Sociological Theorizing of Resistance through the Writings of Basil Al-Araj
This study highlights the awareness of Basil al-Araj’s language and its contexts in the theory and reality of the Palestinian revolutionary resistance. It is an awareness that takes on functions that extend over several historical stages. The language becomes present in the glow of our awareness of resistance and martyrdom and abstract values built in our minds, making Bassel’s narrative a reality that go into the space of clash.
Basil was known as the man of the protests and sit-ins that fought Oslo, normalization, and the occupation. Its existence, systems and tools. He organized introductory trips and field tours about Palestine and its land. Basil was active in blogging on social media platforms until his last breath when he was martyred and those around him wrote about it.
In this paper, I will study the function of Basil’s language in its resistive dimension, for a group of texts that gathered from different places and published them through platforms, drafts, and research articles, in addition to his brief will. In it, you read the functional power of language in its resistance and awareness dimensions, conflict and its tools, and the concepts of awareness and struggle with a high philosophical intensity.
His theory of resistance consciousness was inspired by Ali Shariati, Frantz Fanon, Imam Hussein, Hassan Nasrallah, Che Guevara, Wadih Haddad, and Ghassan Kanafani. He represented an integrated model between resistance and consciousness, between what is a field of knowledge and revolutionary consciousness. He also drew a clear philosophy regarding martyrdom and its jurisprudence and was not elitist in presenting its concept.