Contribution short abstract

Based on ‘Sustainability Fantasies/Genocidal Realities: Palestine Against an Eco-Apartheid World’ co-authored with Vijay Kolinjivadi which critically analyses what the death of the international liberal order means for a world increasingly descending into climate upheaval and eco-apartheid.

Contribution long abstract

Published one year after the start of the genocide in Gaza, 'Sustainability Fantasies/Genocidal Realities: Palestine Against an Eco-Apartheid World’ co-authored with Vijay Kolinjivadi positioned the resistance and sumud of Palestinians in Gaza as the frontline in the struggle against US-led imperialism and global ecofascism and eco-apartheid. This remains true more than two years on from October 2023, when global powers are scrambling to occupy Gaza amidst a false ceasefire violated daily by the zionist state.

Gaza remains the linchpin of imperialism in the middle east, and on a cultural level, it has awakened and inspired progressive forces around the world through its stubborn commitment to land, liberation and dignity against the occupier. Left movements globally have been reinvigorated and are internalising the lessons taught by Gaza - building power from below. This intervention will focus on current and historical examples of ecological anti-imperialist struggles that resist structures of eco-apartheid, from Palestine, the Arab region, and beyond.