Between Palestine and the world: Sovereignty and solidarity after order

by Yara Hawari, Tareq Baconi and Juliano Fiori

April 29, 2026

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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

Yara Hawari is Al-Shabaka’s co-director. She previously served as the Palestine policy fellow and senior analyst. Yara completed her PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, where she taught various undergraduate courses and continues to be an honorary research fellow. In addition to her academic work, which focused on indigenous studies and oral history, she is a frequent political commentator writing for various media outlets including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera English.
Expertise: Global Policy on Palestine, International Law & Human Rights, Palestinian Politics & Governance, Society & Culture, Zionism & Israeli Politics
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Tareq Baconi serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka. He was Al-Shabaka’s US Policy Fellow from 2016 – 2017. Tareq is the former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group, based in Ramallah, and the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2018). Tareq’s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, among others, and he is a frequent commentator in regional and international media. He is the book review editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Expertise: Palestinian Politics & Governance, Zionism & Israeli Politics
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Juliano Fiori 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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