Between Palestine and the world: Sovereignty and solidarity after order
This video is part of Alameda’s After Order project.
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Welcome to Alameda Dialogues — a series of conversations on social struggles, international solidarity, and futures beyond catastrophe. In this episode, Between Palestine and the World: Sovereignty and Solidarity After Order, we turn to Palestine as a lens through which to examine the shifting terrain of global politics and the limits of the current international order.
Moving between the specific and the global, the discussion approaches Palestine not as an isolated question, but as a site that exposes deeper structural dynamics—from colonial legacies to the exercise of global power and the erosion of institutional legitimacy. Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the genocide in Gaza, carried out with the support of Western governments, have laid bare the contradictions of an international system that can no longer sustain the claims of its own champions. Taking this as a starting point, the conversation explores what is at stake in international solidarity with Palestine—not only as a question of response, but of political direction.
- What does it mean to connect struggles across different contexts without flattening their specificities?
- What forms of organisation are needed for solidarity to endure beyond moments of visibility and urgency?
- And what kind of internationalism is possible in a time marked by fragmentation, inequality, and accelerating crisis?
Rather than offering simple answers, this dialogue reflects on the relationship between sovereignty and solidarity, the limits of existing institutions, and the need to build political infrastructures capable of sustaining collective struggle over time. Featuring Yara Hawari, co-director of Al-Shabaka; Tareq Baconi, president of the board of Al-Shabaka; and Juliano Fiori, director of Alameda.
Yara Hawari, Tareq Baconi and Juliano Fiori
Expertise: Global Policy on Palestine, International Law & Human Rights, Palestinian Politics & Governance, Society & Culture, Zionism & Israeli Politics
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Tareq Baconi is working on a book about decolonisation in the 21st century. His memoir, a queer love story set against the decades-spanning sweep of violence and erasure that his family experienced as Palestinian refugees, is forthcoming with Atria in fall 2025. He is the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2018) and of the short film One Like Him, a BFI-funded film shot in Jordan. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, among others.
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Juliano is the director of Alameda. His current research addresses the political economy of crisis and the imagination of catastrophe. His doctoral studies in intellectual history explored the political and social theory of Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. His writing on politics and culture is published regularly in Brazil, where he lives, in Britain, where he grew up, and beyond.
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