Towards Palestinian Liberation: How resistance travels across borders Submitted by Hossam el-Hamalawy on Wed, 07/15/2026 - 11:46 A new collection of essays places the struggle against Israel in a global context A protest against Israel's genocide in Gaza, in Los Angeles on 25 October 2023 (AFP) Off Written amid genocide, regional war and the collapse of a credible claim that the Western-led international order protects human life, Towards Palestinian Liberation challenges the paralysis that such devastation produces. Edited by Abi Bae and Hamza Hamouchene, the collection recovers liberation as both a historical possibility and a practical project. Its contributors examine how resistance is built, how it travels across borders and how movements transmit their knowledge to later generations.
The editors of the work reject the habit of treating every defeat as final. Their long approach places the present catastrophe within more than a century of Palestinian resistance and a wider history of anti-colonial struggle. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Hope emerges here through organisation, memory and collective action, rather than sentimentality.
The book insists that Palestine today cannot be reduced to a humanitarian emergency. Israel’s destruction of Gaza is situated within the colonial history of Zionism, the imperial interests that sustained it and the continuing project to eliminate or displace the Palestinian people. Restoring Palestine to history Adam Hanieh develops this argument by placing Israel within the political economy of American power and the changing structure of the Middle East.
Its power is sustained through US strategy, Gulf capital, energy corridors, trade networks and military normalisation. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Relations between Israel and the Gulf monarchies extend far beyond diplomacy. They form part of a regional order designed to integrate capital while suppressing Palestinian and Arab popular demands.
Palestinian liberation consequently requires more than a negotiated alteration of borders. It demands a confrontation with the structures that continually reproduce Israeli domination.
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