May 2021 saw another “escalation of violence” in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. While Israel officially called it operation “Law and order”, a coalition of various Palestinian activist groups dubbed it the Unity Intifada. This remarkable label underscored a diversified yet unified uprise of resistance: in the West Bank, in Gaza, among ’48 Palestinians as well as among refugees and permanently exiled Palestinians abroad. This paper will critically engage with this ‘ Unity Intifada’ by placing it in the historical context of a continuum of resistance and by analysing the process of unification by acknowledging, accepting and formalizing difference. Based on 19 month of fieldwork research in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories including besieged Gaza and annexed East Jerusalem and six months of fieldwork research focused on the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign in South Africa, this paper presents a combination of ethnographic description of activism and resistance with critical historical analysis. As such, it will argue that: 1) the unprecedented unity of Palestinian activism and resistance as evidenced in the Spring of 2021 should not be seen as simply overcoming internal division, but as an evolution in the collective response to those divide and rule practices, and 2) that this unity should not be understood as a shift towards one shared political discourse or preferred strategy of action perse. Quite on the contrary, it reflects a process of successful pillarization of different forms of activism and resistance with each their own narrative and strategy which successfully unite in targeting different demographical sections and divergent aspects of occupation, dispossession, repression, house demolition, restriction in movement, apartheid and overall settler colonialism: Unity through pillarization. This paper can be presented in either a panel with a focus on contemporary Israel-Palestine but would also nicely fit in a session about contemporary activism and resistance in the Middle East.