I Survived by Mistake

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

A crucial intervention in these tumultuous times – Yara Hawari, co-director at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network

A book that proves once again that writing and recording is itself resistance – Anuradha Chenoy, Adjunct Professor, Jindal Global University, India; Associate, Transnational Institute

Wide-ranging yet coherent, intellectually ambitious yet grounded in praxis – Hossam El-Hamalawi, scholar specialising in the Egyptian military and policing

An astonishing book – an answer to despair … I can think of no more necessary or important book for those of us determined to revolutionise our world – Leo Zeilig, writer, novelist and author of A Revolutionary of Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story

It stands as both an ode to hope and a practical manual for liberation – Shahd Hammouri, Lecturer in International Law and Legal Theory, University of Kent

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.

The authors in this urgent collection demonstrate the world-historic character of the struggle for Palestinian liberation – Thea Riofrancos, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

This is the book our moment demands – Omar Abdeljawad, writer and Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Palestine

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 a new generation of activists – Anne Alexander, author of Revolution is the Choice of People

This timely and generous collective effort by renowned scholars and activists is a must-read – Ndongo Samba Sylla, Head of Research and Policy for the Africa Region at International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs)

An indispensable book about one of our times’ most important political causes – Miriyam Aouragh, professor and author of Palestine Online

This book is a lesson in internationalism and the need to organise in order to practise it – Sabrina Fernandes, Brazilian economist, author and ecosocialist activist

This book is an indispensable resource for anyone committed to the belief that a better world is necessary and must be fought for – from many rivers to many seas – Salim Vally, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg

An indispensable intervention … Reading this book is an essential antidote to the darkness and despair that permeates this moment – Grieve Chelwa, Associate Professor of Political Economy, The Africa Institute, Global Studies University

This work stands as a guiding light for those committed to a liberated Palestine in a liberated world – ClaraMattei, author of Escape from Capitalism, founder of The Forum For Real Economic Emancipation (FREE)

What distinguishes this collection is its refusal to treat Palestine as an exception. It places Palestinian liberation where it belongs — at the centre of a global confrontation with empire, fossil capitalism, and the architectures of racial domination – Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and author of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

An essential read to keep hope alive and to remember Ghassan Kanafani’s words: ‘As long as we struggle, we are not defeated’ – Olfa Lamloum, political scientist, filmmaker and president of The Legal Agenda, Tunisia

Historically informed, strategically oriented … crucially important and timely – Gyekye Tanoh, Freedom and Justice for Palestine (Ghana) and member of Global Ecosocialist Network

A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the struggle for Palestine and beyond – Rima Majed, Associate Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut

Indispensable for an acquaintance with Palestinian resistance that goes beyond reading the headlines – Walden Bello, Filipino scholar-activist and Right Livelihood awardee 2003

This book could not be more timely. … A book from the movement and for the movement, it provides us with essential tools to continue and globalise the anti-imperialist struggle – Lucia Pradella, Reader in International Political Economy, King’s College London

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.

Shines a new and revealing light on decades of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist struggles … This book will be welcomed by both analysts and activists – Brid Brennan, Transnational Institute Fellow

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.

A crucial collection for those of us trying to find a way forward in a world shaped by genocide, rising fascism, aggressive imperialism, and climate catastrophe. – Sai Englert, author of Settler Colonialism: An Introduction

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