The Future of the West Bank: Settler Takeover and Annexation
Introduction “We’re all going to end up in Jordan,” remarked a young man from Al-Jiftlik, a Palestinian village in the Jordan Valley. His comment reflects growing despair in the West Bank countryside, where Israeli settler-colonial expansion has intensified to unprecedented levels. This is particularly true in the Jordan Valley, the agricultural heartland along the West […]
Educational Freedom in Palestine
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 […]
The NCAG: Gaza’s Technocratic Turn to Genocide Management
Introduction The announcement of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), a 15-member technocratic body chaired by Ali Shaath, signals a shift toward depoliticized governance in Gaza amid ongoing genocide. Shaath, a Palestinian civil engineer and former deputy minister of planning and international cooperation, is positioned to lead an interim governing structure tasked […]
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 […]
2025 in Review: Palestine and the Fight for Liberation
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Yara Hawari 0:00 Al-Shabaka’s Rethinking Palestine Podcast produces content that not only speaks to the pivotal moment in the Palestinian struggle for liberation, but also challenges the hegemonic narratives that have allowed the continued settler colonization of Palestine. More recently, the genocide in Gaza […]
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 […]
Legitimizing Genocide: The Israel-Trump Plan and Gaza’s Future
In the wake of the so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel has continued killing Palestinians, demolishing entire neighborhoods, and entrenching its control over the land. Meanwhile, the UNSC has officially endorsed US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza, effectively granting international legitimacy for perpetual Israeli-US occupation and laying the groundwork for a return to “business […]
Christian Zionism in the Global South: The Case of South Africa
In the nineteenth century, European empires used Christian missions to legitimize their conquest of African lands, seize resources, and entrench cultural domination. Mission schools and churches spread Western values, undermined African traditions, and framed service to the empire as service to God. Within this broader imperial landscape, British evangelicals began advancing a political vision for […]
