuals Forum, a cultural institution founded in 2003.
He worked as a cultural advisor to a number of youth organizations and institutions in the city of Jerusalem, including: the Jerusalem Sports Federations Association - Our Jerusalem, the Arab Sports Institute, and the Jerusalem Students Union.

Studies and research

He published a number of books and publications, including:
Palestinian Diplomacy (1984).
The Palestinian Strategy (1986).
Diplomacy and Strategy in Palestinian Politics over a Century (1998).
Youth Issues: Reality, Problems, and Needs (2004).
A Brief Introduction to the Palestinian Criminal Procedure Code (2011).
Explanation of the Penal Code - General Section (2012).
Fundamentals of Criminology and Punishment (2014).
Explanation of crimes against humanity (2016).
Explanation of crimes against property (2016).
Explanation of crimes against the public interest (2017), Explanation of crimes against state security (2019), and Reasons for children and youth turning to crime (2020).

His view of reform

He stopped what he described as the policy of "insults, accusations and treason" through the media, especially satellite channels.
Fatah leaders demanded an immediate halt to their talk about dividing the movement into "inside and outside," "loyalists and disloyalists," and "a national revolutionary current and a traitorous, collaborating current."
The reason for the collapse of Fatah in Gaza is due to factors, the first of which is Fatah’s “cliques, division, and failure to learn lessons from the movement’s failure in the second legislative elections and the procrastination in holding the sixth conference in ten years,” and the second is Israeli.

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