The pioneering decolonial scientific theory in defense of the Palestinian capital
Today, in the field of contemporary political science, under the current genocide against the Palestinian people carried out through Israeli occupation, the Anti‑Colonialist Counter‑Geopolitical Theory of Al‑Quds emerges as an intellectual framework that challenges the hegemonic order. It places the Palestinian capital, under occupation since 1967, at the center of decolonization and the liberation of Palestine, and of the end of colonialism within the sphere of international relations in a multipolar world.
Broadcast from the studios of Radio Algeria International and within the framework of the tenth anniversary of the newspaper Al‑Quds Liberación, the think tank International Geopolitical Council on West Asia and Al‑Quds presented the Anti‑Colonialist Counter‑Geopolitical Theory of Al‑Quds (TCGAQ). It is the first open decolonial scientific model in International Relations in defense of the city of Al‑Quds (occupied East Jerusalem), developed by the geopolitical theory expert on West Asia, Abu Faisal Sergio Tapia.
Occupied West Bank and Al‑Quds (East Jerusalem) have, since 1967, been under the systematic criminal occupation of the Zionist entity, which commits war crimes. It must be recalled that more than 10,000 Palestinian homes and structures have been destroyed in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian capital. To this we must add the permanent attempt to destroy Palestinian homes. There is constant demolition, and more than 20,000 homes are at risk. In addition, there are mass evictions in strategic areas of neighborhoods such as Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah, which are fundamentally bastions in the sacred defense of the Al‑Aqsa Mosque. This mosque is the third holiest site in Islam for the Islamic Ummah and is protected under international law, but none of this matters to the occupation and its expansionist crimes.
In addition to this, there are the illegal settlements that surround the Palestinian capital in a strategic attempt to disconnect it from the occupied West Bank, seeking to ensure that there will never be a Palestinian state with Al‑Quds as its capital. This is possible because of the international double standard that has allowed the Israeli regime to do absolutely whatever it wants for decades, reducing international resolutions to mere scraps of paper. Today we see illegal settlers advancing over East Jerusalem. They have already begun building all these Zionist foundations that provoke and threaten the sovereignty over the sacred Al‑Aqsa Mosque. Moreover, they are already pushing ahead with the ongoing “Greater Jerusalem” expansionist project of the occupation regime, which aims at the total Judaization of the Palestinian capital, in full violation of international resolutions and within a world geopolitics that has been a complete failure.
It is for this reason that this theory is born: from the principle of defending the Palestinian capital, Al‑Quds, as a maxim capable of rising to the historical height of what a constant, criminal colonialism entails. Added to this is the killing of the Palestinian people. Here we see what this regime and all its ministers are capable of doing, as they constantly declare that they will annex 82% of the occupied West Bank and that there will never be a Palestinian capital. They have been occupying since 1967, and it is estimated that more than 48,000 Palestinian homes have been destroyed between the occupied West Bank and Al‑Quds. Finally, we must recall the apartheid roads, which seek to carve up the territory through “Project E1” so that illegal settlements are strengthened, such as Ma’ale Adumim, which already has more than 37,000 settlers and where new housing units for the occupation are constantly being promoted. This is the fundamental objective: the total isolation of the Palestinian capital.
The Counter‑Geopolitical Anti‑Colonialist Theory of Al‑Quds represents an epistemic rupture. It can be argued that it subverts classical European colonial geopolitics, which understands political science precisely as a tool of domination and justification for the crimes committed by the Israeli Zionist occupation regime with total impunity against the Palestinian people. This is not new, but has been the case for 78 years and even earlier, beginning with the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which gave the green light, on behalf of the British colonial power, to Zionist settlers to invade Palestinian territory and carry out systematic massacres as part of this colonial architecture up to the 21st century.
Today we see a multipolar order emerging and strengthened by recent events in the West Asia region. It is essential to integrate the idea that, if there is to be a new multipolar world order of the Global South, Palestine must be liberated with Al‑Quds as its capital. This is a foundational principle within world geopolitics. From this perspective, there is a rejection of the colonial nomenclature “Middle East,” which is still heard in Western media. That notion has been discarded even by the United Nations because it stems from a European colonialist vision. The United Nations correctly restored the name “West Asia,” in line with the perspective of the Global South and the justice of peoples.
The vision of the Counter‑Geopolitical Anti‑Colonialist Theory of Al‑Quds does not contemplate partial concessions or agreements supervised by the unipolar hegemonic power. Nor does it accept the occasional mechanisms designed to ensure that the criminal Israeli Zionist occupation regime continues to carry out its crimes, justifying and normalizing what is, in effect, genocide with total impunity. Every time the fate of Palestine or some new agreement is discussed, it has meant more death and destruction. When human rights or international law for the Palestinian people are invoked, they are met with absolute emptiness.
Therefore, this theory directly seeks to restore the full sovereignty of the Palestinian people. This is the only legitimate way forward toward a universal justice of peoples, as demanded by the Global South within the evolving balance of power of a multipolar world.
