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83/ Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives (with Tareq Baconi)
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83/ Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives (with Tareq Baconi)

This is a conversation with Tareq Baconi, author of the book "Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance" published in 2018.

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List of topics discussed:

  • How Hamas is often talked about

  • Contextualising Hamas in recent and ongoing uprisings

  • Hamas and popular protests

  • The Great Return March

  • Hamas and Israel

  • Western hypocrisy on Palestinian democracy, with a focus on the EU and the US

  • Hamas-Fatah relations

  • The horrific costs of the Israeli blockade of Gaza

  • How the Israeli state views Hamas

  • Hamas breaking out of its 'cage'

  • Does it matter who wins at the Israeli elections?

  • The PA losing legitimacy

  • Hamas' authoritarianism in Gaza

  • Hamas as a democratic movement

  • Difference between party and government in Gaza

  • Moving beyond the framework of partition and into colonial and apartheid frameworks

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