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Palestinians in Israel constitute a rare case study in modern history, one of a community that lost most of its cities almost overnight, when during and immediately after the Nakba, Zionist military forces executed a semi-complete effacement of a majority of Palestinian cities. Seventy-one years after Israel’s sweeping attempts to de-urbanize Palestinian social life, Palestinians have forged alternative cultural and intellectual initiatives to practice their “right to the city” in Israel. Attending to the phenomena of cultural spaces and cultural cities, this talk will display how cultural urban policies operate in settler colonial cities, and how indigenous cultural urban spaces confront and comply with these policies. It will illustrate how social, political, and economic conditions shape the emergence of Palestinian cultural spaces, arguing that these “Palestinian cultural pockets” challenge urban power relations, the subordinated status of Palestinians’ citizenship, and revive their historical right to the city .