Palestinians dealt with a confluence of events this quarter (16 February–15 May 2018) that kept interrelated issues alive on social media platforms. Land Day and the seventieth year of the 1948 Nakba were marked by the Great March of Return in Gaza, launched on 30 March, and the symbolic opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on 14 May. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip staged weeks-long protests against the ten-year Israeli siege of the enclave and demanded the right of return for refugees. Others in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel took to the streets in solidarity and also to protest the relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.

Palestine Unbound strives to capture the tenor and content of popular conversations related to the Palestinians and the Arab-Israeli conflict held on dynamic platforms unbound by traditional media. Items selected here are from a variety of sources and have either gone viral or represent a significant cultural moment or trend. This quarter's news includes the rejection of a hasbara junket to Israel by six National Football League players, kicked off by a tweet from Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett; a flurry of satirical Arabic Facebook posts titled “Before and After the PA” that cast a critical eye at the Palestinian Authority; the trending Valentine's Day hashtag, “#WeLoveYouPalestine”; and Palestinian Twitter's response to U.S. president Donald Trump's repetition of an Israeli talking point.