Aug 12, 2026 · 33 min · 10 segments
In this week's episode of Decolonial Dispatch, we sit down with Researcher, Activist and Writer, Hamza Hamouchene, author of his new book Towards Palestinian Liberation. Moving beyond mainstream…
Hamza HamoucheneGuestMohamedHostAnd I just want to
this with what happens today, right? Because this was a movement which was waging a war against Israel.
elevated to the level of being the sole representative of the Palestinians in the UN General Assembly.
That could never happen today under the world war on terror discourses that we have today.
The only way in which armed movements today who see themselves as part of national liberation struggles are treated is they are prescribed as terrorist organizations and completely removed from having any diplomatic say.
I mean, I want to hone in on that because I think a lot of people are feeling despondent about the censorship, about the self-censorship whenever we speak about Palestine.
But that is a moment of hope
That's the thing that we are trying to do here through the chapters and through the pages of the book is to historicize those struggles, including historicizing the long and arduous struggle for Palestinian liberation.
The same thing happened in Algeria, the same thing happened in Vietnam, something happened in South Africa.
Those were long and protracted struggles against colonialism and imperialism.
They defeated those forces at some point when the right conditions aligned at the national, regional and international level.
And the struggle still continues in those days for total liberation and emancipation from various other systems of oppression.
But I think what the book tries to cling to is that things can be different.
Things have been different because there was a vision that united those struggles at a global level against the forces of imperialism and capitalism.
And in here, I have in mind the two chapters that try to frame Palestine liberation as an anti-imperialist struggle, but also as a third world struggle, as an anti-colonial struggle, but also as a struggle against global fossil capitalism.
Adam Haniya puts this argument that The political economy of U.S. domination in the region, what we call the Middle East or Southwest Asia, relies on two key pillars.
The first pillar is Israel as a Euro-American settler colony and a kind of an advanced imperial outpost that protects the geopolitical and geoeconomic interests of the U.S. and the Western Bloc as a whole.
Because the region is fundamental, a key nodal point of global fossil capitalism, but also the global capitalist economy.
We are seeing it right now with the blockages of the Strait of Hormuz, how the region really is a choke point of trade and maritime routes from the Strait of Hormuz to the Suez Canal to the Bab el-Mandab and so forth.
The second pillar is the reactionary oil gulf monarchies that are also one of the most important centers of global production of hydrocarbons.
And I just want to
this with what happens today, right? Because this was a movement which was waging a war against Israel.
elevated to the level of being the sole representative of the Palestinians in the UN General Assembly.
That could never happen today under the world war on terror discourses that we have today.
The only way in which armed movements today who see themselves as part of national liberation struggles are treated is they are prescribed as terrorist organizations and completely removed from having any diplomatic say.
I mean, I want to hone in on that because I think a lot of people are feeling despondent about the censorship, about the self-censorship whenever we speak about Palestine.
But that is a moment of hope
That's the thing that we are trying to do here through the chapters and through the pages of the book is to historicize those struggles, including historicizing the long and arduous struggle for Palestinian liberation.
The same thing happened in Algeria, the same thing happened in Vietnam, something happened in South Africa.
Those were long and protracted struggles against colonialism and imperialism.
They defeated those forces at some point when the right conditions aligned at the national, regional and international level.
And the struggle still continues in those days for total liberation and emancipation from various other systems of oppression.
But I think what the book tries to cling to is that things can be different.
Things have been different because there was a vision that united those struggles at a global level against the forces of imperialism and capitalism.
And in here, I have in mind the two chapters that try to frame Palestine liberation as an anti-imperialist struggle, but also as a third world struggle, as an anti-colonial struggle, but also as a struggle against global fossil capitalism.
Adam Haniya puts this argument that The political economy of U.S. domination in the region, what we call the Middle East or Southwest Asia, relies on two key pillars.
The first pillar is Israel as a Euro-American settler colony and a kind of an advanced imperial outpost that protects the geopolitical and geoeconomic interests of the U.S. and the Western Bloc as a whole.
Because the region is fundamental, a key nodal point of global fossil capitalism, but also the global capitalist economy.
We are seeing it right now with the blockages of the Strait of Hormuz, how the region really is a choke point of trade and maritime routes from the Strait of Hormuz to the Suez Canal to the Bab el-Mandab and so forth.
The second pillar is the reactionary oil gulf monarchies that are also one of the most important centers of global production of hydrocarbons.
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