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Geography
The majority of the Arab American population is California resides in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Diego County, San Benardino County, and San Mateo County. Of the total 817,455 Arab Americans in California, Palestinian Americans make up roughly 7%. This number totals to approximately 5,722 people. Of this number, 2,306 Palestinians live in Los Angeles county. However, this number is suggested to be significantly lower than the actual number of Palestinian Americans in this county because of census factors such as how the ethnicity question is listed and what options are given.

Institutions
The Palestinian diaspora in Los Angeles has a variety of organizations and institutional groups.

Political organizations with chapters in Los Angeles include: Al-awda, dedicated to the Palestinian right of return, Palestinian American Women’s Association, which works toward the empowerment and education of Arab American women and children, and American Muslims for Palestine, which works toward educating people about Palestine in order to motivate changes in US foreign policy regarding Palestine.

Los Angeles County also has humanitarian relief organizations such as: Palestinian Children’s relief, a non profit which focuses on providing medical relief and aid for younger Palestinians in the Middle East,, and Islamic Relief which provides humanitarian aid to communities after disasters.

Irvine 11
On February 8, 2010, Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Israel, was invited to speak at University of California, Irvine in a talk titled “US & Israel: Relations from a Historical and Personal Perspective.” 10 students from UC Irvine and UC Riverside interrupted the speech, demonstrating a nonviolent form of protest as they spoke out against Israel's refusal to acknowledge the deaths that had taken place in the Gaza Strip earlier that year. Eleven individuals in total were arrested, resulting in the name Irvine 11. The protestors went to court and they were ruled as guilty of two misdemeanors.