Gaza

A note from the editor

Ramzy Baroud

Resisting erasure

Palestinian resistance has entered its eighth decade since the Nakba of 1948. Despite successive wars, sieges, the ongoing expansion of settlements and now genocide, it continues to shape the political and moral landscape of the Middle East.

Resistance in Palestine is a broad, popular movement rooted in the daily lives of ordinary people. It is the rebuilding of destroyed homes in Gaza, the tending of olive groves under fire in the West Bank, and the preservation of culture and identity in exile.

Israel’s occupation is sustained through Western political and financial backing, yet Palestinians persist with strategies that range from grassroots organizing and international advocacy to cultural resistance and, at times, armed struggle. At the core of these efforts lies the principle of sumud – steadfastness – that has defined the Palestinian experience for generations. The international community remains divided. Some governments offer impunity and weapons to Israel; others, particularly in the Global South, increasingly invoke international law and push for accountability.

In this Big Story, we give space to voices that are too often sidelined, allowing Palestinians to define their own struggle. Their comrades in the cause also join in, working to define a future without racism, war, or genocide.

Elsewhere in this issue, Obiora Ikoku reports on Senegal’s fight against imperialism, and NI editors give their view on the political leaders cozying up to dictators.

Ramzy Baroud for the New Internationalist co-operative.
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The big story

This year, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah people gathered around a large table for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, as the sun set. Photo: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo

This year, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah people gathered around a large table for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, as the sun set.

Photo: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo

The Long War for Meaning

Gaza-born journalist Ramzy Baroud traces how Palestinians have turned survival into a struggle for dignity, history and freedom, with Gaza at the heart of the resistance.

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The Big Story

A historical image from the 1948 Nakba, when more than 700,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes by Zionist militias during the establishment of the state of Israel.Photo: CPA Media Pte Ltd

Genocide, unmasked

Ilan Pappé dissects the language of genocide used throughout the Zionist movement, from the hidden orders of early military leaders to the lips of Israeli ministers on live TV.

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An activist sails on a boat in solidarity with Palestinians at Italy’s Genoa port on 13 July 2025.Photo: Piero Cruciatti/Alamy Live News

Ports of resistance

As Israel’s third-largest weapons supplier, Italy profits from the genocide in Gaza. Yet dockworkers and students are reviving traditions of international solidarity to challenge this complicity, writes Romana Rubeo.

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These illustrations come from Palestinian artist Maisara Baroud’s series ‘I’m still alive’, a visual daily diary from Gaza. Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, he posts a drawing each day to tell friends and families he’s alive. His stark images document displacement, bombardment, fear and the struggle to protect loved ones – capturing both war crimes and endurance, from the stoic figure standing in a bombed out street during Ramadan, to those holding onto their homes in every sense.Illustrations: Maisara Baroud

The Genesis of Palestinian Resistance

Ramzy Baroud traces key events in the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

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Palestinian politician Khalida Jarrar is lifted up by jubilant supporters in Tulkarem, West Bank, after her release from an Israeli jail on 3 June 2016. Jarrar has been repeatedly imprisoned without charge or trial in Israel’s prison regime.Photo: Nedal Eshtayah/APA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News

Life on the Inside

Veteran political prisoner Khalida Jarrar was released during January’s brief ceasefire agreement. Speaking to Louis Brehony, she reflects on life and resistance behind bars.

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A protester uses a slingshot to hurl stones at the Gaza border on 25 October 2019 during the Great March of Return. The year long protest movement saw thousands of Palestinians march towards the border to demand the right of return to their ancestral homelands. In response Israeli soldiers killed 223 Palestinian protesters.Photo: Ismael Mohamad/UPI/Alamy Live News

Between the sword and the neck

Palestinian resistance lives in the rifle, the pen, the olive tree and the memory of the land, writes Tahrir Hamdi.

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Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat and former South African president Nelson Mandela grasp hands and wave at Gaza international airport on 19 October 1999. Mandela supported the Palestinian struggle, famously saying that: ‘We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.’Photo: Reuters

From darkness into light

From Sharpeville to Gaza, Ronnie Kasrils reflects on the shared struggle against apartheid, exposing Israel’s crimes as worse than South Africa’s – and urging the world to act with equal resolve.

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A soldier poses at Camp Geille in Ouakam, Dakar, on 17 July, marking the end of the ceremony to hand over the last two French bases in Senegal and West Africa to the Senegalese Army.Photo: Nicolas Remene/Le Pictorium/Alamy Live News

New beginning or a false dawn?

As they navigate the stranglehold of global imperialism, can Senegal’s pan-Africanist leaders achieve real change without painful consequences for ordinary people, asks Obiora Ikoku?

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Three visitors to the Govan unemployed workers’ centre in Glasgow, Scotland. No date.Photo: Courtesy of Keith Stoddart

Where is the left?

Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton.

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Comment

View from Africa

View from Africa

The shame of sexual violence belongs to the state, by Rosebell Kagumire.

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View from India

View from India

Battle of the ballot. By Tarushi Aswani.

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View from Brazil

View from Brazil

Brazil’s economy teeters over Trump tariffs, by Leonardo Sakamoto.

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Show us your shared values

Show us your shared values

Western leaders are happy to don the garb of liberty, democracy and human rights when it suits them – but the friends they keep tell a different story. New Internationalist calls for an end to fraternization with dictators.

