Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives w/ Tareq Baconi (E83)

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

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

Recommended Books:

• Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector by Sara Roy
• Hamas: A Beginner's Guide by Khaled Hroub
• Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial by Somdeep Sen