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28·9 hours agoWestern academic and bourgeois intellectual spaces continue to mischaracterize Hezbollah, alongside powers and forces of Islamic Resistance in the region, such as Iran or Palestine, as representing the intellectual pauperization of Arab resistance, inferior to the archetypal Arab left. All too often, Leftist movements and interpretations of history hold a Manichean dichotomy between secularism and religion that, ironically, contributes to a more idealistic and dogmatically atheistic view on struggle. Western academia and its ideological compradors in the Arab world fail to acknowledge the Islamic Resistance on its own terms – doing so would expose contradictions in the Westernized epistemology of history and decolonization devoid of its full spiritual and dialectical dimensions. As Martyr Imad Mughnieh said, ‘The material element is a component that helps the axis, but the essence of this axis is the spirit’ (Tasnim News 2015).
Deficiencies in understanding the Islamic resistance – and its main state backer, Iran – are also due to an adversarial relationship between the US and Iran, the lack of translation and general access to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Islamic Revolutionary literature. More importantly, there is a widespread hostility against anti-imperialist scholarship in Western academia, where structuralist approaches are seldom offered to understand the Islamic Republic and the regional resistance factions, and the challenges imposed upon them by US imperialism, thus contributing to a ‘poverty of analysis’ (Farnia 2023).
Long form article (15 pages) on the history and legacy of the martyr Sayed Hassan Nasrallah. Highly reccomended.
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
Abstract:
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On September 27, 2024, the US and Israel detonated 80 tons of American Mark-II multi-ton bunker-buster bombs over the southern Beirut suburb neighborhood of Haret Hreik, assassinating Hezbollah chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Few contemporary Arab leaders had the political impact and leverage that Nasrallah had, having been the central focus of US and Israeli counterinsurgency for decades. At the same time, he was also a critical figure to the consolidation of the regional Resistance Axis, and an icon for both Islamic resistance and anti-imperialist liberation globally. This essay aims to reflect on the legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the martyred leader of the Lebanese resistance organization, Hezbollah, by analyzing the trajectory of his political formation and ideology, as well as the spiritual and material elements of his activity and successes. While delving into the impacts of his lifelong struggle and leadership, this work also briefly touches upon the impact of his martyrdom, while providing a dialectical – both material and spiritual – assessment of his legacy.
Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: On the Experience of Struggle Inside the Prisons
By free prisoner Wael Jaghoub