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Currents

Families displaced by Sudan’s civil war seek refuge in Tawila, Darfur, on 27 April 2025.Photo: Marwan Mohamed/NRC

Buried in silence

Cut off from aid and buried beneath war and rain, the people of Jebel Marra – once Sudan’s last refuge – now face a new catastrophe as landslides turn their mountain sanctuary into a mass grave and the world looks away. By Eyad Hisham.

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Survival Chic

Survival Chic

As fears of invasion simmer, a new ‘survival chic’ trend sweeps Taiwan, where go-bags and gas masks have become the latest accessories of anxious preparedness. By Eric R Stone.

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Banditry Bill

Banditry Bill

As Brazil’s ‘Banditry Bill’ threatens to pardon Bolsonaro’s coup crimes, tens of thousands take to the streets to defend the fragile gains of their democracy. By Paula Lacey.

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Briefly

Briefly

Home at last; Youth revolt; Sacred mountains sullied; Bali curbs tourism; Cops unmasked; Deadly hit in Haiti.

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Disaster profits

Disaster profits

As climate chaos deepens, South Africa’s "water mafia" profits from disaster—sabotaging relief, selling thirst, and turning catastrophe into cash. By Tsitsi Bhobo.

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Clothing crimes

Clothing crimes

Moroccan feminist Ibtissame "Betty" Lachgar’s arrest for a satirical T-shirt exposes the peril facing free expression in a country where faith is policed and dissent is punished. By Rahila Gupta.

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In Buenos Aires, Garrahan hospital workers rally against proposed public spending cuts, July 2025.Photo: Maia Pauro

Hospital staff vs Milei

Defying Milei’s austerity, Argentina’s paediatric hospital workers are leading a nationwide fight to save public healthcare from collapse. By Maia Pauro.

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Protesters capture Nepal’s government building in Kathmandu on 9 September 2025 amid huge Gen Z-led demonstrations against corruption.Photo: Skanda Gautam/SOPA Images via Zuma

Gen Z revolution

Led by a digitally savvy generation demanding integrity and equality, Nepal’s Gen Z protesters have toppled their prime minister and ignited a new fight to remake democracy from the ground up. By Maxine Betteridge-Moes.

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Illustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Zarah Sultana

Suspended for defying Labour’s rightward drift, Zarah Sultana is emerging as the uncompromising new face of Britain’s left — young, principled, and unafraid to take on the establishment.

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A man walks past a mural of popular ZimDancehall artists, Kinnah (left) and Killer T (right), in Zimbabwe's most populous slum Mbare. The young musicians have become heroes in this township, the birthplace of the subversive genre.Photo: Mark Mhukayesango

Sell out

Once the rebellious voice of Zimbabwe’s streets, ZimDancehall now risks losing its soul as the regime buys off its stars to silence the beat of dissent. By Winile Ximba.

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Who belongs?

Who belongs?

In Modi’s India, Bengali-speaking migrants – and even citizens – are learning that identity papers mean little when language itself can mark you as an outsider. By Kasturi Chakraborty.

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Illustration: Emma Peer

Reasons to be Cheerful

Dead In The Water; Solidarity In Scotland; Shell Shocked.

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Regulars

Letters

Letters

Praise, blame and all points in between? Give us your feedback.

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Illustration: Sarah John

Belonging

In a city where change is displacing homes and histories, Maya Misikir finds a sense of community growing in unexpected places.

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Illustration: Daniel Medina

Open Window

'Two Graves, One Gun' by Daniel Medina (United States).

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Illustration: Emma Peer

Seriously?

Meditating on the Moon, by Tony Milligan.

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Students protest outside the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 9 September 2025, amid a nationwide movement against corruption, economic inequality and police violence.Photo: Tatan Syuflana/AP Photo

Sign of the Times

Students protest outside the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 9 September 2025. Photo by Tatan Syuflana.

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Illustration: Marc Roberts

Only Planet

Trickle down politics, by Marc Roberts.

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Photo: Eduardo Soteras Jalil

Southern Exposure: Eduardo Soteras Jalil

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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Country Profile: Indonesia

Country Profile: Indonesia

The photos, facts, and politics of Indonesia.

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Illustration: Kate Evans

Thoughts from a Broad

What constitution? Illustrated by Kate Evans.

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Photo: Louise Gardner

‘I felt an obligation as a scientist’

Conservationist turned activist Charlie Gardner speaks to Amy Hall about why he risks arrest for the climate, and why we need to change how we talk about climate action.

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Members of the Renewable Energy Coalition in Benin joined Africa’s week of action against TotalEnergies, using street art and music.Photo: Alban Sietin

Temperature Check

Power to the planet - from court rooms to solar panels, a round-up of global climate action. Words by Danny Chivers.

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El Salvador's jailer in chief President Nayib Bukele shows off his favourite accessory.Illustration: Mari Fouz

Hall of Infamy: Nayib Bukele

Self-described as ‘the world’s coolest dictator’.

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Agony Uncle: Inheritance

Agony Uncle: Inheritance

Struggling with an ethical dilemma? New Internationalist’s Agony Uncle can help you find answers in our troubled political times.

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Film, Book & Music Reviews

Mixed Media: Books

Mixed Media: Books

All Hands on Deck; Fascist Yoga; The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club; Heart Lamp.

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Mixed Media: Film

Mixed Media: Film

Souleymane’s Story; The Mastermind.

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Books Essay: Balls of wax

Books Essay: Balls of wax

A collection of short stories and vignettes from a feminist pioneer pinpoints the absurd details of the normalizing state, writes Caitlín Doherty.

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