Palestine Party leader
Marwan Barghouti
مروان البرغوثيSenior Fatah figure and the most popular elected Palestinian political prisoner in Israel — held since 2002, serving five life sentences. He has consistently polled as the favorite to win a Palestinian presidential election since 2005, despite never being on a ballot. He emerged in October 2024 hostage-deal negotiations as a name floated by Hamas but rejected by the Israeli government. Symbolic of the absent Palestinian political succession.
Individual position
Scored from Marwan Barghouti's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. The overlay shows Fatah's profile for comparison. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.
Briefs about Fatah
Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Fatah to other parties. 1 brief on file.
Other politicians in Fatah
Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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English 2002-01-16 Marwan Barghouti — 'Want Security? End the Occupation' (The Washington Post, 16 January 2002)
The only way for Israelis to have security is, quite simply, to end the 35-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The lack of Israeli security is born of the lack of Palestinian freedom. We Palestinians…
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Article English 2002-01-16 Marwan Barghouti — "Want Security? End the Occupation" (Washington Post op-ed, 2002)
The only way for Israelis to have security is, quite simply, to end the 35-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. Israelis must abandon the myth that it is possible to have peace and occupation at the…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Marwan Barghouti [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/marwan-barghouti
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Marwan Barghouti." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/marwan-barghouti.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-marwan-barghouti,
title = {{Marwan Barghouti}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/marwan-barghouti},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.