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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Sayid Marcos Tenório is a historian, specialist in International Relations, founder and vice-president of the Brazil-Palestine Institute (Ibraspal). Author of the book Palestina: do mito da terra prometida à terra da resistência (Palestine: from the myth of the promised land to the land of resistance) (Anita Garibaldi/Ibraspal).

 

Items by Sayid Marcos Tenorio

  • Beijing does not obey the empire, Tehran resists

    Beijing does not obey the empire, Tehran resists

    Donald Trump returns from his visit to China without the display of strength he had hoped to project to the world. No meaningful public concessions, no visible strategic alignment from Beijing against Tehran, and no image of a leader capable of forcibly reshaping the global geopolitical chessboard. That alone would…

  • 78 years since the Nakba and the collapse of the Zionist project

    78 years since the Nakba and the collapse of the Zionist project

    For decades, the Zionist project sold the world a carefully constructed image: that of a modern democracy, militarily invincible, morally superior, and destined for historical permanence. Today, that narrative is collapsing before the eyes of the world. But this crisis did not begin yesterday. As the 78th anniversary of the…

  • Iran, the crisis of US power and the end of the imperial narrative

    Iran, the crisis of US power and the end of the imperial narrative

    War is also won in the realm of perception. And it is precisely on this terrain that Iran has achieved its most decisive victory. By confronting both the United States and Israel without capitulating, Iran has transformed resistance, endurance, and its capacity to exert pressure into regional political capital. This…

  • Indefinite ceasefire is a strategic defeat for the US in the face of Iran

    Indefinite ceasefire is a strategic defeat for the US in the face of Iran

    The decision by Donald Trump to unilaterally announce an indefinite extension of the ceasefire with Iran, without any request from Tehran, reveals more than an attempt at mediation. It exposes the failure of Washington’s military approach and the difficulty the United States faces in sustaining escalation against an adversary that…

  • The language of media as a weapon of war

    The language of media as a weapon of war

    The language of hegemonic media does not merely describe the world. It organizes it, hierarchises it and, above all, disciplines it. Within the dominant vocabulary of international relations, certain terms are systematically deployed to legitimise allies and delegitimise adversaries. This is not a semantic detail, but a central mechanism in…

  • Antisemitism as a weapon to silence critics of Israel

    Antisemitism as a weapon to silence critics of Israel

    The accusation of antisemitism has increasingly been instrumentalised as a political weapon to silence criticism of Israel and its policies against the Palestinian people.  This is not an occasional distortion, but a recurring strategy aimed at constraining, intimidating and punishing journalists, academics, activists and movements that denounce practices such as…

  • The politics of death in “Israel’s” prisons

    The politics of death in “Israel’s” prisons

    The approval by the Knesset of a law instituting the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners marks a historic rupture in Israeli penal policy—and a dangerous escalation in the institutionalization of state violence. For the first time in decades, the Zionist state has formalized execution as a regular instrument of punishment,…

  • The collapse of the myth of Israel’s invincibility

    The collapse of the myth of Israel’s invincibility

    The current situation in the Middle East cannot be understood as a mere military escalation or a sequence of isolated confrontations. It represents a historical turning point, revealing the exhaustion of a regional domination model sustained by Israel’s military supremacy and the strategic backing of the United States. For decades,…

  • Jerusalem at the epicentre of the Middle East crisis

    Jerusalem at the epicentre of the Middle East crisis

    Every year, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, millions of people around the world mobilise to mark the International Day of Al-Quds, the Arabic name for the city of Jerusalem. Established in 1979 by the leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, the day…

  • Mojtaba Khamenei and the continuity of the Islamic Revolution

    Mojtaba Khamenei and the continuity of the Islamic Revolution

    The election of Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran represents far more than a simple institutional succession. Coming amid an open regional conflict and following the martyrdom of Iran’s long-time leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the decision by the Assembly of…

  • The martyrdom of Imam Khamenei and the revolution that no empire will be able to destroy

    The martyrdom of Imam Khamenei and the revolution that no empire will be able to destroy

    The martyrdom of Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei does not represent the end of an era, but the transformation of the Islamic Revolution into an even deeper, politically and spiritually irreversible movement. By being assassinated in an attack by the United States and “Israel”, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic…

  • Iran in the face of the armed diplomacy of imperialism

    Iran in the face of the armed diplomacy of imperialism

    The ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran, mediated by Oman and recently held in Geneva, have been presented by Western diplomacy as a technical effort to contain nuclear risks. This version is a carefully constructed farce. What is at stake is not the so-called “non-proliferation”, but a direct…

  • Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a laboratory of death

    Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a laboratory of death

    The revelations by +972 Magazine and Local Call have exposed the darkest core of the contemporary war in Gaza, in which genocide is carried out not only by bombs and missiles, but by data, algorithms and global digital platforms. The Israeli artificial intelligence system known as Lavender has confirmed what…

  • Islamic Revolution: 47 years of history, achievement, and permanent siege

    Islamic Revolution: 47 years of history, achievement, and permanent siege

    Forty-seven years after 1979, the Islamic Revolution of Iran remains one of the most explosive and most defamed events in contemporary history. It was not merely the overthrow of a corrupt monarchy. It was the rupture of a people with an imperialist system that treated Iran as a strategic colony.…

  • Between elephants and birds: The illusion of imperial invincibility

    Between elephants and birds: The illusion of imperial invincibility

    The narrative contained in Surah Al-Fil (105: 1–5), known as the Surah of “The Elephant”, remains one of the most symbolic passages of the Qur’an when it comes to reflecting on power, arrogance and the historical limits of domination. Far from being merely a religious episode, the Surah offers a…

  • “Board of Peace”: A parallel UN under absolute US hegemony

    “Board of Peace”: A parallel UN under absolute US hegemony

    Donald Trump’s announcement in Davos regarding the creation of a so-called “Board of Peace” is not a gesture of pacification, but an act of political engineering by US imperialism. It is a deliberate attempt to construct a parallel United Nations, emptied of any principle of sovereignty, international legality or genuine…

  • The decline of the imperialist strategy against Iran

    The decline of the imperialist strategy against Iran

    Between 28 December 2025, and 8 January 2026, Iran was hit by a series of attacks, terrorist sabotages, and violent actions within its territory. Explosions, targeted assassinations, attacks on infrastructure, and cyber operations left hundreds dead and a trail of destruction, deliberately creating a climate of fear and social instability.…

  • The recognition of Somaliland as an Israeli geopolitical weapon

    The recognition of Somaliland as an Israeli geopolitical weapon

    The recognition of the so-called Somaliland by Israel does not constitute a neutral diplomatic gesture nor a peripheral detail of its foreign policy. It is a deliberate political operation, embedded in a broader strategy of power projection by the Zionist state, aimed at legitimising unilateral processes of secession that corrode…

  • Al-Aqsa Flood: Two years of steadfastness and the will for liberation

    Al-Aqsa Flood: Two years of steadfastness and the will for liberation

    The document Our Narrative… Al-Aqsa Flood: Two Years of Steadfastness and the Will for Liberation, released by the Hamas Political Bureau on 24 December 2025, formulates an interpretation that definitively breaks with episodic readings or those grounded in the security logic of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. 7 October 2023 is understood…

  • Hamas at 38: The resistance to erasure continues

    Hamas at 38: The resistance to erasure continues

    The emergence of the Palestinian Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the course of the First Intifada, 38 years ago, must be understood within the historical context of an ongoing process of colonisation, military occupation and the systematic denial of rights to the Palestinian people. It was not an isolated episode nor…

  • The moral and political crisis of Zionism

    The moral and political crisis of Zionism

    Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has reached a level of brutality that places Israel and Zionism before their own moral, political, and legal abyss. For decades, the Zionist project has been denounced for its colonial, supremacist, and violent character. Nowadays, under Netanyahu and his far-right coalition, this violence has reached levels that…

  • UN delivers yet another stab in the back to the Palestinians

    UN delivers yet another stab in the back to the Palestinians

    The approval of Resolution 2803 by the UN Security Council, presented by the United States and endorsed by 13 votes in favour, with Russia and China abstaining, marks yet another shameful chapter in the long history of manipulation, selectivity, and abandonment of the Palestinian people by international structures that should…

  • The eternal Zionist contempt for agreements and peace

    The eternal Zionist contempt for agreements and peace

    Once again, the world witnesses the signing of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian resistance. And once again, history repeats itself. While some nourish hopes of reconstruction in Gaza, scepticism prevails among Palestinians, sustained by decades of betrayals. In fact, history shows that Israel has never honoured the…

  • The paradox of Arab money that destroys and rebuilds Gaza

    The paradox of Arab money that destroys and rebuilds Gaza

    There is a tragic irony in the Palestinian genocide: the Zionists kill Palestinians with Arab money and now intend to rebuild Gaza with funds from the very same source. This brutal contradiction encapsulates more than seven decades of political and moral submission by Arab dynasties that prefer the stability of…