Join this webinar on Yanis Iqbal’s The Sword and the Neck: Reading the al-Aqsa Flood, a militant philosophical intervention that challenges pacifist and reconciliatory tendencies within liberal and Western Marxist thought.
In the aftermath of Operation al-Aqsa Flood, philosophers such as Žižek and Balibar have reframed Gaza as a humanitarian or juridical issue, sidelining the centrality of anti-colonial struggle. This book decisively departs from that consensus, foregrounding Gaza as a key site of revolutionary confrontation.
Drawing on Fanon’s insight that colonial power operates as “naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence,” the text reasserts the necessity of anti-imperialist resistance against the US-Zionist axis.