It is necessary to understand the geopolitical architecture of our time, in which we are witnessing the end of unipolar hegemony and the collapse of this expansionist and criminal project of the Zionist entity. The only path is a free Palestine with Al‑Quds as its capital, because this is demanded not only by all of humanity, but also by the memory of the Palestinian martyrs who call for an end to this long history of death and destruction. Finally, it should be noted that the Counter‑Geopolitical Anti‑Colonialist Theory of Al‑Quds recovers the historical memory of the Palestinian people to understand the struggle of a nation that has endured, and continues to endure, the worst atrocities at the hands of those who should be enforcing international law and instead do the exact opposite. They directly drop their bombs on children and women. Let us recall: more than 200,000 tons of explosives have been dropped on the Gaza Strip, equivalent to 13 Hiroshima atomic bombs, with total impunity. It seems that the lives of Palestinian children count for absolutely nothing within this “normality” of Western geopolitics. For a free and sovereign Palestine with Al‑Quds as its capital, in memory of all the martyrs of the Palestinian people.
The Counter‑Geopolitical Anti‑Colonialist Theory of Al‑Quds represents, as critical thought, an historic turning point for the social sciences and geopolitics, becoming the first theory of the decolonial current to formalize its principles through an unprecedented relational conceptual structure: the equation
[T = Q • (CG + A) / H]
This proposal marks a before and after for three fundamental reasons:
Innovative format: It breaks with the exclusively discursive form of decolonial studies by resorting to a schematic systematization typical of the exact sciences, but oriented toward the liberation of peoples rather than territorial domination.
Rigorous language: It equips the analysis of dynamics such as sovereignty, resistance and hegemony with a rigorous and replicable language, concepts traditionally handled as purely abstract categories.
Inversion of tools: It reverses the use of formal tools that Western geopolitics had historically reserved to justify occupation and colonial control.
The model does not constitute a statistical prediction, but rather a heuristic instrument:
T (Anti‑Colonial Transformation): Degree of geopolitical emancipation and progress toward multipolarity.
Q (Al‑Quds Factor): Symbolic and strategic core that catalyzes the identity and historical consciousness of resistance.
CG (Counter‑Geopolitics) + A (Alliance Action): The sum of active resistance, sovereign diplomacy and cooperation among the peoples of the Global South.
H (Unipolar Hegemony): Structural frictional force representing the apparatuses of economic, media and military coercion of the dominant powers.
Scientific validity recognized under international standards
The theory has passed a rigorous Open Peer Review process and has been endorsed by a Doctor of Political Science and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, in accordance with UNESCO’s Open Science guidelines. It has been deposited with permanent DOI registration in high‑security international repositories such as Zenodo (CERN), Figshare and Harvard Dataverse, guaranteeing its preservation and universal access.
With this assessment, the Al‑Quds Theory is consolidated as a scientific model valid for International Relations, Political Science and Decolonial Studies, officially founding a new global school of thought: Counter‑Geopolitical Anti‑Colonialism.
Three pillars for a more just international order
The theory structures its analysis and proposed course of action around three guiding axes:
Al‑Quds as a Node of Global Resistance: The situation of the occupied city is not a secondary territorial dispute, but the moral and political barometer of the viability of any just multipolar order.
Digital and Technological Sovereignty: Autonomy in data and telecommunications infrastructures is an indispensable condition for breaking the structural dependency of the Global South.
Media Decolonization: In the face of the “informational hollowing out” that erases the colonial context of news coverage, it proposes the construction of alternative networks aligned with processes of liberation.
Autonomous production from the Global South
The launch deliberately dispenses with external validation from Eurocentric academic circuits, reaffirming the capacity of the Global South to generate, regulate and certify its own knowledge paradigms. It draws on the teachings of anticolonial thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Ghassan Kanafani, updated for the challenges of the 21st century.
The full publication —which includes the theoretical framework and the scientific arbitration records— is made openly available to researchers, students and social movements around the world. The International Geopolitical Council will immediately begin its distribution to universities, think tanks and public diplomacy bodies in Latin America, Africa and West Asia.
Final analysis
The theory does not offer half measures: it asserts that the only legitimate outcome is the full restoration of Palestinian sovereignty with Al‑Quds as its capital. It does not propose cosmetic reforms or agreements supervised by the hegemonic power: it demands an end to colonialism, apartheid and the policy of extermination that, in its view, have become part of Western “normality.” What is at stake, it claims, is not only the future of Palestine, but also the credibility of any project of international justice.
A communiqué of Counter‑Geopolitical intellect
Read through a journalistic lens, the Al‑Quds Theory is at once theory and communiqué of Counter‑Geopolitical Anti‑Colonialism. It identifies those responsible, denounces underlying structures, presents itself as a tool of intellectual commitment and calls for the remapping of the world from Al‑Quds outward. It does not seek to please diplomatic salons or fit within the comfortable categories of traditional academia; it is born to unsettle, to force uncomfortable questions and to remind us that every geopolitical concept has a concrete body behind it that suffers or resists.
With this forcefulness, the theory leaves its mark: in the history of ideas on Palestine and on global coloniality, there will be a before and after this attempt to turn the occupied Palestinian capital into the formal axis of a new school of thought. Whatever comes next —acceptance, criticism, rejection, expansion— will be part of the struggle. But the Anti‑Colonialist Counter‑Geopolitical Theory of Al‑Quds has already made its position clear: for a free and sovereign Palestine with Al‑Quds as its capital, and for an international order that no longer measures human dignity according to geopolitical convenience.
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