<i>Free Mediterranean</i>

Abstract How does Palestine solidarity alter thinking from the sea? How does the anticolonial insurgency in Palestine connect to and enhance international solidarity movements and other struggles against neocolonial formations at sea? Can we think of a solidarity-induced insurgency in saltwater, and can this insurgency take us beyond a focus on dry land, its material resources, and its cosmological meanings? Drawing on years of active involvement in and research on sea-centered movements of solidarity in the Mediterranean, including efforts to challenge the embargo in Gaza and to support border-crossing refugees, this essay argues that contemporary solidarity practices that crisscross the Mediterranean Sea relate directly to the politics of radical social change and, more generally, the question of anticolonialism today.