Achcar excels at illuminating the “big picture,” conjoining his broad historical understanding of geopolitics with detailed understandings of the majority Arab region informed by his personal experiences as a political militant. The subtitle of Achcar’s latest book, The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective, announces his critical method and principal intervention in the debate over Israel’s devastation of Gaza and its meaning. Rather, they are a continuation of the historical and political trajectory of the Zionist settlement project and the Nakba of 1948. (36-37)Alongside his systematic criticism of Israeli apartheid, expansionism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide Achcar sharply denounces Hamas’s misogynist and undemocratic political regime, which provoked demonstrations against its rule in Gaza in the summer of 2023. The messianist-fascist current in Israeli politics is an emblematic component of burgeoning neo-fascist forces in France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, the UK, the United States, and beyond – countries that have rendered material aid to Israel’s Gaza genocide and suppressed their own domestic oppositions to it.