Tareq Baconi

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.