Health Sciences and Genocide Prevention in Gaza and Beyond
Introduction Genocide is an eliminatory process through which perpetrators seek the destruction of a group with detrimental consequences for population health and well-being. Article II(c) of the 1948 Genocide Convention clearly defines “[d]eliberately inflicting on [a] group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction” as an act of genocide that is “committed […]
Christian Zionism in the Global South with Fathi Nimer
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Fathi Nimer 00:00 The struggle against Christian Zionism is also a struggle against colonial interests in the region. It’s not simply ideological because it has a reflection on the material reality. And people can be helped to understand this, but it requires renewed grassroots […]
Animal Welfare and Hierarchies of Suffering in Gaza
Introduction On November 14, 2025, German media described four donkeys transported from Gaza by the Israeli organization Starting Over Sanctuary as having been “rescued,” before they were relocated to a zoo in Oppenheim. The animals were given German names and described as having “left behind hunger and misery, beatings and hardship.” Missing from the coverage […]
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 ICJ Opinions on Palestine: Possibilities and Limitations
Introduction Writing about the effectiveness of international law in Palestine is particularly fraught in the midst of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the ongoing settler-colonial project. Growing skepticism about international law has led some legal analysts to question its relevance or even declare its demise. Yet while international law emerged within modern imperial structures, […]
Palestinian Intellectual History with Sabri Jiryis
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Yara Hawari 0:00 From Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, I am Yara Hawari, and this is Rethinking Palestine. The Foundations of Zionism was originally published in Arabic over two volumes in 1977 and 1986, written by renowned Palestinian scholar and former director of the […]
The Gulf and Israel: War, Normalization, and the Global Economy
Introduction The US-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon, as well as the ongoing genocide in Palestine, are reshaping the political landscape of the region. Alliances are being recalibrated, and old assumptions about US power are being tested. The war has also underscored how deeply the global economy remains tied to fossil fuels and to the […]
War, Political Economy, and Palestine
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Diana Buttu 0:00 Before October of 2023, there was a real push within Israel to push forward this normalization project. And the normalization project was, in large part, to send the message to the Israeli public that they never really need to do anything […]
Palestine, Iran, and the Unraveling of Western Hegemony
Introduction People across the world are living through a moment of profound crisis. The ongoing genocide in Gaza, the US-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon, the resulting energy and economic shocks, and the erosion of the international legal order are unfolding alongside the fragmentation of the Western-led global system. Together, these converging tremors are exposing […]
