Palestine is not universally recognized as a state and experiences only restricted sovereignty. The protracted conflict with Israel limits Palestine’s access to official tools of international relations and diplomacy. Palestine has to rely instead on soft power tools like public diplomacy and international cultural cooperation as alternative avenues of international engagement and communication with the wider world. The paper construes the Palestinian Authority's (PA) cultural policies as tools to preserve and represent its culture in the conflict with Israel in the international as well as the domestic sphere. We develop a map of Palestine’s cultural policy and put the tools into a political context. The present study gives fresh insights into cultural aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It deepens our understanding of the role culture and cultural policy play in intractable conflicts and it contributes to our knowledge of cultural policy-making and cultural diplomacy.