Student Organizing & Change-Making on University Campuses

This commentary is based on an episode of Rethinking Palestine, Al-Shabaka’s podcast series, which aired on May 27, 2024. The discussion may be listened to in full here. In April 2024, students at Columbia University set up an encampment on campus grounds in solidarity with the Palestinian people—particularly those in Gaza facing the ongoing genocide.  […]

Seeking Justice for Israel’s Genocide in Palestine: An Interview with Inès Abdel Razek

Palestine Before and After Oct 7: Was There Any Real Difference?

Palestinian Genocide Survivors in Egypt

Palestinian Genocide Survivors in Egypt

The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.   Ali 0:00 Life in Egypt for the Palestinians from Gaza is mixed of relief and hardship. We are grateful for the safety and the opportunity we have, but the constant struggle to make ends meet, find houses and deal with the legal uncertainties make […]

The Floating Gaza Pier: A Symbol of Future Colonial Plans

On May 17, 2024, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) began operating a temporary floating pier off the coast of Gaza. The pier’s construction was purportedly part of a rapid international response to ensure larger flows of humanitarian and relief aid into Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing genocide and escalating warnings of wide-spreading famine and food insecurity […]

Salman Al-Zurai’i

Salman Al-Zurai’i is a researcher and policy analyst based in Gaza. He holds a BA in political science from Al-Azhar University in Gaza and currently works as a researcher and a human rights activist with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Al-Zurai’i previously worked as an assistant researcher and policy analyst at the Studies Unit at […]

Mohammed Al-Hafi

Mohammed Al-Hafi is a Palestinian academic and researcher of international politics based in Gaza. He is the director of the Studies Unit at the Palestinian Department of Labor and Planning. He earned his PhD in political philosophy from Alexandria University in 2013 and has published numerous studies and research papers. 

The Enduring and Racist Trope of Palestinian Rejectionism

Since the beginning of the Zionist project in Palestine, large efforts have been exerted to paint all resistance to its colonial endeavors as irrational and at odds with progress and modernity. From the onset, Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism, envisioned that local Palestinian Arabs would welcome the progress brought by Zionist colonizers and greet […]

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