Palestine Party leader
Ziad al-Nakhalah
زياد النخالةSecretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad since 2018. Operates from Beirut; central figure in the group's strategic alignment with Iran and Hezbollah.
- Country
- Palestine
- Role
- Party leader
Inherited position
Until Ziad al-Nakhalah is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.
Briefs about Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Palestinian Islamic Jihad to other parties. 1 brief on file.
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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Speech Arabic 2024-10-07 Ziad al-Nakhalah (PIJ Secretary-General) — PROPOSED, EMPTY EXCERPT: no durable verbatim long-form located (verbatim fragments in Candidate quotes)
[EMPTY: no durable continuous 500+ token verbatim primary located after an exhaustive search. al-Nakhalah's long-form words exist only as (a) Arabic TV video or (b) paywalled MEMRI transcripts; every freely-durable…
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Speech Arabic 2023-11-24 Ziad al-Nakhalah (Secretary-General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad) — televised speech during the first Gaza truce, 24 Nov 2023 (full text via Al-Quds News): the enemy's captured officers/soldiers will not be released except by freeing ALL Palestinian prisoners, tied to ending the war ("everyone for everyone"). Supplies verbatim content for his previously-empty placeholder doc.
ونحن ما زلنا عند موقفنا، لن يخرج باقي أسرى العدو من الضباط والجنود دون حرية كل أسرانا، وهذا مرتبط بنهاية العدوان، وليس قبل ذلك بأي حال من الأحوال. وامتدادًا لذلك، فإننا بصمود مقاتلينا، وقتالهم في الميدان، سنجبر العدو…
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). Ziad al-Nakhalah [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ziad-al-nakhalah
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Ziad al-Nakhalah." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ziad-al-nakhalah.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-ziad-al-nakhalah,
title = {{Ziad al-Nakhalah}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ziad-al-nakhalah},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
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 August 6, 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 = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.