Writing in The Conversation, Dr Anne Irfan (UCL Arts and Sciences) delves into America's historic stance on the Palestinian Authority (PA) and explains how the Trump administration's recent moves blocking the PA are less of a departure from long-term US policy that they may seem. At the end of August, the Trump administration blocked Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and 80 other Palestinian officials from attending the UN general assembly meeting in New York, which runs between September 9