Tufan: Palestinian Resistance as Thought and Practice

Palestinian resistance is often misunderstood―framed as spontaneous rage, reduced to moral binaries of violence and nonviolence, or stripped of its political intelligence altogether. In this incisive and accessible book, Abdaljawad Omar overturns these narratives. Refusing Western frameworks that domesticate or delegitimize struggle, he traces Palestinian resistance as a living political project―one that has forged its own theories, concepts, tactics, and strategic horizons. From the 1987 Intifada to the Al-Aqsa Flood of October 7, 2023, Omar shows how resistance has continually reinvented itself under crushing external pressure and deep internal tension. What emerges is not a static tradition, but a dynamic revolutionary process. Written in an age of counterrevolution, resurgent fascism, and expanding settler-colonial rule, Tufan insists on the urgency of returning to revolutionary politics―and places Palestinian resistance at the heart of a broader global struggle for liberation.