What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future
The following is an excerpt from What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future, written by Al-Shabaka analyst Tareq Baconi and published by Washington Square Press on November 3, 2026. In a moment of genocide, we have no revolutionary leadership at the helm of our struggle. This is, perhaps, one of the most […]
Standing on the Rubble: Ruins and the Work of Mourning
A Return to Revolutionary Principles with Tareq Baconi
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Tareq Baconi 0:00 I think that imagination by Indigenous communities or communities that are facing extreme violence is the most incredible act of resistance. This imagining is something that happens for Palestinians by Palestinians. In the deepest corners of our interiority, we’re thinking about […]
“Zionism is racist”: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tareq Baconi & Nesrine Malik
South-South Solidarity and Resistance to Imperialism
Disarming Resistance: The Trilateral Framework Agreement
Introduction On June 26, 2026, Lebanon, the US, and the Israeli regime signed a Trilateral Framework against the backdrop of fierce military attacks on Lebanon and the invasion of its south. This aggression was part of the broader US-Israeli regional assault that also devastated Iran, Syria, and Palestine, upending the geopolitical order. In this commentary, […]
Palestine as a Transnational Anti-Colonial Struggle
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Hamza Hamouchene 0:00 The dehumanizing and deadly forces of capital and empire are really bent on destroying hope and killing the idea of resistance. We cannot fall in the webs of defeatism. We need to nurture the idea of hope, to find it by […]
Under Siege: The West Bank After October 7
Introduction The ongoing genocide in Gaza is not an isolated episode in the Israeli settler-colonial project. Since 1948, Palestinians have been continuously and violently displaced across and from Palestine. But as the Israeli regime began its latest genocidal campaign in Gaza three years ago, it has also escalated ethnic cleansing in the West Bank through […]
Genocide and the Limits of Israeli Elections
With Israelis heading to the polls next month, international attention has mainly focused on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition can cling to power. Meanwhile, liberal Zionists have cast Israel’s opposition candidates as a more “moderate” alternative to Netanyahu’s government. Yet across the Israeli political spectrum, a broad consensus persists around maintaining […]
