‘In Our Thousands, In Our Millions, We Are All Palestinians’: Global Palestine and the Antinomies of Solidarity

Since 2023, the genocidal war waged on the Palestinian people in Gaza and the region’s popular cradles of resistance, a key contradiction has emerged as a point of crisis: the complicity of the United States-led international order stands in stark contrast to the renewed global championing of the Palestinian liberation struggle. This paper examines the historical and political conditions that shaped the contemporary formation of global solidarity with Palestine. It argues that Palestine constitutes a global form of struggle, rooted not in liberal solidarity frameworks that have dominated the twenty-first century but in deeper traditions of transnational affinities and structures associated with the historic movement of decolonization. However, imperial structures of normalization fragmented these affinities, replacing revolutionary internationalism with human rights discourse and solidarity based on narrow geopolitical interests. In contrast, the global resonance of Palestinian liberation persists as a material and affective legacy, rearticulated through militant belief and existential affinity—especially within Islamic resistance groups, where Palestine anchors a defiant anti-imperialist politics. Through assembling such an analysis of the contradictions and antinomies of global Palestinian solidarity that emerge through such conjectures, this paper aims to provide a critical account of the potentials and limitations of contemporary forms of solidarity with Palestinian liberation struggle.