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Tareq Baconi traces the group from its inception in the Muslim Brotherhood, to an armed resistance group, and then a democratically elected party. How did the group rise to power in Gaza? What were the conditions under which they adopted violence as a strategy? Did October 7 go as planned, or was there a miscalculation? And how is Tareq making sense of this moment in time, in the face of the ongoing genocide by Israel against the people of Palestine?
"The conference on the decolonisation of Palestine was organised jointly by Progressive International, the Palestinian thinktank Al-Shabaka and the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies at Birzeit. The university’s academics and students have had a long history of protest and clashes with Israeli forces, and the campus has been repeatedly raided by Israeli forces over the last two years."
I was too young to have witnessed this myself; I was only two in 1985. The entry in Tata’s diary, dated August 20 of that year, notes that she had heard deeply upsetting news on TV. I assemble the rest of the scene with recycled anecdotes, which is easy to do, because that evening has become the stuff of family folklore.
As Gaza's misery deepens, secret flights approved by Israel offer a way out. But many fear they are laying the groundwork for a silent population transfer. Al-Shabaka's US policy fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa speaks to The New Arab about the issue.
In this episode of The Amargi Mosaic, host Elif Sarican speaks with Yara Hawari about how different forms of storytelling — from her novel The Stone House to oral history — shape Palestinian political and social narratives. They explore how Palestinian women navigate the dual pressures of living under occupation and confronting internal patriarchal structures, including the social expectations surrounding grief and mourning.
Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire’. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.
The global Palestine solidarity movement is at a crossroads as traditional forms of advocacy have become too easy for governments to ignore. Moving forward, the movement must shift from reactive protests to building lasting political power.
Tareq Baconi, board president at Palestinian think tank Al-Shabaka, joins this episode of the Let’s Talk Palestine Podcast to explore the central role of displacement in shaping Palestinian identity.Amid the brutality of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Tareq reflects on how this moment is transforming Palestinians not only in Gaza but across the world, as well as what this genocide will mean for those who have been complicit.
The ICJ ruling on allowing aid into Gaza also reaffirmed the illegality of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land. The test now is not legal, but political
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