Who Rebuilds Gaza? Indigenous Reconstruction and Resistance
Introduction After Hamas’s recent announcement that it will hand over governing authority in Gaza to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), urgent questions about who will shape Gaza’s future and on whose terms have reemerged. These questions are particularly salient given that the NCAG’s framework reflects the same technocratic and externally imposed […]
The Families of Gaza: Sumud as Collective Endurance
Introduction Since October 2023, Israel’s genocide has fueled two persistent and deeply polarizing narratives about Gaza, organized around a stark binary and circulated across Palestinian communities and globally. On one side, Gaza is positioned as unconquered: a place that did not surrender, whose population endured unprecedented violence without capitulation, and where the Israeli regime’s declared […]
US Sanctions: Criminalizing Palestinian and Global Justice Work
Introduction In February 2021, Defense for Children International–Palestine (DCIP) reported that Israeli interrogators had raped a 15-year-old Palestinian boy while he was detained in Israel’s al-Mascubiyya prison in East Jerusalem. DCIP shared the allegation with US State Department officials, who reportedly raised it with Israeli authorities. However, rather than investigate the abuse, Israeli forces raided […]
Palestine and the Shrinking Space for Dissent in the UK
This roundtable is published in partnership with the British Palestinian Committee. Introduction On November 4, 2025, the UK government tabled an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill to curtail protest rights under the pretext of “cumulative disruption.” The revised Bill is now in the House of Lords Committee, where it is scrutinized before […]
De-Healthification of Palestine with Layth Malhis
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Layth Malhis 0:00 With de-healthification, we can recenter at least what is happening to the individual, and that is the body and the individual. And that the human is being de-healthified, that their health is what is being targeted and their access to their […]
De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life
Introduction Since October 2023, Israel’s genocidal military campaign in Gaza has led to the collapse of nearly every pillar of the territory’s healthcare system. The Israeli occupation forces bombed hospitals, killed medical personnel, obstructed humanitarian convoys, and decimated critical infrastructure. Major human rights organizations have documented that the destruction of healthcare in Gaza is systematic […]
The World Radicalized by the Gaza Genocide
This commentary is based on Tareq Baconi’s contributions at an October 2025 panel event with Novara Media. The recording may be viewed in full here. Introduction October 7, 2023, marked a paradigmatic rupture in how Palestine is discussed and imagined. Until that moment, international discourse had been trapped in the vocabulary of statehood and peace […]
Global March to Gaza: Lessons from Egypt with Engy Sarhan
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Engy Sarhan 0:00 I think when we say Gaza is our moral compass, it’s not really an empty slogan. And I think one can always ask, is the action that I’m doing centering the dignity of the Palestinians? I think there’s a responsibility in […]
Israel’s War on Palestinian Journalists
Over the last 18 months, Israeli forces have killed more than 230 journalists, primarily in Gaza but also in Lebanon and Syria. To put this in perspective, more journalists have been killed during Israel’s ongoing genocide than in both world wars, the US invasions of Vietnam and Afghanistan, and the war in Ukraine combined. All […]
