# Defeating Zionism to Free Palestine

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/defeating-zionism-to-free-palestine/
- Published: 2026-11-06T11:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T11:38:38+00:00
- Original publisher: The Intercept (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://theintercept.com/2026/11/06/defeating-zionism-to-free-palestine/
- Topics: Politics

## Key points

- El-Sayed won Michigan’s Senate race after campaigning against US support for Israel.
- The article argues Palestinian liberation requires confronting Zionism and colonial rule.
- It says ending US aid alone would not end the conflict in Gaza.

## Summary

Abdul El-Sayed’s victory over Mike Rogers in Michigan’s US Senate race is presented as a challenge to Islamophobic campaigning and entrenched US support for Israel. The article argues that Palestinian liberation is central to opposing racism and colonialism, and that ending the war in Gaza requires confronting Zionism and the structures of Israeli rule.

El-Sayed, who would become the first Muslim US senator, campaigned against US support for Israel’s actions in Gaza. Donald Trump said the US would stop providing Israel with $4 billion in annual aid, but the article doubts this will happen and says ending aid alone would not end the conflict. It cites nearly 75,000 Palestinians killed since October 2023, according to Gaza’s health ministry, and introduces an essay by Noura Erakat and John Reynolds calling for decolonisation, justice, redistribution, reparations and refugee return.

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