Security in Context announces the publication of Issue 2 of our Insecurity Monitor.
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The Insecurity Monitor is Security in Context’s (SiC’s) annual print and digital magazine, featuring the most important outputs from across research tracks. Launched in 2020, Security in Context is a transnational research network whose mission is to advance critical and non-Western perspectives on global affairs.
This issue is titled “Palestine and the Global Order” and focuses on the multiple dimensions of the ongoing genocide, now reaching its third year.
There is little doubt that the effects of Al-Aqsa Flood, led by the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have rippled throughout the world, sharpening divisions, and forcing clarity about global racial and power hierarchies. The genocidal assault by Israel against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with full military, diplomatic, and financial support from much of the Western world, particularly the United States, is one of the darkest chapters of humanity since World War Two. But despite this, Palestinian resistance and global solidarity continues and, we hasten to predict, will grow from strength to strength in its quest for justice. In this issue we have curated just a few of the multiple facets of the Palestinian struggle and the global solidarity movement, some of which also shed light on changing global dynamics.
Editor's Introduction
The whole of the SiC collective were unanimous when we discussed the theme to anchor this issue: to reflect on the global order through the lens of Palestine. There is little doubt that the effects of Al-Aqsa Flood, led by the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have rippled throughout the world, sharpening divisions, and forcing clarity about global racial and power hierarchies.
The genocidal assault by Israel against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with full military, diplomatic, and financial support from much of the Western world, particularly the United States, is one of the darkest chapters of humanity since World War Two. It has exposed how Western governments have preferred to ally with Zionist violence and use repressive tactics to silence critique and popular mobilisations against mass slaughter rather than prevent a genocide. But despite this, Palestinian resistance and global solidarity continues and, we hasten to predict, will grow from strength to strength in its quest for justice. In this issue we have curated just a few of the multiple facets of the Palestinian struggle and the global solidarity movement, some of which also shed light on changing global dynamics.
As this issue goes to press, Western colonial fantasies are reaching fever pitch. In February 2025, US President Donald Trump announced his plan to “own” Gaza and ethnically cleanse all Palestinians from the Strip; he then released images of it reconstructed as a “Riviera of the Middle East” sans Palestinians. A horrific AI video was then shared by Trump on his social media which showed him, alongside Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu and billionaire Elon Musk, sipping cocktails while sunbathing in Gaza. When these are put alongside the images of Palestinians struggling to get through the winter without the basic necessities of life, it shows the depths of depravity that the United States administration has plunged in its defense of the Israeli colonialist project. Meanwhile, Israel’s bellicosity, a defining essence since its establishment, has left parts of Lebanon in ruin, has accelerated ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and has invaded more territory in Syria after destroying much of its remaining military in the aftermath of the Assad regime collapse.
It is difficult in these circumstances to remain hopeful for the future, but Palestinians do not have the luxury of despair - their sumud and the rise in solidarity activism around the world should give us cause for optimism. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned on foot to the north of the Gaza Strip, in defiance of plans for them by Israel and the United States, insisting they will remain in Gaza. Solidarity activism that increased exponentially during the genocide is being harnessed for the next phase; Israel is going to be hit with a tsunami of boycott and divestment actions by civil society organisations around the world. Several Global South states have also mobilised to coordinate solidarity actions using the tools of international law and diplomacy, and declared sanctions against Israel. All of these activities are examples of James Baldwin’s call to action: “Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” We devote this issue of Insecurity Monitor to Palestine and the Global Order with these words in mind.
Julia Cameron - Security in Context
Omar S. Dahi - Hampshire College & University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mandy Turner - Security in Context
The editors would like to thank Sanaa Odeh, a Palestinian graphic designer based in Gaza, for her image on page two of this issue of Insecurity Monitor.
Table of Contents
- Editors’ Introduction
Palestine and the Global Order
- Banging on the Walls of the Tank, An interview with Haidar Eid, Editors
- An interview with Abdalhadi Alijla, Omar Dahi
- Gaza Apocalypse, Mouin Rabbani
- Denying Palestinian Data, Killing Palestinian Journalists: The War on Palestinian Knowledge Production, Amahl Bishara
- Palestinian Prisoners Are at the Frontline of Israel’s Violence, Malaka Shwaikh
- Israel’s US-backed starvation policy in Gaza: Assessing Biden Administration’s Failed Humanitarian Ultimatum to Israel, Stephen Semler
- The Youth Development Complex in the Arab Region and the War on Gaza, Mayssoun Sukarieh
- Containment, Silencing, and Rage: Palestinians in Jerusalem Since October 7, R. Isa
- The Paradox of Palestinian Security, Zayne Abudaka and Obada Shtaya
- Palestine and the Force of Global Solidarity, Sami Hermez
- Day-Afters in Palestine, 1937-2024, Raja Khalidi
- In the Face of Genocide, Academic Freedom is Cast as a Security Risk, Neve Gordon
- Palestine through a Global Lens, Omar S. Dahi
- The Nazi Analogy and the Trauma of October 7, Mandy Turner
- Merchants of Death: Israel’s Permanent War Economy, Tariq Dana
- Interview with Francesca Albanese: “This Is What a Settler-Colonial Genocide Looks Like," Interview conducted by Mandy Turner and Sonia Boulos
- Israeli State Terrorism, Settler Colonialism, and International Order, Richard Jackson
- Assessing U.S. Middle East Policy, Sam Heller
- Japan, the American-led World Order, and Palestine: A Disrupted Balancing Act, Saul J. Takahashi
- Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Future Prospects, Mouin Rabbani
- Multilateralism from the Margins: Prospects for Cooperation and Solidarity in Global Interactions, Mandy Turner
- The UAE’s Agriculture and Carbon Deals in Africa: Subimperial Dynamics and Climate Precarity, Zahra Moloo
- Turkey in Somalia: From ‘Humanitarian Diplomacy’ to Strategic Relations, Ahmed Sh. Ibrahim
- China in Africa: More Business-as-usual than Bogeyman, Bond Villain, or Benefactor, Collin J. Meisel
- Understanding Monetary Power: Sanctions, Economic Statecraft and the Global Seigniorage Duopoly, Francisco Rodríguez
- How the Jokowi-Prabowo Coalition’s Political Survival Shapes Indonesia’s Foreign Policy, Alvin Camba
