Tareq Baconi

Gaza Without Pretenses

For years Israel and Hamas maintained an unstable equilibrium that kept the Gaza Strip contained. But it was always likely to be temporary.  

Enforcing Apartheid in the West Bank

After settlers attacked a Palestinian village last week, Israeli politicians called it an outbreak of lawlessness. But the army covered the settlers' every move.

What Apartheid Means for Israel

A growing consensus has formed around the term—not as a rhetorical comparison to South Africa, but describing a system of domination built on the partition of Palestine.

Israel’s Annexation, Palestinian Resistance

The Palestinian leadership has been almost entirely absent from the debate on annexation, even though this plan represents the starkest confirmation to date of the failure of its statehood project.

A Year of Gaza Protests

The rightward trajectory of Israel’s politics and the growing consensus behind Israel’s de facto annexation of the West Bank are unwittingly beginning to transform Palestinians, formerly fragmented, into a single collective entity facing different aspects of the same oppressive power.

What the Gaza Protests Portend

From Sharpeville to Selma, the history of marches for civil and political rights is long and bloody. Whether this new Palestinian movement bends toward justice depends on whether the international community will tolerate Israel’s capacity to deny an entire people their basic rights.