Fanon’s insights on colonialism, oppression, and the division between colonizers and the colonized resonate profoundly when examining the complex and enduring struggle in Palestine. His writings shed light on the intricacies of a struggle where a colonial dividing line has been etched deep into the landscape and consciousness of the region. In exploring Fanon’s perspective on the colonial experience and applying it to the Palestinian context, we gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics that have shaped the Israeli-Palestinian colonial entanglement.

Through media outlets and co-ordinated networks, Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian tropes and conspiracies are circulated. Eventually, they become regarded as social facts, especially in times of war, conflict and heightened political tensions.

To contextualise violence within a history of classicism is to make an active choice not to contextualise it within more recent histories. In Malik’s article, the history of the world seems to jump from ancient Greece to the 7th October 2023, conveniently leaping over the history of political Zionism and its entanglement with other colonialisms, the Balfour Declaration and Britain’s presumption of ownership of Palestine, or the many decades of illegal Israeli occupation supported by the West. Narratives of history are about forgetting as much as they are about remembering – and remembering the classical allows the West to forget its complicity.

The devious workings of caste ferret out newer ways to coopt even the anti-caste discourse within the convoluted logic of caste, turn it into a commodity and blunt its subversive edge.

A Muslim is the being where Islam dwells in; and perhaps quite less so in other matters Islamic, nor in any measures of Islamicity.

I want a new ancient history of the world. That’s a big ask, I know. But it is one that I believe to be crucial to the interconnected projects of Critical Muslim Studies (CMS) and Critical Ancient World Studies (CAWS). I want an ancient history of the world that is intellectually and ethically organised around unpicking the world’s unequal, racist, colonial and neo-colonial structures.