The flotillas have ended, leaving behind hundreds of international activists kidnapped, tortured, and deported. Meanwhile, Trump has consolidated a plan to sustain the State of Israel, subjecting the international community to a new world order and punishing global resistance movements. Governments such as Canada’s are moving toward persecuting their own citizens through new internet censorship laws, the criminalization of dissenting voices, and the restriction of the right to protest.

It is difficult to foresee what 2026 will bring globally, or what form the so-called “peace” in Gaza will take. Yet it is clear that, although the movements that have been marching for Palestine for the past two years show signs of fatigue, a generational awakening has emerged, nurturing them and ensuring a lasting renewal.

The new generations have become aware of the brutality of the North American empire and of the absence of true democracy in Western countries, where the ability to influence public policy is reduced to mass protest — increasingly difficult in the society of spectacle — or to a fragmented form of universal suffrage carefully designed to guarantee that nothing changes.

It is the responsibility of social movements to build the structures necessary to ensure that the strength born of dissent does not dissolve within the system’s web. Assimilation is the card played by economic and political power; resisting it — by constantly reinventing ourselves — is our task.

And what about Palestine?

Palestine will remain the beacon for all those who appeal to humanity and make it the axis of their daily actions. The more than 10,000 prisoners in Israeli jails, the relentless machinery of settlements in the West Bank and the ongoing theft of land, the apartheid imposed on the Arab population, the murder of those who defend their rights or dare to describe daily life under occupation — all are reasons enough to stand by its side.

Colonization — territorial, economic, and cultural — is not unique to the process of ethnic cleansing in Palestine; it is a reality that extends, in varying degrees, across nearly the entire planet. As throughout the 77 years of Palestinian resistance, each outburst of dignity is followed by a long international silence in the face of normalized horror. That silence could be called the soufflé’s fall.

It remains to be seen what will follow and what price we will pay for the coming hangover. Yet from Palestine Vivra, we will continue to reinvent our actions so that what has not been voted for at the ballot box — complicity with genocide — cannot be carried out in our name.

As long as there are paths of utopia, hope will endure.