Palestine in a World on Fire

A collection of interviews with some of the world's leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe.

As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this path of newfound solidarity. Editors Ilan Papp and Katherine Natanel have gathered a collection of interviews that are intimate, challenging, and rigorous many of them conducted before October 7th but still startlingly prescient. The interviewees connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to various liberatory movements around the world, simultaneously interrogating and recontextualizing their own positions given the ongoing aggression in Palestine. This incredible group includes Angela Y. Davis, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Nadine El-Enany, Gabor Mate, Mustafa Barghouti, Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Gilroy, Elias Khoury, Gayatri Spivak, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.

Palestine in a World on Fire highlights the centrality of Palestine in struggles shared across the world: capitalism, imperialism, misogyny, neo-colonialism, racism, and more. Each conversation tackles urgent events and unfolding dynamics, and the scholar-activists interviewed here provide invaluable perspectives and insights, illuminating the richness and relevance of recent scholarship on Palestine.

About the Authors

Katherine Natanel is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Her research engages with political participation and mobilization; conflict and political violence; and affect and political emotions, primarily in the context of Palestine/Israel. Her first book, Sustaining Conflict: Apathy and Domination in Israel-Palestine, was awarded the 2017 Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Prize. Katie is the Executive Editor for Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).

Ilan Pappe is the Director of the European Center for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, UK, and a senior fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in the University of Exeter. Pappe has written 22 books to date, including Our Visions for Liberation, The War on Gaza, On Palestine, and the best-seller The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.