By Thinking Palestine Editors Introducing this issue, the editors confront the taboo surrounding Palestinian armed resistance, restoring its history, political foundations, contradictions and strategic dimensions to serious analysis. There are moments in history when intellectuals cannot afford to regard any subject as taboo. Yet, even amid the genocide in Gaza, one crucial dimension remains largely […]
By Ronnie Kasrils Drawing on South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, Ronnie Kasrils examines how armed resistance, mass mobilization, underground organization and international solidarity can advance Palestinian liberation. “Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.” – Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, UN […]
By Romana Rubeo Romana Rubeo traces nearly a century of Palestinian women’s resistance, restoring organizers, fighters, prisoners, journalists and caregivers to their central place in national history. In October 1929, hundreds of Palestinian women gathered in Jerusalem. They came from Jaffa and Haifa, Nablus and Akka, Ramallah, Jenin, Safad and elsewhere, at a moment of […]
By Robert Inlakesh Robert Inlakesh challenges claims that Israel created or propped up Hamas, showing how they distort Palestinian history and deny Palestinians political agency. Since October 7, 2023, a narrative has developed that seeks to explain away Hamas through an argument that holds Israel accountable for creating the Palestinian political party, often implying that […]
By Ramzy Baroud Tracing Gaza’s armed struggle from ancient defenses to modern tunnel warfare, Ramzy Baroud examines how geography, dispossession and Palestinian agency shaped an enduring resistance. Author’s note: For an extensive historical and structural analysis of the dynamics explored in this essay, see my latest book, Before the Flood. The Unforgiving Flatland Gaza is […]
By Tahrir Hamdi Drawing on anti-colonial thinkers and Palestine’s revolutionary history, Tahrir Hamdi argues that armed, cultural and economic resistance remain inseparable from liberation and return. How does one resist dispossession and displacement, ongoing genocide, culturicide, scholasticide and epistemicide, and all forms of erasure of a people’s past, present and future? The answer: Resist by […]
By Robert Inlakesh Robert Inlakesh traces the Axis of Resistance’s indigenous roots, showing how shared opposition to Zionism and imperial domination forged an alliance across national and sectarian lines. In an attempt to divide the region, separate West Asia from the historic Global South bloc, and to deter the support of natural allies on the […]