In this paper, the intertwining trajectories of Palestinian citizens and the Israeli-Zionist state are a window into the dialectic relationship that exists between ‘power’ and ‘resistance’. Ever in contention, ever in conversation, dynamics of power and resistance dislodge, dislocate and displace one another, transformed through their intersections and interactions. Thus to understand Palestinian struggle is to see it as part of the field of force. Situated in and surrounded by the colonial context, it mirrors its logics and fetishisations, shares its language and its ethos. And yet, because it is a colonial story, this relationship is articulated in binaries, dichotomies and partitions. The Israeli colonial geography is determined in the ethnicisation of territory, in which the indigenous Palestinian is always othered, outside and absent; a threat to be removed and then replaced. And yet, Palestinian citizens, who make up 20% of the country populous, are inducted into the political and spatial order of the state, permeated by and permeating the Zionist project, even as they are explicitly excluded from it. The material expression of this tension is the production of Palestinian enclaves and frontiers; spaces that are always under siege, increasingly constricted and contained, inherently segregated and illegitimate within the hegemonic order. Palestinian resistance is thus produced in relation to the deep chasms, ghettos and fractures that colour the ethnocratic, settler-colonial landscape. The locus of which is anchored in the fight for Palestinian land and space, against (and enclosed within) the Judaising logic of the Israeli state. In this paper, different facets of Palestinian land struggles are explored in their encounters with the multiple borders that attempt to contain them. The analysis is based on more than 2 years of ethnographic field-work with three contemporary cases of community land-struggles: A popular movement for housing rights (and thus survival) in Palestinian neighbourhoods of Jaffa-Tel Aviv; an enduring protest-movement against the Judaization project in the Galilee region; and the existential struggle for land rights of Bedouin communities in the southern desert. Through investigating their moments of containment, contention and transgression, we unravel how resistance is entangled with the structures of power. And through analysis of these everyday and insurgent struggles, we gage how the boundary lines – and thus the structures of power that define them – are produced and reproduced; how they are challenged, unveiled and disarticulated, and even transcended and transformed.