The phrase ‘They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds’, attributed to the Greek poet Christianopoulos and subsequently adopted by the Zapatista movement in Mexico, re-emerged in the global public sphere in 2024, appearing on banners at international demonstrations calling for a…
The word genocide, in addition to its legal meaning, also has a symbolic value. The legal notion of genocide, which as such is general and abstract, is often identified with a specific genocide, the Holocaust. These two elements have influenced the highly polarized public debate concerning the…
In July 2025, a small fleet of over 40 boats, with crews from 44 different countries, set sail from the ports of Barcelona, Genoa, Catania, and Tunisia with the aim of bringing food and medicine to the Palestinian population of Gaza. Although the convoy was boarded by the Israeli army once it…
The article analyzes Sumūd as an educational and political practice within the dehumanizing context of Palestine, particularly in the Gaza Strip. Framed by critical pedagogy and a decolonial perspective, the study interprets the ongoing genocide as a historical, political, and discursive process…
When we speak of Gaza, there is a before and after 7 October 2023. More than two years have passed since that terrible day, but the anguish remains the same; a tragedy is still unfolding, one which we describe, with shame and frustration, as ‘the genocide of the Palestinian people’. Faced with…
Come afferma lo stesso Traverso parafrasando Sartre, Gaza davanti alla storia è scritto en situation. Un testo che non può vantare di essere stato elaborato con sereno distacco “ma piuttosto nel tentativo di organizzare una prima riflessione senza nascondere i sentimenti di stupore,…
Questo libro non racconta la storia così come lo fanno i mass-media o la maggioranza del discorso politico. Quella in questo libro sarebbe, se anche non volessimo intenderla come “la verità”, senz’altro la contronarrazione: l’altra storia, quella che effettivamente dovremmo sentire,…