Towards Palestinian Liberation Global Perspectives on Anti-Colonial Resistance and Solidarity
Beyond the headlines, Towards Palestinian Liberation offers a deeper understanding of Palestine as a global anti-colonial struggle. Bringing together scholars and activists from around the world, this collection challenges mainstream narratives and highlights the solidarities shaping the struggle for liberation today.
An essential read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of justice and liberation in Palestine.
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María Landi
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Rafeef Ziadah
While awareness and global solidarity with Palestine have grown, mainstream frameworks often remain narrowly focused. Common approaches typically confine the issue to Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, or reduce solidarity to a matter of human rights and international law violations.
Although engaging formal institutions to end Israel’s genocide, apartheid, and occupation is a necessary strategy, such a focus can inadvertently depoliticize the Palestinian struggle. It frequently overlooks the foundational settler-colonial nature of the Israeli state, the unwavering material and ideological support it receives from Western powers, and Palestine’s profound significance within broader historical and contemporary anti-colonial movements.
The ongoing Western-backed genocide has starkly revealed the political divergence between the West and the Global South. In contrast to institutional complicity and failure, the enduring legacy of anti-colonial solidarity across the Global South has resurfaced as a vital force. As liberal international systems prove ineffective, rebuilding and strengthening transnational solidarity networks has become an urgent imperative to halt the genocide and achieve a liberated Palestine.
A deeper understanding requires a framework that connects Palestine to wider regional dynamics, global power structures, and the long arc of anti-colonial resistance. Towards Palestinian Liberation is an edited volume that reaffirms the Palestinian struggle as an intersectional and transnational anti-colonial fight.
Bringing together diverse perspectives from scholars and activists worldwide, this collection moves beyond mainstream narratives. It explores the interconnectedness of global struggles, examines the role of economic and political interests, and critically assesses the opportunities and challenges facing international solidarity movements. This book is essential for anyone committed to understanding—and advancing—the cause of justice and liberation in Palestine.
Praise for Towards Palestinian Liberation
"I can think of no other book that addresses the question of solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians as urgently and as eloquently as this collection"
– Laleh Khalili, author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration
"This book is a living archive of resistance – unfolding across geographies, histories, and generations … If there is one book to read in these times, this is it"
– Madhuresh Kumar, Resistance Studies Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst; former national convener of the National Alliance of People’s Movements, India.
"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why Palestinian liberation cannot be separated from revolutionary and anti-colonial struggles across the world… [it] will play a vital role in educating anew generation of activist"
– Anne Alexander, author of Revolution is the Choice of People
"Here, for the first time, we get a chance to see Palestine and its struggle through the eyes of the majority of humanity – the global South, that is … an invaluable resource"
– Andreas Malm, author of The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
"The Palestinian struggle for liberation is inseparable from histories of anti-colonial resistance and internationalist solidarity …this volume reclaims that radical tradition"
– Omar Jabary Salamanca, Professor of Social Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles
Table of contents
Foreword. Karma Nabulsi
INTRODUCTION: The Long and Arduous Road to a Liberated Palestine: Reclaiming Anti-Colonial Resistance and Solidarity. Abi Bae and Hamza Hamouchene
SECTION 1: Palestinian Liberation: An Anti-Imperial, Eco-Just and Transnational Struggle
Chapter 1: Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf States, and American Power in the Middle East. Adam Hanieh
Chapter 2: Palestine in a World of Struggle: The Role of Palestinians in Third World Solidarity. Wael Omar
Chapter 3: Sustainability Fantasies / Genocidal Realities: Palestine Against an Eco-Apartheid World. Asmaa Ashraf and Vijay Kolinjivadi
Chapter 4: Out-Organise the Enemy! Eqbal Ahmad and the Liberation of Palestine. Arun Kundnani
SECTION 2: From Palestine to Africa and the Arab World
Chapter 5: African Attitudes to, and Solidarity with, Palestine from the 1940s to Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. Kribsoo Diallo
Chapter 6: Failing Palestine by Failing the Sudanese Revolution: Lessons from the Intersections of Sudan and Palestine in Politics, Media and Organising. Muzan Alneel
Chapter 7: “The Condition for Freedom Is for the Egyptian Masses to Take to the Streets”: Egypt’s Centrality in the Struggle for Palestine. Nihal El Aasar
SECTION 3: From Palestine to Asia
Chapter 8: Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the Torch of the Anti-Colonial Struggle. Hamza Hamouchene
Chapter 9: From Global Anti-Imperialism to the Dandelion Fighters: China’s Solidarity with Palestine from 1950 to 2025. Zhang Sheng
Chapter 10: India, Israel, Palestine: New Equations Demand New Solidarities. Achin Vanaik
SECTION 4: From Palestine to the Americas
Chapter 1 1 : Yalla, Yalla, Abya Yala: Reaching Out to Palestine from Latin America in Times of Genocide. María Landi
Chapter 12: From the Favelas and Rural Brazil to Gaza: How Militarism and Greenwashing Shape Solidarity with Palestine and Resistance in Brazil. Andressa Oliveira Soares
Chapter 13: From Turtle Island to Palestine: Resisting Settler Colonialism and Genocide. Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel
Afterword. Rafeef Ziadah
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María Landi
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Rafeef Ziadah
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